Peters, Lisa Westberg
Summary: "If you're a curious child and you get a new dog, you discover all kinds of things. Gravity has new meaning, when you're racing down a slide toward your eager-beaver dog waiting at the bottom (uh-oh!). Friction has a new meaning, when your slippery dog escapes from the bath (soap+fingers=not enough friction). But love has a new meaning too, when you and your cosmic dog become the center of your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, and imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 PETMoore, Clement Clarke
Summary: Actor Jeff Bridges narrates this classic tale, bringing to life Charles Santore's images. The sound and look of this Christmas tradition will enchant young believers, and older ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applesauce Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Christmas, Call number: JE MOOLatham, Irene
Summary: This beautiful poetry collection introduces readers to the art of found poetry as the poet writes a 37-line poem, "Nest," then finds 160 smaller poems within it. What can you find in a poem about a robin's nest? Irene Latham masterfully discovers "nestlings" or smaller poems about an astonishing variety of subjects--emotions, wild animals, natural landmarks on all seven continents, even planets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsong, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LATAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 ACELeón, Amyra
Summary: The author takes readers on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem. León explores love and loss, melody and bloodshed as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. She invites readers to dream with abandon-- because it is a privilege to dream at all. -- adapted from front flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEOThakur, Sophia
Summary: "In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an intimate journey through love, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In four parts -- titled Grow, Wait, Break, and Grow Again -- she shares her raw self and gives voice to experiences that connect people, inspiring readers to explore the tendencies of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 THAMartin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica)
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. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARGorman, Amanda
Summary: Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORSummary: "In a collection of more than 150 original pieces created by members of POPS (Pain of the Prison System) the Club around the country, high-school students express their sorrow, confusion, anger, bewilderment, hopes, and dreams through poetry, essays, haiku, rap lyrics, drawings, paintings, photos, and collages. They tell stories that reflect different circumstances and experiences, but all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Out of the Woods Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.8 DRECastle, Jiordan
Summary: "Moving and evocative, this YA memoir-in-verse follows author Jiordan Castle's coming-of-age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CASGrimes, Nikki
Summary: "Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 Grimes 2019Various
Contents: Invitation to black power : parts 1 & 2 (Shahid Quintet) -- Free Huey (Stokely Carmichael) -- Silent majority (live at Newport) (Gene McDaniels) -- Until we're free (Elaine Brown) -- George Jackson (acoustic version) (Bob Dylan) -- Dem niggers ain't playing (the Watts Prophets) -- Woman of the ghetto (live at Montreux) (Marlena Shaw) -- Black power (Dick Gregory) -- I ain't black (Kain) -- I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Light in the Attic 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LISOdenkirk, Bob
Contents: Cars and weed ; Rap music ; Women ; I didn't mean to end my set like this / Brandon Wardell -- The stakes ; The internet ; The elderly ; The television ; The Pope ; The statue ; The congo ; The candidate ; The kids ; The fear ; The monkees ; The bears / Bob Odenkirk.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspecialthing 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN ODELeary, Denis.
Contents: Asshole (4:26) -- Drugs (8:25) -- Rehab (4:03) -- More drugs (7:07) -- Smoke (5:28) -- Meat (4:03) -- Death (5:01) -- The downtrodden song (1:23) -- Traditional Irish folk song (1:59) -- Voices in my head (3:37).
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN LEAOswalt, Patton.
Summary: Presents the stand-up comedy routine of actor/comedian Patton Oswalt in which he takes aim at George Bush, the fast food industry, small-towns, religion, and other targets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 GANReynolds, Jason
Summary: "Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. Jump Anyway is for kids who dream. Kids who dream of being better than they are....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 REYReiner, Carl
Contents: 2000 year old man -- Fabiola -- The astronaught -- In a coffee house. The depressed one ; The actor ; The painter ; The folksinger -- The Peruvian -- The psychiatrist -- 2000 and six month man -- The tax expert -- Two hour old baby -- The new technique psychiatric society -- The third best poet -- The Cannes Film Festival. Adolph Hartler ; Frederico Fettucini ; Tippy Skittles -- Dr. Felix...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN TWORuddock, Nicholas
Summary: "Would you help a tiny fragile snake? Fifteen poems explore close encounters with animals ... and choosing to respond tenderly. Whether it's helping a hummingbird escape, respecting a bear's habitat, admiring a heron's beauty, or giving way to ants at a picnic, the human response in these poems is to do no harm, and to help whenever possible. The poems follow a seasonal progression, ending with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 RUDPoundstone, Paula.
Summary: Comedian Paula Poundstone is at her best in two memorable performances, one recorded in Bayfield, Wisconsin, at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua and the other at the historic Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. Join Paula Poundstone in her element: sharing too much information, telling unpredictable stories, and interacting with her audience with a spontaneity that is considered without peer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POULevinson, Suzy
Summary: "What? You've never seen animals in pants? A dog in yoga pants, a goat in overalls, a yak in slacks? Animals in Pants presents a parade of impeccable poems about animals wearing perfectly pressed pants." -- inside front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids, Cameron + Company 2023