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What happens when you hold up a mirror to poems about Greek myths? You get a brand-new perspective on the classics! And that is just what happens in Echo Echo, the newest collection of reverso poems from Marilyn Singer. Read one way, each poem tells the story of a familiar myth; but when read in reverse, the poems reveal a new point of view! Readers will delight in uncovering the dual points of view in well-known legends, including the stories of...
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"A reproduction of the 1905 edition of the bestselling Indiana author's poetry collection, featuring historic farm scene illustrations by Will Vawter. First published in 1883, this charming book includes many of James Whitcomb Riley's signature poems, including "Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Also graced by noted Brown County artist Will Vawter's folksy illustrations of farm scenes from our past, this Library...
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Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it means to not be able to breathe, and how the people and things you love most are actually the oxygen you most need"--
51) Mother Winter
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Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A poetic personification of the winter season, Mother Winter goes walking "on the longest cold night," inviting the reader along to experience chill winds, icy ponds, white snowdrifts, and other quiet wonders"--
52) Lifetime Visions
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Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Mac Fleming has been a photographer all his life. In his senior years, he broadened his range of self-expression from the concrete reality of photographs to the realm of critical thoughts and feelings expressed in poetry. In this book, he uses poetry to trace his maturing ideas and feelings from youthful years in Oregon and middle years in the Midwest to senior years on the coast of California. Along this journey, he occasionally adds a touch of the...
53) The Aeneid
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English
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Virgil's epic poem describing the fall of Troy, in English blank verse by Robert Fitzgerald.
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Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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This series of interconnected dramatic monologues illustrates the true stories of frontier women and children who were stranded on and settled along the trails to the West. Spanning the school year 1889-90, we follow the intimate day-to-day lives of a school teacher, her students, and their parents in the mythical town of Cottonwood.
57) Stag's leap
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love's sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband's smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous...
58) This big sky
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Poems that describe the landscape, people, and animals of the American Southwest.
59) I like stars
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Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954
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English
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A simple poem describing all kinds of stars that appear in the night sky.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Esquire magazine planned an issue to salute the American jazz scene in 1958, graphic designer Art Kane pitched a crazy idea: how about gathering a group of beloved jazz musicians and photographing them? He didn't own a good camera, didn't know if any musicians would show up, and insisted on setting up the shoot in front of a Harlem brownstone. Could he pull it off? In a captivating collection of poems, Roxane Orgill steps into the frame of Harlem...
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