Poetry Speaks Who I Am: poems of discovery, inspiration, independence, and everything else… A collection of more than one hundred poems for teenagers features the works of classic and contemporary poets, including Emily Dickinson, Nikki Grimes, Langston Hughes, and Seamus Heaney.  Includes a CD of the poets reading their own work.

Poetry meets nature’s survivors.  From bacteria to lichens to sharks and ants to grasses, squirrels, and humans (and plenty in between), Joyce Sidman presents these ubiquitous inhabitants of the earth with a poem followed by a page of scientific details and interesting facts, all colorfully illustrated.  Did you know that the gecko (pictured on the [...]

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