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Author
Series
Danitra Brown series volume 1
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little girl introduces her best friend through a collection of thirteen poems.
3) Still I Rise
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Contains the author's poem about the indomitable human spirit.
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Series
Appears on list
Description
This generous volume is a genuine literary milestone, the first comprehensive collection of the verse of a writer who has been called both the poet laureate of African America and our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. The book contains 860 poems, including all the verse that Hughes published during his lifetime, and nearly 300 that have never before appeared in book form.
10) The undefeated
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
Presents an ode to black American triumph and tribulation.
13) Locomotion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.
17) Blues journey
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The African experience in America is brought to life in a poem that uses a call and response singing form common to the blues.
18) Langston Hughes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief profile of African American poet Langston Hughes accompanies some of his better known poems for children.
19) Love Poems
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
In a career that has spanned more than a quarter century, Nikki Giovanni has earned the reputation as one of America's most celebrated and controversial writers. Now, she presents a stunning collection of love poems that includes more than twenty new works. From the revolutionary "Seduction" to the tender new poem, "Just a Simple Declaration of Love," from the whimsical "I Wrote a Good Omelet" to the elegiac "All Eyez on U," written for Tupac Shakur,...
20) Selected Poems
Author
Description
Contains a selection of poems chosen from Hughes' earlier volumes plus a number of new poems.