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Lemonade war series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Explores the distinctive power of poetry and love--fourth grade style--
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Horrible Harry volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
12) Skylark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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Angie lives in an old car with her brother and mother. Homeless after their father left to find work, the family struggles to stay together and live as normally as possible. It is difficult though. Between avoiding the police and finding new places to park each night, it is a constant struggle. When Angie discovers slam poetry, she finds a new way to express herself and find meaning and comfort in a confusing world.
14) Animals in pants
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"What? You've never seen animals in pants? A dog in yoga pants, a goat in overalls, a yak in slacks? Animals in Pants presents a parade of impeccable poems about animals wearing perfectly pressed pants." -- inside front jacket flap.
Simple, humorous poems featuring a variety of animals wearing different kinds of pants.
15) The song of us
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"Love at first sight isn't a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it's fate. Olivia is a capital-P Poet, and Eden thinks she wants to be a musician one day, but for now she's just the new girl. And then Eden shows up to Poetry Club and everything changes. Eden isn't out, and she has rules for dating Olivia: don't call. Don't tell her friends. And don't let anyone know they're together. But when jealousy creeps in, it's Olivia's words that push...
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Gooney Bird volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
19) Out of the dust
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.