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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The presidential inaugural poet--and unforgettable new voice in American poetry--presents a collection of poems that includes the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in next door--well, that's a different kind of problem. In these and twenty-two other short stories and poems, readers plumb the inner lives of African American teenage boys.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master's degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural department at...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Edgar Allan Poe, whose poetry is known for its lonely and macabre themes, songlike rhythms, and sense of longing"--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
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