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"With her first video posted to social media, Soma Kear has become a viral MC. Trouble is, she didn't exactly think the whole thing through. All Soma knew was that her rhymes were urgent. They were on fire. They were an expression of where she was, and that place...was a hot mess. Soma's ba was deported back to Cambodia six months ago, and it's changed everything. Her ma's been away, trying to help her father acclimate to his new life, and against...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed. Moving from a Sri Lankan...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
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Usborne Publishing/ EDC
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Nursery Rhymes included are: Do you know the muffin man?; Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake; Old King Cole; The Queen of Hearts; Jack and Jill; Humpty Dumpty; Little Bo Peep; Mary had a little Lamb; Hickory dickory dock; 1,2,3,4, Mary at the cottage door; Little Miss Muffet; Mary Mary Quite Contrary; Rub a dub-dub; 1,2,3,4,5, once I caught a fish alive; Old Mother Hubbard; This little piggy; Sing a song of sixpence; Baa baa Black Sheep; Hey didddle diddle and...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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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.
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Make Me A World
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one that that could prove her reputation and jeopardize her...
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