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By Steven Herrick. 2000
Billy runs away from an unhappy family situation to set up house in an abandoned freight car. The story is…
revealed in alternating verse, describing the innermost thoughts of the three main characters: 16-year-old Billy; Caitlin, the wealthy townie with whom he forms a bond; and Old Bill, the lawyer-turned-alcoholic hobo to whom Billy reaches out - and who gives Billy an astonishing gift in return. For senior high readers. 2004, c2000.By Edgar Allan Poe. 1963
By Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess. 2017
New York Times bestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything…
not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure, and tragedy, including the loss of his mother. The one true light is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her parents have forbidden their relationship, assuming Blade will become just like his father. In reality, the only thing Blade and Rutherford have in common is the music that lives inside them. And songwriting is all Blade has left after Rutherford, while drunk, crashes his high school graduation speech and effectively rips Chapel away forever. But when a long-held family secret comes to light, the music disappears. In its place is a letter, one that could bring Blade the freedom and love he's been searching for, or leave him feeling even more adrift. "A contemporary hero's journey, brilliantly told."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A rhythmic, impassioned ode to family, identity, and the history of rock and roll." -Booklist, starred review "Many readers will identify with Blade's struggle to find his place in a family where he feels like an outsider." -Publishers Weekly "The authentic character development and tone will strike a chord with young adults." -School Library JournalBy Ibi Aanu Zoboi. 2020
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as…
disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his storyBy Jason Reynolds. 2017
A novel in verse. Fifteen-year-old Will sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting. As he proceeds, Will encounters…
several ghosts in the elevator that reveal truths about their way of life. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2017By Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess. 2017
A novel in verse. Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his rock-star…
father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2017By 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. 2013By Gertrude Stein. 2003
Two of Stein's most recognizable works are together in one volume. "Three Lives, " Stein's most accessible work, is the…
psychological portrait of three immigrant women and their lives in a new country. "Tender Buttons" is a collection of prose poems which employ repetitive sentences and simple language to build images. OriginalBy Lesléa Newman, Leslea Newman. 2012
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay…
college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. Violence and strong language. Award winnerBy Alan Barnard, Hugh Brewster. 2009
Presents facts learned from fossilized evidence of dinosaur species that roamed the North American continent millions of years ago, like…
the Stegosaurus of Colorado. Discusses size, eating habits, head crests, skull shapes, tail clubs, raptor claws, and dinosaur descendants. For grades 3-6. 2009By Stephen Crane, J. C. Levenson. 1996
More than one hundred works of the nineteenth-century author and reporter Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Includes five novellas; dispatches from Asbury…
Park, New Jersey, and New York state; war reports from Greece during the Greco-Turkish wars and from Cuba during the Spanish-American War; and poetry. 1984By J. R. R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien. 2004
A collection of Christmas letters penned by J.R.R. Tolkien and signed as Father Christmas that were sent to Tolkien's children…
from 1920-1943. Each recapped activities of the preceding year at the North Pole, including reindeer running amok and the North Polar Bear breaking the moon into four pieces. 2004By Richard Peck, Henry Cole, Kim Norman, Kimberly E. Norman. 2003
Illinois, 1861. Tilly Pruitt's mother accepts two mysterious young women from New Orleans, Delphine and Calinda, as boarders in the…
early Civil War days. Fifteen-year-old Tilly finds them fascinating, but townspeople think they are Confederate spies. Their secrets emerge after Tilly's brother, a Union army soldier, is wounded. For grades 6-9. 2003By Unknown, Helen Gardner. 1972
By Bill Henderson, Pushcart Prize Editors. 1995
Sixty selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial presses and magazines. This twentieth-anniversary edition features up-and-coming…
authors as well as such literary figures as John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. Selections include a canto from Robert Pinsky's translation of Dante's "Inferno" and Eileen Pollack's "Milk." Descriptions of sex and some strong languageFirst published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1964
Longfellow (1807-1882) was a very fashionable poet in his day as well as in twentieth-century America. These selections, which represent…
the romantic and lyrical side of Longfellow and show his skill in writing novella in verse form, include "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Children's Hour," "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and selections from "The Song of Hiawatha."By Langston Hughes, Langston Huges. 1958
By Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim. 1982
A mixed-up German couple on vacation in Asia ponders the political situation back home and agonizes over the pros and…
cons of having a baby. A satire of the German character contrasting Germany's shrinking population with the teeming billions of the Third World