Kingsolver, Barbara
Summary: In her second poetry collection, Barbara Kingsolver offers reflections on the practical, the spiritual, and the wild. She begins with "how to" poems addressing everyday matters such as being hopeful, married, divorced; shearing a sheep; praying to unreliable gods; doing nothing at all; and of course, flying. Next come rafts of poems about making peace (or not) with the complicated bonds of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 KINHarris, Chris
Summary: "A witty, illustrated collection of humorous (and sometimes even heartwarming) poems and nonsense inspired by the absurdities of everyday life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 HARHowitt, Mary Botham
Summary: An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOWNye, Naomi Shihab
Summary: "Poet Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to refugees"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NYEBelloc, Hilaire
Summary: From the Publisher: One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 821.912 BELHecht, Jennifer Michael
Summary: "Lively, practical, and transcendent, The Wonder Paradox is a roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.1 HECBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: Now in middle school, Isaiah Dunn participates in a mentoring program, but he has a hunch that his mentee--a troublemaking third-grader name Kobe--has a secret and Isaiah is determined to get to the bottom of it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2022