Arnold Adoff
4) Love letters
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty poems written by kids and klutzes, secret admirers and detractors, friends, enemies, and skeptics to the objects of their affection--or aversion.
6) Malcolm X
Author
Series
Publisher
T.Y. Crowell
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
"Relates briefly the life story of a convict who rises through self-education and love of his black brothers to become a leader of the black people of the United States." --
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Although they are normal and obedient pets during the day, at night Irving Dog and Ermine Cat rise and shake and roam as Daring Dog and Captain Cat, twirling capes and flashing swords and chasing crooks.
8) Flamboyan
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
One sunny afternoon while everyone is resting, Flamboyan, a young girl named after the tree whose red blossoms are the same color as her hair, dreamily flies over her Caribbean island home.
12) Greens: poems
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Illustrated poems about the color green.
13) Eats: poems
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
[1979]
Language
English
Description
Reflections on the poet's love of food and eating.
19) Ma nda la
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row Publishers
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
The sounds MA, DA, LA, HA, RA, NA, and AH (representing respectively mother, father, singing, laughing, cheering, sighing, and contentment) form a chant celebrating an African family's cultivation and harvest of a corn crop.