Naomi Shihab Nye
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"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous," "A Valentine for Ernest Mann," "Kindness," and "Gate A-4," as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"--
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Arab American Heritage Month for Young People
Diverse Books - Near East/Levant/Arabian Peninsula Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
Palestine: Analysis, Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Children's Literature
Diverse Books - Near East/Levant/Arabian Peninsula Picture Books
Diverse Books-Muslim Children and Families
Palestine: Analysis, Fiction, Film, Poetry, and Children's Literature
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A young girl describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village on the West Bank.
When Mona, a young Arab-American girl, journeys with her father to the Middle East to meet her grandmother, she discovers that they share the universal bonds of family love
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Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. "Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain; a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag.
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A collection of poems for adults by the Palestinian American author exploring her identity, war, and the violence that separates the human race. The pro-Palestine poems are inspired by seven-year-old Janna Jihad Ayyad, who captured videos of anti-occupation protests with her mother's smartphone.
9) Habibi
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When fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
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Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate. Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another? In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time, our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet, and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.
14) Transfer
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Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved and widely read poets in America. Her speaking engagements are booked by the Steven Barclay Agency, and she appears at schools, festivals, and conferences in excess of 100 times per year.
In January 2010 Naomi Shihab Nye was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Along with this honor, Nye has received a
Lannan Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Witter Bynner Fellowship...
15) You and Yours
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Nye's last BOA collections, Red Suitcase, and, Fuel, have each sold over 12,000 copies. They are best-selling back titles. Red Suitcase is in its 5th printing. Fuel is in its 4th printing. This is her first collection since Fuel in 1998, so her many fans will be eager to read her new poems.
16) Red Suitcase
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Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous, her vision true, her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes - a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders.
Narrated by the author....
17) Fuel
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Poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing."
Narrated by the author.
19) Going going
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In San Antonio, Texas, sixteen-year-old Florrie leads her friends and a new boyfriend in a campaign which supports small businesses and protests the effects of chain stores.
20) Baby Radar
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When her mother takes her out in her stroller, a toddler encounters a variety of things, people, and animals.