Filter By Subjects
African Americans Biography Child musicians Biography Juvenile poetry Children's poetry, American Jewish children in the Holocaust Ukraine Juvenile poetry JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General Pianists Poetry Poets, American Poets, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature Women Biography Women pianists Biography Juvenile poetryFilter By Authors
Crews, Nina Farkas, J. M. Gregson, Susan R. Hood, Susan Meltzer, Milton Slade, SuzanneFilter By Subjects
African Americans Biography Child musicians Biography Juvenile poetry Children's poetry, American Jewish children in the Holocaust Ukraine Juvenile poetry JUVENILE NONFICTION / Poetry / General Pianists Poetry Poets, American Poets, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature Women Biography Women pianists Biography Juvenile poetryFilter By Authors
Crews, Nina Farkas, J. M. Gregson, Susan R. Hood, Susan Meltzer, Milton Slade, SuzanneCrews, Nina
Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography that tells the story of one of America's most celebrated children's book authors, Virginia Hamilton, the first African American to win the Newbery Medal"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAMGregson, Susan R.
Summary: Examines the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book, discussing her early life as a slave in Boston in the 1700s, the education and kind treatment she received from her owners, her experiences after being granted her freedom, and her later years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bridgestone Books 2002
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WHEATLEY GREFarkas, J. M.
Summary: "A lyrical picture book biography about American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's childhood and the two sisters who inspired her Good things come in threes, like peas like wishes like sisters. Vincent-American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay-began writing andpublishing poetry as a child. She grew up in coastal Maine with her two sisters and plenty of books, music, and nature, but often without...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MILMeltzer, Milton
Summary: Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DICHood, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Slade, Suzanne
Summary: Introduces the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks, from her early love of poetry and her first published poems as a girl in Chicago through her financial struggles as an adult during the Depression to winning the Pulitzer Prize for her second book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2020