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Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A collection of poems describes a young boy's life with his working mother as he establishes his own identity and develops a close relationship with his mother's friend, Blue.

2) If you're not here, please raise your hand: poems about schools

Author

Dakos, Kalli

Publisher

Four Winds Press

Pub. Date

1990

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

An illustrated collection of poems about a variety of elementary schoool experiences.

3) When daddy prays

Author

Publisher

Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

In this collection of poems, a child expresses love and affection for Daddy and reflects on the many times Daddy talks to God.

4) Bees to trees: reading, writing, and reciting poems about nature

Author

Series

Publisher

ABDO Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

5) Casey at the bat: a ballad of the republic sung in the year 1888

Author

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

6) Under the Christmas tree: poems of Christmas

Author

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

7) Fortune's bones: the manumission requiem

Author

Nelson, Marilyn

Publisher

Front Street

Pub. Date

2004

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

8) What is goodbye?

Author

Publisher

Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children

Pub. Date

2004

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Alternating poems by a brother and sister convey their feelings about the death of their older brother and the impact it had on their family.

9) Paul Revere's ride: the landlord's tale

Author

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

10) Sidewalk chalk: poems of the city

Author

Weatherford, Carole Boston

Publisher

Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press

Pub. Date

2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

11) Nicknames to nightmares: reading, writing, and reciting poems about me

Author

Series

Publisher

ABDO Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

12) Buses to books: reading, writing, and reciting poems about school

Author

Series

Publisher

ABDO Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

13) Harlem

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

1997

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A poem celebrating the people, sights, and sounds of Harlem.

14) Fireworks to fruitcake: reading, writing, and reciting poems about holidays

Author

Series

Publisher

ABDO Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

15) Carrots to cupcakes: reading, writing, and reciting poems about food

Author

Series

Publisher

ABDO Pub. Co

Pub. Date

2008

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

16) Halloween hoots and howls

Author

Horton, Joan

Publisher

Henry Holt

Pub. Date

1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

A collection of poems celebrating Halloween, including "Tombstone Epitaphs," "The Ghost and Goblin Ball," and "The Vampire."

17) Please bury me in the library

Author

Lewis, J. Patrick

Publisher

Gulliver Books/Harcourt

Pub. Date

2005

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

18) My village: rhymes from around the world

Publisher

Frances Lincoln Children's

Pub. Date

2010

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

19) Jaha and Jamil went down the hill: an African Mother Goose

Author

Kroll, Virginia L

Publisher

Charlesbridge

Pub. Date

1995

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

20) Flicker flash

Author

Graham, Joan Bransfield

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

Description