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1) Dear Medusa
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Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse as she grapples with how to reclaim her story, her anger, and her body in a world that seems determined to punish her for the sin of surviving."This is more than a story about sexual violence—this book is about race, sexuality, love, and how anger can be a catalyst for healing."—Gabrielle Union, bestselling author, actress, and producerSixteen-year-old...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A companion to the Pura Belpré Honor book They Call Me Güero“You can be my boyfriend.” It only takes five words to change Güero’s life at the end of seventh grade. The summer becomes extra busy as he learns to balance new band practice with his old crew, Los Bobbys, and being Joanna Padilla’s boyfriend. They call her “fregona” because she’s tough, always sticking up for her family and keeping the school bully in check. But Güero...
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Random House Digital
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English
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NEWBERY HONOR AWARD WINNER • In this timely and moving novel in verse, a preteen girl navigates seventh grade while facing mental health challenges. A hopeful, poetic story about learning to advocate for the help and understanding you deserve. "Powerful." —Lisa Fipps, Printz Honor-winning author of StarfishHow do you speak up when it feels like no one is listening?The end of elementary school? Worst time of my life.And the start of middle school?I...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writesabout her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black...
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Publisher
Random House Digital
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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In this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughout the changing seasons. With stunning illustrations and a charming text, this beautiful story celebrates a child's relationship with nature. There was a boynamed Emilewho fellin love with a field.It was wideand blue--and if you could haveseen itso would've you.Emile loves the field close to his home--in spring, summer, and fall, when it gives...
6) Alone
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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A New York Times bestseller!
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare....
Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.
When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare....
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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In her own voice, acclaimed author and poet Nikki Grimes explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late...
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late...
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As an Irishman I have been inspired by the many talented poets from my country. The poems in this book are the result of my experiences in a rich and varied life and the fascination I have had with the history and life of my countrymen and countrywomen.
The poems reflect the fact that I have explored many aspects of religion and philosophy in my life and I have come to the conclusion that for me the most important consideration is living a life with...
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This collection of poetry and 'psychoetry' explores themes of anti-authoritarianism, haunted love, and mental health through an intense, passionate personal lens.
With hints of philosophy and touches of sarcasm, the writing style varies dramatically between different poetic voices – echoes of the differing 'alters' within the author's trauma-induced dissociative identity disorder system.
You'll discover poems penned in radically distinct styles,...
11) Inspirations
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Inspirations is a collection of photographs, each accompanied by a poem depicting Constanze Hawkins' love of the natural world. The poems capture the thoughts and wonder inspired by the photos. Constanze herself took all of the photographs, mostly near her Perth home on the grounds of the University of Western Australia. Even the photo of the peacock was taken at UWA, which has a few peacocks and peahens roaming freely in its gardens.
The photos...
13) Plastic
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you see a photo of yourself / pressed behind plastic / three years old in a white skivvyIn Plastic, Stacey Teague reaches beyond the frame of her known world to find a way back to te ao Maori. Hers is a complicated, joyful route, full of conversations with ancestors, old places and herself. In form these poems range from plain-speaking prose and concrete poetry to odes and spells; in mood they are just as restless, taking in those times when life...
14) Life
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Life is a meditative collection of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. The poems included throughout are striking and inviting. Readers will feel welcome to journey alongside you as you discover and find your true happiness.
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This collection offers an intimate glimpse into a life weathered by adversity yet renewed by purpose. The candid verses inside reflect the mind and heart of a writer who has suffered yet chooses to share the lessons and hope gleaned along the way.With grit-edged honesty and tenderness, the poems mine the profound human experiences that forge us: love and loss, joy and grief. They chronicle the search for meaning amidst the hellish trials of life,...
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How does one navigate life? This is a question asked by most teenagers on the planet, as they step on the edge of being an adult. This is a question I've asked myself for the longest time, as I traversed breakups and fought exams, questioned the very existence of my meaning, which I then expressed in these poems and extracts from my diary.
The pages inside this book are windows into my soul. Little cries for help from the past couple of years. The...
17) Love and Shadows
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Love and Shadows is a collection of insightful and compelling poetic pieces that grasps the raw chasms of human emotions. This collection has been written by a young woman who has trodden the path of spiritual awakening and is inviting you to follow her into the process of self-healing. She shares bits and pieces of what she has learned about love, hope, freedom, sorrow, despair, bravery, resilience, and beauty. Her pieces are a unique blend of both...
18) Wordle Limericks
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English
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A MIXED COMPEDIUM OF LIMERICKS-(HUMEROUS, BADRY, EDUCATIONAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, MATHEMATICAL, ETC,ETC) BASED UPON THE 5 LETTER WORD OF THE DAY IN THE INTERNET GAME "WORDLE" PLAYED BY 2.5 MILLION PEOPLE WORLDWIDE. FOOTNOTES ACCOMPANY THE HISTORIC, SCIENTIFIC, AND MORE ESOTERIC LIMERICKS. The motto of this unique book is "LAUGH AND LEARN".
19) New Year Odyssey
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English
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New Year Odyssey is an original poem by Warren Brown. This is a poem of hope during these times of crisis. We are all learning a new way of living. Our lives will never be the same again. This poem is a document of the present and will provide a beacon of hope as humanity moves towards the future. The seas have been rough and wild,The weather has been stormy and cold,The sails of our ships have been ripped to shreds,Our vessels have been battered...
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Pursued through poetic pastures of faith, love, and time by an Omuhimba muse who alternately challenges and enchants him, D. Stevenson presents Ancestors and Other Visitors, a poetry anthology that is as sweepingly existential as it is personal and as sagely simple as it is complex.An immigrant, artist and spoken wordsmith observing the world through a traveler soul, Stevenson journeys through time and literary style to pay homage to influence such...
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