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[2021]., Viking Call No: 811.6 Gor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains a collection of poems by former National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, discussing issues of racism, the COVID-19 pandemic, identity, and national and personal history.
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2021., Viking Call No: 811 GOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future"--Jacket flap.
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2021., Adult, Lumen Call No: 811 GOR Edition: Primera edicio?n. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Ante la mirada de un mundo sobrecogido tras la invasio?n del Capitolio de los Estados Unidos, Amanda Gorman tomo? la palabra a continuacio?n del presidente Joe Biden. Era la poeta ma?s joven que recitaba en una ceremonia de investidura, como antes lo hicieron Robert Frost o Maya Angelou, y cautivo? a millones de personas que vei?an en ella la luz de una esperanza, y en los versos de La colina que ascendemos la inauguracio?n de una nueva era."--
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c2004, Pre-adolescent, Front Street Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Fortune was a slave who lived in Waterbury, Conn., in the late 1700s. He was married and the father of 4 children. When Fortune died in 1798, his master, Dr. Porter, preserved his skeleton to further the study of anatomy. Now the skeleton is in the Mattatuck Museum where it is still being studied.
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c2004., Adolescent, Front Street Call No: 811.54 Nel Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a short requiem poem in honor of an early African-American slave, Fortune. A biographical sketch accompanies the poem which offers images of the body and bones of Fortune.
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2008., Juvenile, Wordsong Call No: 811.5 NEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Born the prince of Dukandarra, Guinea, Broteer Furro was captured by slave traders at age six. As Broteer stepped off the African continent and onto a cargo ship bound for Rhode Island, the vessel's steward purchased the boy and gave him a new name: Venture. The young man crossed the Atlantic Ocean, landed in Narragansett, and worked through three decades of slavery to buy not only his own freedom but also the freedom of his wife and children. Remarkable in his own time for his Ambition and physical stature, Venture Smith would become known to history as the first man to document both his capture from Africa and life as an American slave. Poems by Marilyn Nelson sit opposite the text of Venture Smith's own narrative.
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c2004., Holiday House Call No: Poetry Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
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[2022]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 811 ACE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, award -winning author and poet Elizabeth Acevedo celebrates the beauty and meaning of natural Black hair, her words vibrantly illustrated by artist Andrea Pippins. This powerful book embraces all the complexities of Afro-Latinidad-the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance."--
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-- TeachingBooks original author programsBy Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline. Coming on home soon Woodson, Jacqueline. Show way Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's boys Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly Woodson, Jacqueline. Other side Woodson, Jacqueline. Maizon at Blue Hill Woodson, Jacqueline. I hadn't meant to tell you this Woodson, Jacqueline. Lena Woodson, Jacquelin2007., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief movie featuring Jacqueline Woodson talking about writing her books, as well as four additional movies of Woodson reading from her books. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Woodson's website.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programsBy Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline. Coming on home soon Woodson, Jacqueline. Show way Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's boys Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly Woodson, Jacqueline. Other side Woodson, Jacqueline. Maizon at Blue Hill Woodson, Jacqueline. I hadn't meant to tell you this Woodson, Jacqueline. Lena Woodson, Jacquelin2007., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Genre: Historical fiction Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief movie featuring Jacqueline Woodson talking about writing her books, as well as four additional movies of Woodson reading from her books. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Woodson's website.
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-- TeachingBooks original author programsBy Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion Woodson, Jacqueline. Coming on home soon Woodson, Jacqueline. Show way Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle's boys Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers Woodson, Jacqueline. If you come softly Woodson, Jacqueline. Other side Woodson, Jacqueline. Maizon at Blue Hill Woodson, Jacqueline. I hadn't meant to tell you this Woodson, Jacqueline. Lena Woodson, Jacquelin2007., Adult, Teachingbooks.net Click here to watch Summary Note: Page includes a brief movie featuring Jacqueline Woodson talking about writing her books, as well as four additional movies of Woodson reading from her books. Also includes a movie transcript, an in-depth written interview, a comprehensive bibliography, and a collection of relevant off-site links, including Woodson's website.
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By Glenn, Melc1997., Adolescent, Lodestar Books Call No: 811 GLE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a high school basketball team's season through a series of poems reflecting the feelings of students, their families, teachers, and coaches.
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c2008., Juvenile, Wordsong Call No: 811 HOL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the feelings and struggles of two teens who express their friendship and love in poetry to one another.
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c2009., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: 811 REY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, a collaborative team of artist and poet, chronicle their experiences upon moving to New York to pursue their art.
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[2019]., Juvenile, Wordsong, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT B GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring memoir that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards - ordinary and extraordinary - of her life"--Amazon.
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2002., Holt Call No: Poetry Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.
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-- Who I amc2010., Adolescent, Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Call No: 808.81 99283 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
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-- Poems for you, my pretty[2014]., Juvenile, Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 811 HEP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving depiction of young women, society, and our expectations. Poisoned Apples is a dark, clever, witty, beautiful, and important book for teenage girls, their sisters, their mothers, and their best friends.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Zoboi Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.
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2020., Juvenile, Disney/Jump at the Sun Call No: Realistic 811 Ell Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)