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The crossover (The Crossover Series)
By Kwame Alexander. 2014
Twin fourteen-year-old basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court, as their father…
ignores his declining health. Told in hip-hop style verse. For senior high and older readers. 2014The candy smash (The Lemonade War Series #4)
By Jacqueline Davies. 2013
As Valentine's Day approaches and a crush on a classmate develops, Evan develops a secret fondness for writing poetry. But…
his sister Jessie plans on exposing all in her newspaper. Sequel to The Bell Bandit (DB 74601). For grades 3-6. 2013Words with wings
By Nikki Grimes. 2013
When Gabby's parents separate, her tendency to daydream becomes essential to coping with life's difficulties, which only increase when she…
moves with her mother to a new home and a new school. For grades 3-6Rumble
By Ellen Hopkins. 2014
Matthew Turner doesn't have faith in anything. Not in family, which is falling apart after his younger brother's suicide. Not…
in friends who turn their backs. Not in a creator who lets bad things happen. No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about faith and forgiveness, there's no way he will forgive those he blames. He's decided to "live large and go out with a huge bang". But when a horrific event plunges Matt into a dark place, he hears a rumble that wakes him up. For junior and senior high readers. UnratedThe sound of letting go
By Stasia Ward Kehoe. 2014
At seventeen, Daisy feels imprisoned by her brother Steven's autism and its effects and her only escape is through her…
trumpet into the world of jazz, but when her parents decide to send Steven to an institution she is not ready to let him go. For junior and senior highThis full house (Make Lemonade Trilogy)
By Virginia Euwer Wolff. 2009
Seventeen-year-old LaVaughn advances her plans for college by accepting admission into a women-in-medical-science program and befriending her mentor, Dr. Moore.…
Although LaVaughn helps her friend Jolly solve Jolly's mysterious past, LaVaughn's academic future becomes uncertain. Sequel to True Believer (DB 52298). For senior high and older readers. 2009Walking the Choctaw road: Stories from the Heart and Memory of the People
By Tim Tingle, Norma Howard. 2003
Twelve traditional stories reflecting the history and beliefs of the Choctaw nation spanning almost two centuries of tribal life. "Saltypie"…
is Tingle's own story of his family's close bond with his blind grandmother. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2003Bronx masquerade
By Nikki Grimes, Christopher Myers. 2002
Tough students at a Bronx high school reveal their innermost thoughts, dreams, and fears during the monthly English class's Open-Mike…
Fridays. Through their expressions of rap, free verse, and rhymes, the students learn they are more alike than they are different. For junior and senior high readers. Coretta Scott King Award. 2002Turtle Island: tales of the Algonquian nations
By Jane Louise Curry, James Watts. 1999
Collection of twenty-seven tales with an introduction to Algonquian Indian culture; describes variations among the group's numerous tribes, which are…
found in the eastern United States and Canada. The title story recounts how a turtle's back became the Earth's foundation after a great flood. For grades 4-7. 1999The double life of Pocahontas
By Ed Young, Jean Fritz. 1983
A biography of the famous American Indian princess emphasizes her lifelong admiration of John Smith and the difficulties she faced…
as an Indian princess married to an Englishman. For grades 4-7 to share with older readersHate that cat: A Novel
By Sharon Creech. 2008
Jack continues his study of poetry begun with Miss Stretchberry last school year in Love That Dog (BR 14137). Although…
he still misses his dog Sky, he writes poems about other things: words, sounds, silence, his mother's hand signs, and cats. A novel in verse. For grades 4-7. 2008Preschool, here i come! (Here I Come!)
By D. J Steinberg. 2020
A book for all preschoolers-to-be from the author of Kindergarten, Here I Come! From saying goodbye to parents on the…
very first day of school to watching butterflies hatch in spring, D. J. Steinberg celebrates all the landmark moments of preschool. Because the year is full of so many firsts, this collection of funny, joyful poems is a must-have for all small scholars in the makingWhen The Teacher isn't Looking: And Other Funny School Poems (Giggle Poetry)
By Kenn Nesbitt, Mike Gordon. 2005
Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from the Heart and Memory of the People
By Tim Tingle, Norma Howard. 2003
Oklahoma, or "Okla Homma," is a Choctaw word meaning "Red People." In this collection, acclaimed storyteller Tim Tingle tells the…
stories of his people, the Choctaw People, the Okla Homma. For years, Tim has collected stories of the old folks, weaving traditional lore with stories from everyday life. Walking the Choctaw Road is a mixture of myth stories, historical accounts passed from generation to generation, and stories of Choctaw people living their lives in the here and now.The Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers selected Tim as "Contemporary Storyteller Of The Year" for 2001, and in 2002, Tim was the featured storyteller at the National Storyteller Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee.Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake, Texas.When The Teacher isn't Looking: And Other Funny School Poems (Giggle Poetry)
By Kenn Nesbitt, Mike Gordon. 2005
When The Teacher isn't Looking: And Other Funny School Poems (Giggle Poetry)
By Kenn Nesbitt, Mike Gordon. 2005
Pasquala: The Story of a California Indian Girl
By Gail Faber, Michele Lasagna. 1990
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on the shores of Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and…
the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.Love That Dog: A Novel
By Sharon Creech. 2001
With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author Sharon Creech tells a story with enormous heart. Written as a…
series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own voice with the help of a teacher, a writer, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog. With classic poetry included in the back matter, this provides the perfect resource for teachers and students alike. "I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that." Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments—and Jack can't avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say.Two Hawk Dreams
By Lawrence L. Loendorf, Nancy Medaris Stone. 2014
Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk’s father…
and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk’s mating call for only seven seasons, too few to be old enough to hunt.So begins another day for a boy of the Tukudika (Sheep Eater) Shoshones, living in the traditional ways in what will one day be known as Yellowstone National Park. Two Hawk is learning those ways, accompanied by his dog, Gypsum, and a talkative magpie whose secrets only Two Hawk can hear. His adventures, beautifully illustrated by Davíd Joaquín, show Two Hawk, and the reader, the meaning of rituals and responsibilities and the mystical origins of Two Hawk’s name. Only the appearance of the hairy-face man who crosses paths with Two Hawk’s family suggests the vast changes that are soon to shake the Shoshones’ world.When You Never Said Goodbye: A Novel in Poems and Journal Entries
By Meg Kearney. 2017
Against the odds, eighteen-year-old Liz McLane, adoptee and aspiring poet, searches for her birth mother in this sensitive and daring…
novel told through her own accessible and moving poems and journal entries. A student at NYU in Greenwich Village, Liz McLane is pursuing her dream of becoming a poet and, at the same time, determined to find her birth mother, no matter what the results may be. Through her journals, Liz records her struggle to navigate adoption bureaucracy and laws. In spare and poignant poems, she confides her fears and her prayers. Could her birth mother be the unknown guitarist in Washington Square Park, who sings a soulful song in a strangely familiar voice? Against a backdrop of college life—classes on Alice Munro and Billy Collins and an active social life—and with the help of her sister, friends, and a private investigator, Liz summons the courage to face the truth about her mother and herself. This is an unforgettable novel full of heart that addresses the primary questions all adoptees must answer for themselves: who was the woman who gave me life, and why did she decide to give me away? Based on author Meg Kearney’s own experiences.