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2022., ABDO Kids Call No: 973.932 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Abdo kids jumbo.Summary Note: This title introduces young readers to Amanda Gorman, best known as the first Youth Poet Laureate and for her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb." Readers will enjoy learning about Gorman's early years, education, bibliography, and many accomplishments. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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Primary Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History maker biographiesSummary Note: This title introduces young readers to Amanda Gorman, best known as the first Youth Poet Laureate and for her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb." Readers will enjoy learning about Gorman's early years, education, bibliography, and many accomplishments. Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
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By Dove, Rita2004., W.W. Norton Call No: 811 DOV Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate, Rita Dove depicting the many aspects of her cultural heritage.
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By Carroll, Jim1987, c1978., Penguin Books Call No: MEMOIR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A diary of the author's early teen years in the mid-1960s, telling how he progressed from sniffing glue to shooting heroin while playing basketball for Trinity High School in Manhattan.
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1999, c1995., Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Autobiographical poems capture a thirteen-year-old boy's feelings, experiences, and aspirations in one tumultuous year of his life.
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c1995., Juvenile, Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press Call No: 92 HOPKINS Middle School Library Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Autobiographical poems capture a thirteen-year-old boy's feelings, experiences, and aspirations in one tumultuous year of his life.
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1984., Bell Engerprises, Inc. Call No: 921 WHEATLEY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Black heroes and heroines.Summary Note: A biography of the African American poetess with her works included.
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c2003, University Press of America Call No: 811 .52099287 0896073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a critical assessment of the creative achievements of five African-American women poets of the Harlem Renaissance, including Georgia Douglas Johnson, Anne Spencer, Helen Johnson, Gwen Bennett, and Angelina Grimke, and includes discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
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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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c1999., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B SANDBURG Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.
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c2003., Harcourt Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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c2003., Pre-adolescent, Harcourt Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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2003, Juvenile, Harcourt Call No: 921 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This book traces the life of the American poet, journalist, and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
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1998, c1994., Juvenile, Putnam & Grosset Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes some of the boyhood experiences that influenced the development of the African-American poet Langston Hughes.
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By Harjo, Joyc2012., W. W. Norton Call No: NL B HAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown & Co. Call No: B DAV Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Depicts the life of Dave, a slave in South Carolina during the 1800s, and describes the laborious process of creating his pottery. Presents the revealing poetry that he inscribed on his works despite threats to his life by a society that discouraged his artistry. Includes color illustrations and a photo of five of his works.
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2010., Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.
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2010., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-nineteenth century a slave known to us only as Dave made beautiful large pots out of the Carolina clay, shaping them with wheel and coil, and signing some with a poem. Hill's poem and Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations show the making of such a pot, step by step, from the gathering and the mixing of the clay, through pulling the pot up from the mound on his wheel, finishing with coils and finally glaze.
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2010., Primary, Little, Brown Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the life of Dave, a nineteenth-century slave who went on to become an influential poet, artist, and potter.