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1) The raven
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Presents Poe's haunting poem, which explores the terrifying truths that lurk deep within the human psyche.
2) Maya Angelou
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Presents a selection of the African American poet's work which celebrates childhood, work, solitude, aging, courage, and the experience of freedom.
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Celebrate Black History: J & YA Nonfiction Books
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
Women's History Month
NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Paperback
Women's History Month
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"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...
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When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery getthe recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
5) Fables
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Twenty original fables about an array of animal characters from crocodile to ostrich.
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Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. And soon strange things start happening--the sound of footsteps overhead late at night. Things at the old house only get spookier until one evening when Celeste looks in the steamy mirror after a shower and sees her face, but twisted, different ... Who is the girl in the mirror? And what does...
9) Oddly enough
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A collection of nine short stories featuring an angel, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, and other unusual creatures.
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Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years after his death. This edition of The Raven and Other Poems is the work of a master, and includes "The Raven," "Lenore," "Annabel Lee." One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe's poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the nineteenth century.
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19) Walt Whitman
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An illustrated collection of twenty-six poems and excerpts from longer poems by the renowned nineteenth-century poet.
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