The poetry is accessible to all ages. It feels particularly powerful when Woodson shares her struggles with reading as a child — which, as is made clear through her mesmerizing verse — never extinguished her love for storytelling. 20. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Buy on ...
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Gr 8 Up–Amal is a Black teen incarcerated for assaulting a white teen. With spare but forceful words, this novel in verse examines the dehumanization of young people caught in the school-to-prison pipeline. Through Amal’s experience, readers see how young people are left at the mercy of ...
Bethany holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan-Flint, and was poetry editor for the university’s Qua Literary and Fine Arts Magazine. See full bio Bethany's expertise Bethany has written 431 Finder guides across topics including: Personal finance Banking Auto loans Insurance ...
Fun fact: As a poet, Treece was a founder of the New Apocalypse movement, a reaction against the politically oriented, machine-age literature and realist poetry of the 1930s. I also recommend Treece’s Viking Trilogy, which includes Viking’s Dawn (1955), The Road to Miklagard (1957), ...
*** Poetry *異常對話者 – Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese Edition) (Deal, Not Free) by David Randolph Caldwell. Price: $2.99. Genre: Literary Fiction Deal, Sponsor, A thought gives way to climbing the walls of imagination. Rated: 5 stars on 1 Reviews. 82 pages. ASIN: B0DCHBQL...
I met Yursky for the first time in New York when I came to one of his poetry concerts in Brooklyn. I was 19 years old, shy, and quiet. By that time, my poems have appeared in many Russian magazines and newspapers, and three small books of my poems were published. My parents were...
Luckily all is reconciled through the traditional means of poetry readings and electric guitars. Thanks to emotionally sensitive performances from some of Hollywood’s teen elite, the clichéd characters and unlikely turns of events become convincing and even moving, resulting in a feisty tale of ...
The Hobbit, the fantasy novel by J.R.R. Tolkien, is a classic.The Hobbitis agreat read-aloudfor parents to share with children just as Tolkien shared the book with his children.The Hobbitis popular with middle school readers, as well as teens and adults. Since the book provides backgrou...
*** Poetry *異常對話者 – Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese Edition) (Deal, Not Free) by David Randolph Caldwell. Price: $2.99. Genre: Literary Fiction Deal, Sponsor, Chinese Version, Poetry tends to cleanse you of what no longer fundamentally matters and opens up the infinite possibilit...