juvenile poetry

"The term 'Apple' is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly, 'red on the outside, white on the inside.' Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist who straddles two worlds. Eric shatters that slur and reclaims it in verse and prose and imagery that truly lives up to the word heartbreaking"--Jacket flap.

The author interprets the people, events, influences and art that made up the brief life of Sylvia Plath.

Not the lamb nor the goat nor the donkey nor the dove was born on the first Christmas long ago, but a special child was.

A poem eulogizing the Mexican American labor activist Ce?ar Cha?vez and his work helping organize migrant farm workers.

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.

A collection of poems which tells the story of the first Easter.

Examines the early life of the twentieth-century Argentine author, from his boyhood in a prosperous family that spoke both English and Spanish, to his schooldays and his return to Argentina as a young man.

A series of poems written from the point of view of the poet Langston Hughes, offering an overview of key events and themes in his life.

"There is a legend that describes how, at midnight on Christmas Eve, all creatures are granted the power of speech for one hour. In this collection, Lee Bennett Hopkins and a dozen other poets imagine what responses they might offer"--OCLC.

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.