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1) Fallout
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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After the death of her sister, Tara struggles to deal with her guilt through slam poetry
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman.
4) Cyrano
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant seventeenth-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
" ... a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help each other survive loss and recapture love"--Dust jacket.
From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help one another survive loss and recapture love.Teddy is a gifted dog. Raised in a cabin by a poet named Sylvan, he grew up listening to sonnets read aloud and the comforting clicking of a keyboard....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
7) The poet X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Description
THE POET X - a stunning New York Times bestseller with a powerful and unforgettable YA voice. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi's The Children of Blood and Bone, Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and Sarah Crossan's One. Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets - her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the...
8) Fly away
Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While in North Dakota helping her Aunt Frankie prepare for a possible flood, Lucy finds her voice as a poet with the help of her two-year-old brother Teddy, the rest of their family, and a few cows.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her...
11) The Visit
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Description
Describes, in verse, how Clement Moore composed and recited for the first time a poem which came to be known as "The Night Before Christmas," as a Christmas gift for his ailing daughter in 1822.
12) Rest Easy
Author
Pub. Date
20211026
Description
Heartsick from the death of his mother and heartsore from breaking up with his girlfriend, Dee Warrington is barely getting by. Eccentric with mad style, Naya's had straight A's since the seventh grade, and when she makes a pinky promise, she means it.
Both find themselves at Salvation Hill Nursing Home, volunteering during their summer break. There they meet Marie Delden--- a former aspiring poet with a mysterious backstory. As Dee and Naya...