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Once Upon a Poem: Favorite Poems that Tell Stories

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By Kevin Crossley-Holland

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The most exciting and enjoyable stories ever told in verse, illustrated throughout in full color and beautifully presented.
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Once Upon a Poem: Favotite Poems that Tell Stories

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By Kevin Crossley-Holland

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The most exciting and enjoyable stories ever told in verse, illustrated throughout in full color and beautifully presented.
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Scared Silly! A Book for the Brave

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By Marc Tolon Brown (collector and illustrator)

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An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches. Suggested for ages 5-8. JE Fic Bro.
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Monster Museum

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By Marilyn Singer

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A collection of humorous poems about the mummy, the werewolf, Count Dracula, and some of their slimy, screaming, slithery friends. Includes a "Glos-Scary" defining and explaining the origins of the Monster Museum's inhabitants. Suggested for ages 7-10. JE Fic Sin.
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In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers

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By Javaka Steptoe, illustrator

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A collection of poems celebrating African American fathers by Angela Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Carole Boston Weatherford, and others. J811 In
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Hoofprints: Horse poems

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By Jessie Haas

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A collection of more than one hundred poems celebrating horses, from ancient times to the present. Readers can take an amazing journey through 65 million years of horse history in these 104 poems that include an afterword and a glossary that provides information about historical figures and events featured in the poems.
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Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from Writerscorps

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By Nikki Giovanni (editor)

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Today my name is colorful. Yesterday my name was dead souls. Tomorrow my name will be lively spirits. My friends think my name is fire. The police think my name is burden. My parents think my name is symphony. Secretly I know my name is anything I want it to be. Paint Me Like I Am is a collection of poems by teens who have taken part in writing programs run by a national nonprofit organization called WritersCorps.

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The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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By Tupac Amaru Shakur

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Capturing the unrivaled passion and candor that made him one of America's bestselling solo recording artists, this collection of poetry offers a glimpse into Shakur's enigmatic life and its intense contradictions.
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Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States

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By Lori M. Carlson (editor)

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Teen Latino poets tell us, in English and in Spanish, who they are, where they are, and what their hopes are for the future.

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