Imaginative and adventurous Katrina eludes her maniacal guardian to help Morty, a member of a vanishing breed of zorgles, with his quest to uncov

When her mother breaks up with yet another boyfriend, Calliope meets Jinsong at her latest middle school, who becomes her friend despite her Tour

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the e

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With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for thirteen-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his d

From the Publisher: "I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that." Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time

Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his

Lyrical text explores how Blues have been part of everyday life throughout history, from its origins in the sounds of the earth, through slaves'

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