Fleming Community Library

In a powerful poem accompanied by majestic paintings of influential men, Shange reflects on her childhood when her home was often filled with visionaries and talented artists like Ellington, DuBois, Gillespie, and Robeson.

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, written by the late Coretta Scott King Book Award-winning Jamaican poet James Berry. -- provided by publisher.

A young girl expresses what she loves about life.

Humorous, rhyming text provides alternating viewpoints on the many things that are wrong, and some things that are probably okay, about girls and boys.

Presents nearly seventy angst-filled poems by teenage girls, as well as a teaching chapter on poetry that describes various types of poems and gives tips on writing.