poetry

The animals and plants of the rainforest come alive in this adaptation of the song "The Green Grass Grew All Around." Includes factual sidebars and a rainforest cookie recipe.

A collection of original poems that celebrate family, universal childhood experiences, and the pure pleasure a young girl feels as her mastery and understanding grow throughout the seasons of a year.

"Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses in bloom to pigeons in flight, from tigers at the zoo to October leaves falling. A joyful celebration of a young girl's childhood"--Provided by publisher.

"With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a young girl, who, in the absence of a nurturing guide, makes her own stumbling way towards womanhood. Drawing from her own life and the lives of loved ones, as well as pop culture and news headlines, Shire finds vivid, unique details in the experiences of refugees and immigrants, mothers and daughters, Black women, and teenage girls. In Shire's hands, lives spring into fullness. This is noisy life: full of music and weeping and surahs and sirens and birds. This is fragrant life: full of blood and perfume and shisha smoke and jasmine and incense. This is polychrome life: full of henna and moonlight and lipstick and turmeric and kohl"--Provided by publisher.

"In twenty-six poetic essays, . . . [the author] . . . writes about marriage, death, and other topics"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of poems involving animal totems.

Uses poetic text to describe various types of spiders, and includes a glossary of terms and notes on poetic forms.

Presents an anthology of poetry about music, including jazz, the blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop.

"In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's ... life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four 'experts' could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea"-- Provided by publisher.

"A poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpoint of a Black woman in America"--Provided by publisher.