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American Ace

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**In this eloquent first novel in verse by renowned poet Marilyn Nelson, a boy embraces his newfound genealogy and his surprising connection to American history.“A quietly powerful story about race, ignorance, and identity from a poetry master.”—Bustle“Stunning.”—Shelf Awareness“A gorgeous story that stays with you long after you finish.”—BuzzFeed**Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when ... Read more

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**In this eloquent first novel in verse by renowned poet Marilyn Nelson, a boy embraces his newfound genealogy and his surprising connection to American history.“A quietly powerful story about race, ignorance, and identity from a poetry master.”—Bustle“Stunning.”—Shelf Awareness“A gorgeous story that stays with you long after you finish.”—BuzzFeed**Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when
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Fortune's Bones

The Manumission Requiem

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**Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book AwardFor young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist.**For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the ... Read more

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**Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book AwardFor young readers comes a poetic commemoration of the life of an 18th-century slave, from a past poet laureate and three-time National Book Award finalist.**For over 200 years, the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut has housed a mysterious skeleton. In 1996, community members decided to find out what they could about it. Historians discovered that the
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Augusta Savage

The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

by Marilyn Nelson ...

**This powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education**A Black Caucus ALA Children & Young Adult Award WinnerA CCBC Children’s Choice • A CBC Teacher FavoriteAugusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A ... Read more

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**This powerful biography in poems tells the life of Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance.A Claudia Lewis Award Winner for Poetry by the Bank Street College of Education**A Black Caucus ALA Children & Young Adult Award WinnerA CCBC Children’s Choice • A CBC Teacher FavoriteAugusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A
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How I Discovered Poetry

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A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR BOOK • A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.“An intimate perspective on a tumultuous era and an homage to the power of language.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLooking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her ... Read more

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A CORETTA SCOTT KING HONOR BOOK • A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets.“An intimate perspective on a tumultuous era and an homage to the power of language.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewLooking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her
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The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems

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Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet, a Creole village in the ... Read more

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Soaring images, rhythmic language, and wry humor come together in these three narrative poems that explore travel from an African American historical and social perspective. A cab ride turns into an amazing encounter with the driver, an amateur physicist whose ideas about space and time travel spark the poet's musings on chutzpah and artistic ambition. A trip to Triolet, a Creole village in the
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American Ace

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**In this eloquent first novel in verse by renowned poet Marilyn Nelson, a boy embraces his newfound genealogy and his surprising connection to American history.“A quietly powerful story about race, ignorance, and identity from a poetry master.”—Bustle“Stunning.”—Shelf Awareness“A gorgeous story that stays with you long after you finish.”—BuzzFeed**Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when ... Read more

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**In this eloquent first novel in verse by renowned poet Marilyn Nelson, a boy embraces his newfound genealogy and his surprising connection to American history.“A quietly powerful story about race, ignorance, and identity from a poetry master.”—Bustle“Stunning.”—Shelf Awareness“A gorgeous story that stays with you long after you finish.”—BuzzFeed**Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when
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Faster Than Light

New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011

by Marilyn Nelson ...

Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities ... Read more

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Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities
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Wreath for Emmett Till

A Printz Award Winner

by Marilyn Nelson ...

A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, ... Read more

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A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley,
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The Boley Rodeo

Poems, 2008–2026

by Marilyn Nelson ...

Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a polyphonic approach to rendering American lives of the past, present, and beyond. Voices speak from varied times and places, while the sound that results is that of a full-throated choir telling often-forgotten truths about human existence.Collecting poems written since 2008, The Boley Rodeo features seven ... Read more

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Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a polyphonic approach to rendering American lives of the past, present, and beyond. Voices speak from varied times and places, while the sound that results is that of a full-throated choir telling often-forgotten truths about human existence.Collecting poems written since 2008, The Boley Rodeo features seven
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Lubaya's Quiet Roar

by Marilyn Nelson ...

Illustrated by Philemona Williamson ...

In this stirring picture book about social justice activism and the power of introverts, a quiet girl's artwork makes a big impression at a protest rally.Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson and fine artist Philemona Williamson have come together to create this lyrical, impactful story of how every child, even the quietest, can make a difference in their community and world. Young Lubaya is ... Read more

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In this stirring picture book about social justice activism and the power of introverts, a quiet girl's artwork makes a big impression at a protest rally.Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson and fine artist Philemona Williamson have come together to create this lyrical, impactful story of how every child, even the quietest, can make a difference in their community and world. Young Lubaya is
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Augusta Savage

The Shape of a Sculptor's Life

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A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished ... Read more

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A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Augusta Savage was arguably the most influential American artist of the 1930s. A gifted sculptor, Savage was commissioned to create a portrait bust of W.E.B. Du Bois for the New York Public Library. She flourished
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Carver

A Life in Poems

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Newbery Honor BookNational Book Award finalistCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookBoston Globe–Horn Book AwardFlora Stieglitz Straus AwardBeautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher.George Was... ... Read more

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Newbery Honor BookNational Book Award finalistCoretta Scott King Author Honor BookBoston Globe–Horn Book AwardFlora Stieglitz Straus AwardBeautiful verse explores agricultural scientist George Washington Carver's life and many achievements, from his work as a botanist and inventor to his unsung gifts as a painter, musician, and teacher.George Was...
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