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121) Seeing stars: poems
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Formats
Description
The christening -- An accommodation -- The cuckoo -- Back in the early days of the twenty-first century -- Michael -- I'll be there to love and comfort you -- The English astronaut -- Hop in, Dennis -- Upon opening the chest freezer -- Seeing stars -- Last words -- My difference -- The accident -- Aviators -- 15:30 by the elephant house -- An obituary -- Knowing what we know now -- The experience -- Collaborators -- Ricky Wilson couldn't sleep --...
129) If I ran the circus
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy imagines the fantastic animals and incredible acts he will have for his greatest of all circuses.
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
134) Floaters: poems
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From the winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize come masterfully crafted narratives of protest, grief, and love. In this collection, Martín Espada bears witness to confrontation with anti-immigrant bigotry as a tenant lawyer years ago, and now sings the praises of Central American adolescents playing soccer in an internment camp founded on that same bigotry. He knows that times of hate also call for poems of love--even in the voice of a Galápagos...
136) Casey Back at Bat
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Using the style of the original poem "Casey at the Bat," Gutman tells about Casey getting a second chance at the plate. Johnson and Fancher's illustrations combine collage with painting and take readers back to an earlier time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway.
The Grinch tries to stop Christmas from arriving by stealing all the presents and food from the village, but much to his surprise it comes anyway. Could Christmas be more than presents?
The Grinch, whose heart is two sizes too small, hates Who-ville's holiday celebrations, and plans to steal all the presents...