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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking inspiration from the unsung women poets of the era, Grimes uses the "Golden Shovel" poetry method to create original poems drawn from the words of ... groundbreaking...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Includes a selection of poems by American poets and works of art by a variety of artists. A collection of well-known poems, from Ogden Nash to Walt Whitman, with accompanying illustrations that also represent a wide range of artists and styles. A number of garden poems are matched with beautiful color reproductions of famous paintings. Includes a selection of poems by American poets and works of art by a variety of artists
12) Marianne Moore
Author
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the American poet and presents some of her poems
13) E. E. Cummings
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 20th-century American writer E. E. Cummings, whose poetry is known for its combination of innovative, artistic style and traditional rhyme and meter"--
14) Emily Dickinson
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Emily Dickinson, whose poetry is known for its emotional depth as well as its unconventional rhythms and structure"--
15) Sylvia Plath
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the troubled woman whose literary achievements were cut short by her suicide at age thirty, interspersed with examples of her poetry.
18) Walt Whitman
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 19th-century American writer Walt Whitman, whose poetry is known for both its passionate celebration of American life and its direct, speechlike style"--
20) Langston Hughes
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Series
Publisher
Creative Education
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the life and work of 20th-century American writer Langston Hughes, whose poetry is known for its accounts of the African American experience and its call to racial equality"--
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