Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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2000, c1994., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: B KEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
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-- "Beauty in words"[2010]., Adolescent, Enslow Publishers Call No: 811 BUC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Poetry rocks!Summary Note: Contains biographical profiles of eleven early American poets, including Anne Bradstreet, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Emily Dickinson, and includes examples and analyses of their writing.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: 811 .4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free ..." Before Emma Lazarus wrote the final lines to her poem, the Statue of Liberty was known only as a gift of friendship from France to the United States. As Lazarus's words grew famous and stirred the nation, the statue came to be seen as the mother of immigrants, her torch a lamp held out to welcome them.
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2010., Primary, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the inspiration for and history of Emma Lazarus' sonnet which is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty's plaque.
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2010., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.
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c2007., Mitchell Lane Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: A Robbie Reader.Summary Note: Presents a brief biography of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to America's national anthem.
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2019., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Whitman and Lincoln shared the national stage in Washington, DC, during the Civil War. Though the two men never met, Whitman would often see Lincoln's carriage on the road. The president was never far from the poet's mind, and Lincoln's "grace under pressure" was something Whitman returned to again and again in his poetry. Whitman witnessed Lincoln's second inauguration and mourned along with America as Lincoln's funeral train wound its way across the landscape to his final resting place. This book tells the story of one of America's greatest poets and how he was inspired by one of America's greatest presidents.
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-- Remarkable story of George Moses HortonBy Tate, Don2015., Pre-adolescent, Peachtree Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As a boy, George Moses Horton taught himself to read, and "words loosened the chains of bondage." During six decades of enslavement, he became a poet and the first African American published in the South.
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1994, Juvenile, Abdo Call No: 811 Kal Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Famous illustrated speeches & documents
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2004., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.
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2004, Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse.