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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
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Series
Horrible Harry volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry and Doug investigate when special bookmarks begin to disappear while their class is busy studying poetry and running their own post office.
10) Out of the dust
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Written in sparse first-person, free-verse poems, is the compelling tale of Billie Jo's struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression. With stoic courage, she learns to cope with the loss of her mother and her grieving father's slow deterioration. There is hope at the end when Billie Jo's badly burned hands are healed, and she is able to play her beloved piano again.
15) The song of us
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Love at first sight isn't a myth. For seventh graders Olivia and Eden, it's fate. Olivia is a capital-P Poet, and Eden thinks she wants to be a musician one day, but for now she's just the new girl. And then Eden shows up to Poetry Club and everything changes. Eden isn't out, and she has rules for dating Olivia: don't call. Don't tell her friends. And don't let anyone know they're together. But when jealousy creeps in, it's Olivia's words that push...
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Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
17) Free Verse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"After her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left and nowhere to turn, but soon discovers family she didn't know she had, and begins to heal through poetry"--
18) Skylark
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Angie lives in an old car with her brother and mother. Homeless after their father left to find work, the family struggles to stay together and live as normally as possible. It is difficult though. Between avoiding the police and finding new places to park each night, it is a constant struggle. When Angie discovers slam poetry, she finds a new way to express herself and find meaning and comfort in a confusing world.
19) Slugs in love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Marylou and Herbie, two garden slugs, write love poems in slime to one another but have trouble actually meeting.
20) How to be a lion
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"When Leonard the lion and his friend Marianne, a duck, are confronted by a pack of lion bullies, they find a creative way to stand up for themselves"--