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The Pain Tree, and Other Teenage Angst-ridden Poetry

Twenty-five selections, the young people address a wide range of emotions while coping with the trials of growing up.

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Navajo

Shonto Begay

This unique book combines twenty of Shonto Begay's paintings with his original poetry to present an intimate look at Navajo life today.

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Singing America

Neil Philip

A rich anthology which contains poems that describe, celebrate, and bring to life the American experience.

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Dancing Moons

Nancy Wood

A collection of poems based on the spirituality and teachings of the Taos Indians of New Mexico.

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Been To Yesterdays

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Autobiographical poems capture a thirteen-year-old boy's feelings, experiences, and aspirations in one tumultuous year of his life.

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Ain't I a Woman

Illona-ed Linthwaite

Classic poems frome Maya Angelou, Sojourner Truth, Sappho, Alice Walker, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy and many more.

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Beat Voices

David Kheridan

Includes poetry from Allen Gingsberg, Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, Peter Orlovsky, Ted Joans, Leroi Jones, Philip Whalen, Lenore Kandel, and Jerry Kamstra.

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The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Includes: Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, The Village Blacksmith, A Psalm of Life, The Rainy Day, The Light of Stars, God's Acre, The Reaper and the Flowers, The Wreck o

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Rhythm Road

A collection of poems expressing movement in theme, words, and rhythm by a variety of English and American poets.

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