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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for grades 8-12

Genre/Category
Fiction | Poetry | Realistic | Stories

Historical Time Period
Modern
Topic
African-American | Culture and Traditions | Poetry | Short stories
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
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You Don’t Even Know Me

Author: Flake, Sharon

This collection of original stories and poems provides rare insight into the minds of adolescent African American boys. There’s Tow-Kaye, getting married at age seventeen to the love of his life, who’s pregnant. James writes in his diary about his twin brother’s terrible secret, while Tyler explains what it’s like to be a player with the ladies. And Eric takes us on a tour of North Philly on the Fourth of July, when the heat could make a guy go crazy. Sharon G. Flake’s talent for telling it like it is will leave readers thinking differently, feeling deeply, and definitely wanting more.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 12 Grade and Adult

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
Poetry | Polish
Format
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Map: Collected and Last Poems

Author: Szymborska, Wisława

A new collected volume from the Nobel Prize–winning poet that includes, for the first time in English, all of the poems from her last Polish collection

One of Europe’s greatest recent poets is also its wisest, wittiest, and most accessible. Nobel Prize–winner Wislawa Szymborska draws us in with her unexpected, unassuming humor. Her elegant, precise poems pose questions we never thought to ask. “If you want the world in a nutshell,” a Polish critic remarks, “try Szymborska.” But the world held in these lapidary poems is larger than the one we thought we knew.

Carefully edited by her longtime, award-winning translator, Clare Cavanagh, the poems in Map trace Szymborska’s work until her death in 2012. Of the approximately two hundred and fifty poems included here, nearly forty are newly translated; thirteen represent the entirety of the poet’s last Polish collection, Enough, never before published in English.
Map is the first English publication of Szymborska’s work since the acclaimed Here, and it offers her devoted readers a welcome return to her “ironic elegance” (The New Yorker).

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
American Poets | Poetry
Format
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Sandburg Treasury: Prose and Poetry for Young People (Poetry for Young People)

Author: Sandburg, Carl

An illustrated volume of all of Carl Sandburg’s books for young readers: Rootababa Stories, Early Moon, Wind Song, Prarie-Town Boy, and Abe Lincoln Grows Up. Introduction by Paula Sandburg.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
African-American | Poetry
Format
Book

Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Classics)

Author: Hughes, LangstonPart of a Series: Vintage Classics

“The ultimate book for both the dabbler and serious scholar–. [Hughes] is sumptuous and sharp, playful and sparse, grounded in an earthy music–. This book is a glorious revelation.”–Boston Globe

Spanning five decades and comprising 868 poems (nearly 300 of which have never before appeared in book form), this magnificent volume is the definitive sampling of a writer who has been called the poet laureate of African America–and perhaps our greatest popular poet since Walt Whitman. Here, for the first time, are all the poems that Langston Hughes published during his lifetime, arranged in the general order in which he wrote them and annotated by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel.

Alongside such famous works as “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Montage of a Dream Deferred, The Collected Poems includes the author’s lesser-known verse for children; topical poems distributed through the Associated Negro Press; and poems such as “Goodbye Christ” that were once suppressed. Lyrical and pungent, passionate and polemical, the result is a treasure of a book, the essential collection of a poet whose words have entered our common language.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 6-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Animal | Nature | Nonfiction | Stories

Topic
Animals | Short stories
Main Character
Animal
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Little Brother to the Bear and Other Animal Stories (Masterpiece Collection)

Author: Long, William J.Part of a Series: Masterpiece Collection

Mooweesuk the Coon is called the bear’s little brother by both Indians and naturalists, because of the many ways in which he resembles the “big prowler in the black coat.” An absorbing chapter on the coon’s secret habits begins this volume, followed by stories about the woodcock, the wildcat, the toad, and many other animals. Two chapters remarkable for their keen insight into the hidden life of animals close this volume,─one on Animal Surgery, describing some of the ways in which wild animals treat their wounds; the other on Hunting without a Gun, showing the joy of following even the large and dangerous animals with the desire only to be near and understand them.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
American Poets
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems

Author: Whittier, John Greenleaf

A devout Quaker who became a passionate poetic spokesman for the antislavery movement, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807?92) was one of the most beloved American poets of his era. In the years before the Civil War, he campaigned tirelessly against slavery in poems that include ?Ichabod, ? his famous denunciation of Daniel Webster for his support of the Fugitive Slave Law. In the long poem ?Snow-Bound? (1866) he created a warm and enthralling portrait of rural life, while such works as ?Barbara Frietchie? and ?The Barefoot Boy? have been enduringly popular. This new selection brings together Whittier’s many aspects?political, religious, richly descriptive?and reaffirms the emotional honesty and depth of his work

Beware that some of the links are for other Whittier poetry books.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
Poetry
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Poetry for Young People: Rudyard Kipling (Poetry for Young People)

Author: Kipling, RudyardPart of a Series: Poetry for Young People

“Twenty-eight poems (or parts of poems) reverberate with Kipling’s compassion for his fellow humans….introduction details the events of his life and their relationship to his work. With dedication to the structure, rhythm, and rhyme of his craft, Kipling created poetry that, when read aloud, sings to its audience in every phase. Sharpe’s exquisite paintings illustrate the exotic quality of the verse, whether of animals in the jungle or ships at sea. Vibrant colors reflect the strong emotions of each poem…The faces of children show humor, trust, curiosity, and moodiness. Familiar lines from ‘If’ and ‘The Ballad of East and West’ demonstrate the poet’s universal appeal. As in other books in this series, each poem is preceded by background information, and difficult or unfamiliar words are defined…A worthy addition.”–School Library Journal.

Some of the links are not this exact book but include Kiplings Poetry & Works

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Recommended for 5-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
American Poets | Poetry
Geographic Region
United States - America
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Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Author: Dunbar, Paul Laurence

This volume contains the complete poetical works of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906) was an African-American novelist, poet, and dramatist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This fantastic collection will appeal to all lovers of the form, and would make for a great addition to any bookshelf.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 5-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Animal | Nonfiction | Stories

Topic
Animals | Short stories
Geographic Region
Canada
Main Character
Animal
Format
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Wild Animals I Have Known

Author: Seton, Earnest Thompson

Wild animals I have known (1898) by Ernest Thompson Seton, illustrated with 200 drawings. THESE STORIES are true. The animals in this book were all real characters. They lived the lives depicted here, and showed the stamp of heroism and personality more strongly by far than it has been in the power of my pen to tell. Natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common. What satisfaction would be derived from a ten-page sketch of the habits and customs of Man? How much more profitable it would be to devote that space to the life of some one great man. This is the principle I have endeavored to apply to my animals. The real personality of the individual, and his view of life are my theme, rather than the ways of the race in general, as viewed by a casual and hostile human eye.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 4-12 Grade

Genre/Category
Anthologies | Poetry

Topic
Poetry
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Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Author: Tennyson, Alfred Lord

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.

Table of Contents

List of Works by Genre and Title
List of Works in Alphabetical
Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Biography

Poetry Books :: Poems :: Plays

Poetry Books
Idylls of The King
Enoch Arden, &C

Poems
A Farewell
All Things Will Die
And Ask Ye Why These
Sad Tears Stream?
Break, Break, Break
By An Evolutionist
The Brook

The Burial of Love
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade
The Charge of the
Light Brigade
Come Down, O Maid
Come not, when I am dead
Crossing
the Bar
De Profundis
Dedicatory Poem to the Princess Alice
The
Defence of Lucknow
Fatima
Flower in the Crannied Wall
The Higher
Pantheism
In Memoriam A. H. H.
In the Garden at Swainston
The Kraken

Lady Clare
The Lady of Shalott
Lilian
Locksley Hall
The
Lotos-Eaters
The Lover’s Tale
Mariana
The Miller’s Daughter

Miscellaneous Poems and Contributions to Periodicals,
1833-68
Montenegro
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
The Oak
Ode to
Memory
The Palace of Art
The Princess
Ring Out Wild Bells
Sir
Galahad
Spring
St. Agnes’ Eve
Summer Night
Timbuctoo
To
Victor Hugo
To Virgil
Ulysses

Plays
Becket
The Cup
The Falcon
Harold
The Promise
of May
Queen Mary

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1st0-300L
2nd140-500L
3rd330-700L
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5th565-910L
6th665-1000L
7th735-1065L
8th805-1100L
9th855-1165L
10th905-1195L
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