Weatherford, Carole Boston

Summary: A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC WEA

Alarcón, Francisco X.

Summary: Presents a series of brief poems in English and Spanish for each day of the week that celebrate the joys of family and other relationships.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 811 ALA

Nye, Naomi Shihab

Summary: A collection of poems about family and the love we share with one another throughout life's peaks and valleys.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 NYE

Grimes, Nikki.

Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GRI

Grimes, Nikki

Summary: A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Grimes 2018