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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A poetic exploration of the impact of Matthew Shepard's murder on the world, toldt hrough a cycle of 68 poems..
Relates, from various points of view, events from the night of October 6, 1998, when twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was lured out of a Wyoming bar, savagely beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Junio de 2086. Un virus ha terminado con la humanidad y no quedan más que dos personas en todo el planeta: un joven y un anciano que pronto dejará de existir. Estos dos últimos supervivientes contemplan las ruinas de la humanidad. Las guerras han terminado, ya no hay hambre en el mundo y las bestias creadas por el hombre fueron desapareciendo. ¿Hacía falta una gran destrucción para que alguien se emocione de nuevo ante una puesta de sol? ¿Hará...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
7) Northwood
Author
Publisher
Black Balloon Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Part fairy tale, part horror story, Northwood is a genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance. The man is violent, their affair even more so. As she struggles to free herself, she questions the difference between desire and obsession--and the brutal...
8) Red doc>
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
Description
"A Spanish-language translation of a novel in verse about the life and work of Ruben Dario, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes"--
Margarita Engle, la aclamada autora y Poeta Juvenil Laureada del Poetry Foundation, entrega una nueva y hermosa novela en verso acerca de Rubén Darío, el poeta nicaragüense y héroe popular que inició el movimiento...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After discovering that her married lover has been killed in an accident, estate lawyer Ana Kelly, alone and undone, seeks friendship with the person who she once thought of as her adversary and opposite, but who is now the only one who shares her pain--Rebecca, her lover's widow.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours her frustration onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself...
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A novel in verse that captures the unbalanced experience of an all-consuming love between two unnamed, queer, Black teen girls who move rapidly from strangerhood into a protective best friendship before becoming dysfunctional lovers and mutually destructive partners in crime.
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