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POETRY
TITLE: Ain't Burned All the Bright
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds; Jason Griffin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Gri SUMMARY: A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. |
TITLE: And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
AUTHOR: Erica Martin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Mar SUMMARY: A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. |
TITLE: Home Body
AUTHOR: Rupi Kaur WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Kau SUMMARY: rupi kaur constantly embraces growth, and in home body, she walks readers through a reflective and intimate journey visiting the past, the present, and the potential of the self. |
TITLE: How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope
AUTHOR: Edited by James Crews WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 How SUMMARY: How to Love the World invites readers to use poetry as part of their daily gratitude practice to uncover the simple gifts of abundance and joy to be found everywhere. |
TITLE: You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves
AUTHOR: Edited by Diana Whitney WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 You SUMMARY: Poetry awakens your inner world and makes all your feelings come alive. The poems in this collection-- chosen with girls in mind-- sing of diversity, self-discovery, and self-acceptance. Grouped by emotional experience, the poems offer girls and young women wisdom and compassion for a vital, formative time in their lives. They also give the reader permission let go of shame and perfectionism. By accepting your own contradictions, you can embrace the fullness of who you are-- and of who you are becoming. |
TITLE: When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
AUTHOR: Edited by Joy Harjo with LeAnne Howe and Jennifer Elise Foerster CALL NUMBER: 811 Whe SUMMARY: United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. |
TITLE: Milk and Honey
AUTHOR: Rupi Kaur WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Kau SUMMARY: A collection of poems that looks at survival through experiences of violence, abuse, love, and loss. |
TITLE: For Every One
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Rey SUMMARY: Presents a poem in which the author inspires kids to dream, even though dreams may take time and involve countless struggles. |
TITLE: The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One
AUTHOR: Amanda Lovelace WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Lov SUMMARY: A collection of poems that encourage resilience and inspire women to take control of their own stories. |
TITLE: Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
AUTHOR: Kathy Jet̄nil-Kijiner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Jet̄ SUMMARY: A collection of poetry by a young Marshallese woman highlighting the traumas of her people through colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of nuclear testing by America, and the impending threats of climate change. |
TITLE: Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation
AUTHOR: Brett Fletcher Lauer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Ple SUMMARY: An anthology of poems by young, award-winning, up-and-coming writers reflects a diverse range of voices, styles, and backgrounds. |
TITLE: Report to the Department of the Interior
AUTHOR: Diane Glancy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Gla SUMMARY: Constructed as a series of reports to the Department of the Interior, these poems of grief, anger, defiance, and resistance focus on the oppressive educational system adopted by Indian boarding schools and the struggle Native Americans experienced to retain and honor traditional ways of life and culture. |
TITLE: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems
AUTHOR: Countee Cullen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Cul SUMMARY: Presents a comprehensive collection of the often controversial Harlem Renaissance figure's poetry, which was marked by racial, sexual, and religious themes, in a work that includes previously uncollected and unpublished poems. |
TITLE: The Rose that Grew from Concrete
AUTHOR: Tupac Shakur WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Sha SUMMARY: A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela. |
TITLE: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
AUTHOR: Langston Hughes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Hug SUMMARY: A comprehensive collection of the verse of Langston Hughes contains 860 poems, including three hundred that have never appeared in book form, is arranged chronologically, and features commentary by Hughes's biographer. |
BOOKS IN VERSE
TITLE: Before the Ever After
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Woo - NOVELS SUMMARY: ZJ's friends Ollie, Darry and Daniel help him cope when his father, a beloved professional football player, suffers severe headaches and memory loss that spell the end of his career. |
TITLE: Red, White, and Whole
AUTHOR: Rajani LaRocca WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F LaR - NOVELS SUMMARY: Feeling disconnected from her heritage as the only Indian-American student in her community, young Reha commits herself to a future different from her dreams when her mother becomes dangerously ill. |
TITLE: Punching the Air
AUTHOR: Ibi Zoboi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Zob - NOVELS SUMMARY: YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. |
TITLE: In Paris with You
AUTHOR: Clémentine Beauvais WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bea - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Ten years after they parted, Tatiana and Eugene meet again in the Paris Metro and begin to explore their past, when they might have fallen in love, as well as their possible future. |
TITLE: The Poet X
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother's religion and her own relationship to the world. |
TITLE: White Rose
AUTHOR: Kip Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group. |
TITLE: Shout
AUTHOR: Laurie Halse Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 And SUMMARY: A memoir in verse shares the author's life, covering her rape at thirteen, her difficult early childhood, and her experiences surrounding her publication of Speak. |
TITLE: The Crossover
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health. |
TITLE: Inside Out & Back Again
AUTHOR: Thanhha Lai WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lai - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. |
TITLE: Under the Mesquite
AUTHOR: Guadalupe Garcia McCall WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F McC - NOVELS SUMMARY: Throughout her high school years, as her mother battles cancer, Lupita takes on more responsibility for her house and seven younger siblings, while finding refuge in acting and writing poetry. Includes glossary of Spanish terms. |
TITLE: Bull
AUTHOR: David Elliott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ell - FANTASY SUMMARY: A modern twist on the Theseus and Minotaur myth, told in verse. |
TITLE: Paper Hearts
AUTHOR: Meg Wiviott WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wiv - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Amid the brutality of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, a forbidden gift helps two teenage girls find hope, friendship, and the will to live in this novel in verse that's based on a true story. |