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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"After Hurricane Katrina, Alice Anderson has returned home to assess the damage to her beloved Mississippi coastline and the once-immaculate home she'd carefully cultivated for her husband, Dr. Liam Rivers, one of the community's highly respected doctors. But in the wake of this natural disaster, a more terrifying challenge emerges as Liam's mental health spirals out of control, culminating in a violent attack at knifepoint, from which Alice is saved...
63) Walt Whitman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Biography of Walt Whitman whose poetry in Leaves of grass reflected the great changes that took place in 19th century America.
65) My dyslexia
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"In this moving memoir, Schultz lays bare the inner life of a dyslexic, debunking many of the myths about the condition and showing that the effects of dyslexia reach much further than many would imagine."--P. [2] of jacket.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issue. She lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended the ballet, went to a Yankees game, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She was supposed to be having the time of her life. But what would follow was, in Plath's words, twenty-six days of pain, parties, and work which, ultimately, changed the course of her life.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Poet Amanda Gorman delivered her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 presidential inauguration, winning wide acclaim. Read about Gorman's early life, her children's and poetry books, and what she plans to do next"--
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©2000
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"June Jordan unfolds the day-by-day making of a poet and writer during the first twelve years of her life. Through Jordan's eye and ear the reader sees and hears how a great talent was forged inside a household both violent and loving, a childhood both idyllic and roiled by turmoil and conflict." "Soldier carries us into the shock of what childhood looks and feels like from the inside out. Jordan recaptures how we first come to love, how we first...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, poet Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night--and discovered the magic and impact of writing. In this memoir in verse that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An account of the writing of the "Star-Spangled Banner," detailing how Key was actually behind enemy lines at the time seeking release of a captured friend from the British, who would not allow their departure until the bombardment of Baltimore was completed.
80) Emily Dickinson
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Follows the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century poet from Amherst, Massachusetts.
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