Hood, Susan
Summary: "An inspirational nonfiction novel-in-verse about Zhanna Arshanskaya, a young Ukrainian Jewish girl using the alias Anna, whose phenomenal piano-playing skills saved her life and the life of her sister, Frina, during the Holocaust-from award-winning author Susan Hood, with Zhanna's son, Greg Dawson"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARSLatham, Irene
Summary: This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LATEverson, Caroline
Summary: "In fourteen gentle stanzas, sleepy & dash-eyed children throughout history draw comfort from bedtime tales and tender lullabies. Here, their innate curiosity about the world around them is satisfied by timeless music that drifts through centuries on the wind. Loving parents sing of white polar bears, northern lights, sea creatures, and woodland animals that dance under the stars and visit each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fifth House Publishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 EVEKooser, Ted
Summary: "A freewheeling romp through the world of imagery and metaphor, this quietly startling collection of thirty poems, framed by the four elements, is about art and reality, fact and fancy. Look around: what do you see? A clown balancing a pie in a tree, or an empty nest perched on a leafless branch? As poet Connie Wanek alludes to in her afterword--a lively dialogue with former US Poet Laureate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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Summary: Award-winning illustrator Charles Santore perfectly captures the delight of Santa's wondrous visit with unforgettable images that are sure to enchant young believers--and older ones--for Christmas Eves to come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applesauce Press, an imprint of Cider Mill Press Book Publishers 2011
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD MOOWolf, Allan
Summary: Hang on tight for a raucous bounce through the solar system and back -- propelled by funny, fanciful, factually sound poems and exuberant illustrations. The universe poured into me. My brain was overloaded. It smoked and glowed red-hot. And then it actually exploded. Ever wonder what the sun has to say about being the closest star to Earth? Or what Pluto has gotten up to since being demoted to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 808 WOLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 WOLLewis, J. Patrick
Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEWHopkins, Lee Bennett/ Manning, Jane (ILT)
Summary: Here is the library, not just as a place that houses books, but as an experience. Fifteen poems celebrate the thrill of getting your first library card, the excitement of story hour, the fun of using the computer, the pride of reading to the dog, and thejoy of discovering that the librarian understands you and knows exactly which books you'll love. The poems, compiled by noted poet and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HOPMora, Pat
Summary: "An inspiring collection of the author's own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, singing, and storytelling. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used in the poems"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 MORElliott, David
Summary: Chronologically organized by epoch, this poetic introduction to the dinosaur world illuminates a host of creatures both novel and familiar, ranging from the mysterious trilobite to the famed Tyrannosaurus rex. Includes dinosaur facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018
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Summary: Learn vital processes and procedures about gardening through different types of poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 WOLAnderson, Laurie Halse
Summary: Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Anderson 2019Perkins, Useni Eugene
Summary: Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins. Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really are? Do you know you can be, What you want to be, If you try to be What you can be? This lyrical, empowering poem celebrates black children and seeks to inspire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG PERMartin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica)
Summary: "A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARAda, Alma Flor
Summary: Simple poems and glorious paintings offer a deeply moving portrait of migrant Chicano farmworker families at work and play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Bulion, Leslie
Summary: "...Galápagos tells the complex story of a young volcanic ecosystem influenced by seasonal ocean currents, where food energy moves through integrated land and sea communities, each in its own season of growth and renewal. Millions of years ago, undersea volcanos in the eastern Pacific Ocean erupted, spewing up lava, rocks, and ash that eventually formed a cluster of islands: the archipelago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577.5 BULPerry, Andrea
Summary: Short poems describe crazy inventions, like footsie floss, an upside-down lens for bats, and a super spider spotter for Miss Muffet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Poetry PerryCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PERHerrera, Juan Felipe
Summary: "When Juan Felipe Herrera was very young, he picked flowers, helped his mama feed the chickens, slept under the starry sky, and learned to say goodbye to his amiguitos each time his migrant family moved on. When he grew up, Juan Felipe Herrera became a poet. His breathtaking poem "Imagine" and Lauren Castillo's evocative illustrations will speak to every reader and dreamer searching for this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Summary: A collection of poems celebrating animals, from weasels to hammerhead sharks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 FLOEsbensen, Barbara Juster.
Summary: A collection of poems that celebrates the seasons, with illustrations for each season by a different Minnesota artist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811.54 ESBHughes, Langston
Summary: "Dream Variation," one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares...An African-American boy faces the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice, but he dreams of a different life--one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Hughes 2017Berry, James
Summary: Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood, written by the late Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry. -- provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana Publishing 2020