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Series
Emily Dickinson mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of her ever-important job interview at the Dickinson home in Amherst, Massachusetts. When she arrived late, disheveled with her skirts sodden and filthy, she'd lost...
22) One crazy summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
23) The poet's dog
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking inspiration from the unsung women poets of the era, Grimes uses the "Golden Shovel" poetry method to create original poems drwan from the words of ... groundbreaking...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds’s debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired. Back in the day, there was a heckuva party, a jam, for a word-making man. The King of Letters. Langston Hughes. His ABCs became drums, bumping jumping thumping like a heart the size of the whole country. They sent some people yelling...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
"Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air." —Nora Krug, The Washington Post
"Beautiful and haunting." —Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY
"Deeply affecting...simultaneously heartbreaking and funny." —People (Book of the Week)
"Vivid, immediate." —Laura Collins-Hughes, The...
29) Lit: a memoir
Author
Language
English
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Description
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Christian Science Monitor • Slate • St. Louise Post-Dispatch • Cleveland Plain Dealer • Seattle Times • NBCC Award Finalist
Mary Karr's unforgettable sequel to
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of silence. His mother and father often sat in the same room but exchanged no words. He and his siblings learned, without being told, that certain thoughts and feelings were not to be shared. On the evenings his father didn't come home, the rest of the family would eat dinner without him, his whereabouts unknown, his absence pronounced but unspoken. And on a cold night just before Christmas...
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