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I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You : A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs
Naomi Shihab Nye, Paul B. Janeczko
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9.7 |
For this fascinating anthology of modern poetry, the editors grouped 196 poems into pairs, to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. Surprisingly, wonderfully, the end result shows as many similar
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Room Enough for Love : The Complete Poems of I Am Wings and Buried Alive
Ralph J. Fletcher
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Current:
9.6 |
"A month ago/ in biology lab/ you sat close to me/ knee touching mine/ your sweet smell/ almost drowning out/ the formaldehyde stink...." Sound familiar? Ralph Fletcher's poems perfectly capture the intensity of teenage love--the thrills, t
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The Space Between Our Footsteps : Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Current:
9.5 |
"Poetry is a river / And solitude a bridge. / Through writing / We cross it, / Through reading / We Return." So writes Lebanese poet Kaissar Afif in Naomi Shihab Nye's aesthetically stunning anthology of poetry and paintings from
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Listen Up! : Spoken Word Poetry
Zoe Anglesey
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Current:
9.5 |
"Today, the poetry scene flourishes at New York open-mic spots like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Brooklyn's YWCA Tea Party and Harlem's Sugar Shack. Progeny of hip poets--the Beats of the 50s and protest poets of the 60s and 70s--these
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Girl Goddess #9
Francesca Lia Block
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Current:
9.4 |
Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed, dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric more]
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Visions : 19 Short Stories
Donald R. Gallo
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Current:
9.3 |
Imagine...Nineteen superb stories by today's best-known authors of young adult novels, coming together to create a window of the mind, a vision illuminating the joys and sorrows of young people.These nineteen splendid stories range fr
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Leaving Home : Stories
Hazel Rochman, Darlene Z. McCampbell
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Current:
9.3 |
How do we become who we need to be? How do we make the transition from child to adult? Sometimes we have very few people to guide us. Sometimes the journeys are lonely. Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to see how far we've come. "Le
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A Way Out of No Way : Writings About Growing Up Black in America (Edge Books)
Jacqueline Woodson
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Current:
9.3 |
Put together in remembrance of the authors who inspired her own writing, this anthology edited by Jacqueline Woodson includes stories and poems by more than a dozen African American writers. From excerpts of more]
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Earth-Shattering Poems
Liz Rosenberg
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Current:
9.2 |
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Pierced by a Ray of Sun : Poems About the Times We Feel Alone
Ruth Gordon
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Current:
9.2 |
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I Am Wings. : Poems About Love
Ralph J. Fletcher, Joe Baker (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.2 |
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Beat Voices : An Anthology of Beat Poetry
David Kherdian
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Current:
9.2 |
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What Have You Lost?
Naomi Shihab Nye(Illustrator), Michael Nye (Photographer)
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Current:
9.2 |
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The Invisible Ladder : An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers
Liz Rosenberg
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Current:
9.2 |
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I Wouldn't Thank You for a Valentine : Poems for Young Feminists
Carol Ann Duffy, Trisha Rafferty (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.2 |
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I Am the Darker Brother : An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans
Arnold Adoff
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Current:
9.1 |
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Cool Salsa : Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States (Edge Books)
Lori M. Carlson, Oscar Hijuelos (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.1 |
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry [ABRIDGED]
Margaret Ferguson
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Current:
9.0 |
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Grand Mothers : Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions
Nikki Giovanni
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Current:
8.8 |
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Wherever Home Begins : 100 Contemporary Poems
Paul B. Janeczko
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Current:
8.7 |
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Baseball in April : And Other Stories
Gary Soto
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Current:
8.7 |
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Am I Blue? : Coming Out from the Silence
Marion Dane Bauer, Beck Underwood (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.6 |
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Athletic Shorts : Six Short Stories
Chris Crutcher
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Current:
8.6 |
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8 Plus 1
Robert Corimer, Robert Cormier
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Current:
8.5 |
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No Easy Answers : Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices
Donald R. Gallo
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Current:
8.5 |
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American Eyes : New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
Lori M. Carlson, Cynthia Kadohata (Introduction)
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Current:
8.4 |
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A Couple of Kooks and Other Stories About Love
Cynthia Rylant
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Current:
8.3 |
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Connections : Short Stories
Donald Gallo
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Current:
8.3 |
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Working Days : Short Stories About Teenagers at Work
Anne Mazer
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Current:
8.2 |
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| 30
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Doing Time : Notes from the Undergrad
Rob Thomas
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Current:
8.2 |
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Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories about Guns
Harry Mazer
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Current:
8.1 |
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A Starfarer's Dozen : Stories of Things to Come
Michael Stearns, Michael Hussar (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.0 |
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The International Association of Crime Writers Presents Bad Behavior
Mary Higgins Clark
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Current:
8.0 |
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2041 : Twelve Short Stories About the Future of Top Science Fiction Writers
Jane Yolen
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Current:
7.9 |
Contains twelve entertaining and intriguing stories about the future as seen through the eyes of such noted science fiction authors as Anne McCaffrey, Bruce Coville, Joe Haldeman, Connie Willis, and others. Reprint. SLJ. C. VY.
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Learning to Live in the World : Earth Poems
William Stafford
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Call and Other Stories
Robert Westall
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Current:
7.9 |
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