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5) Little tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The poet/individualist's ode to a small tree decorated for Christmas and proud to receive admiring attention.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
9) Emma
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Series
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English
Description
Emma, by Jane Austen, is about youthful hubris and romantic misunderstandings. It is set in the fictional country village of Highbury and the surrounding estates, and involves the relationships among people from a small number of families. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England. Emma is a comedy of manners, and depicts issues of marriage, sex, age, and social status.
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11) Robert Frost
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Language
English
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Description
A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of the best-known American poets.
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Language
English
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Description
Written to be read aloud by two voices-sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneous--here is a collection of irresistible poems that celebrate the insect world, from the short life of the mayfly to the love song of the book louse. Funny, sad, loud, and quiet, each of these poems resounds with a booming, boisterous, joyful noise. In this remarkable volume of poetry for two voices, Paul Fleischman verbally re-creates the "Booming/boisterious/joyful...
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English
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Initially conceived after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was known for his early studies of Native American culture, "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibwa Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Written in 1855 in trochaic tetrameter, the tale is set in the picturesque Pictured Rocks area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The lyrical descriptions of this...
17) Casey at the bat
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Language
English
Description
The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game, illustrated with a cast of animal characters.
18) Edgar Allan Poe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A collection of thirteen poems and eight prose selections from larger works of American author, Edgar Allan Poe.
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Language
English
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In Dearly, Margaret Atwood's first collection of poetry in over a decade, she addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature, and... zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone but wide ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Atwood's fiction-including...
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