"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--

From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking inspiration from the unsung women poets of the era, Grimes uses the "Golden Shovel" poetry method to create original poems drwan from the words of ... groundbreaking...

"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"-- 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...

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

"Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in. Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door. After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home,...

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer es el más alto exponente del movimiento romántico en España. Sus temas predilectos muestran el entronque romántico pero sus versos carecen del tono rimbombante y del sentimentalismo exagerado asociados a este movimiento. En sus Leyendas se observan varios rasgos románticos, en lenguaje y temática. El paisaje, que apenas existe en las Rimas, adquiere un énfasis especial, pero en ambos géneros, poesía y prosa, el mundo...

Collected here are 98 poems that made Robert Frost's reputation as the greatest American Poet of his or any other time. Uniquely powerful and uniquely American Frost's poems are important and approachable.

This book is, divided into two parts, Fiction and Memoirs, but the sections do overlap. I have learned that a small memory or experience is not a story but merely a Vignette. However, that Vignette can turn into a story with the help of some imagination. Therefore, all of these short pieces needed some sort of "trigger" to bring them to completion. Some of them are, based on early experiences in many places throughout the United States and especially...

"The Knight" is a poetic book of a knight saving a kingdom from a dragon invasion. A first in a series of children's books. Rhyming scheme with advanced vocabulary, including definitions in the footnotes. Use of psychological principles, phoneme manipulation, and storytelling provides young children with rich writing experiences which can lay a foundation for literacy learning.

Illustrated edition of the well-known poem about the fate of the sailor who shot down an albatross and brought ill luck upon himself and his ship.