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Antioch Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
323.11 Mar
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
323.11 Mar
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Cora Howe School - Teen Non-Fiction
323.11 Mar
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"A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal"...
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Dupont Hadley Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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McMurray Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Overton High - Teen Non-Fiction
811.6 ATK
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As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series. Sarah Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
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Yolanda, a Puerto Rican girl, tries to come to terms with her painful past as she waits to see if her uncle recovers from injuries he suffered when the towers collapsed on September 11, 2001.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Fiction
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"With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising exploration of collective mourning and crafts a masterwork that resonates far beyond the page. These poems are visually stark, a gathering of gripping verses that unmasks a dialogue of tragic truths--the stories of lives taken unjustly and too soon. Bold and deeply affecting, Dark Testament is a remarkable reckoning with...
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Antioch High - Teen Biography
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Eng Bio
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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"In this ... memoir, Margarita Engle, the first Latina woman to receive a Newbery Honor, tells of growing up as a child of two cultures during the Cold War"--Amazon.com.
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Antioch Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
811 Rey
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811 Rey
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"Originally performed at the Kennedy Center for the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, and later as a tribute to Walter Dean Myers, this stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds's rallying cry to the dreamers of the world. For Every One is just that: for every one. For every one person. For every one dream. But especially for every one kid. The kids who dream...
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Apollo Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
811 MYE
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811 MYE
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
811.54 MYE
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811.54 MYE
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more. Exhilarating and electric, these poems capture the energy and resilience of a neighborhood and a people.
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
811.6 ACE
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811.6 ACE
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
811 Ace
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811 Ace
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"In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason Reynolds's For Everyone, this poem can now be read in a...
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Fiction
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.
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Apollo Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
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Dupont Tyler Middle - Teen Biography
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B Gri Gri
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"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night - and discovered the magic and impact of writing. For many years, Nikki's notebooks were her most enduing companions. In this accessible and inspiring...
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 POE
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
811.6 HEP
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
811 Hep
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811 Hep
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
811.6 HEP
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"Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White's cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a...
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J.T. Moore Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
811.008 QUI
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811.008 QUI
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MLK Jr. Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction
811.088 QUI
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811.088 QUI
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Madison Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 RED
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Apollo Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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A new collection of bilingual poems from the bestselling editor of Cool Salsa. Ten years after the publication of the acclaimed Cool Salsa, editor Lori Marie Carlson has brought together a stunning variety of Latino poets for a long-awaited follow-up. Established and familiar names are joined by many new young voices, and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos has written the introduction. The poets collected here illuminate the difficulty...
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 RES
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 RES
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Curated by award-winning and best-selling poets, this wide-ranging poetry anthology represents twenty years of poetry from the students and alumni of Chicago's Oak Park River Forest High School Spoken Word Club.
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Apollo Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 Sha
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Non-Fiction
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17) Say her name
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Antioch Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Non-Fiction
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East Nashville Magnet High - Teen Non-Fiction
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"Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists [championing the] Black Lives Matter [cause]."--
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Cameron College Prep - Teen Biography
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Biography
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Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Non-Fiction
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811 And
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Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Antioch High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Glencliff High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Hillsboro High - Teen Non-Fiction
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"In her publishing debut, internationally acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur takes you on an intimate journey through love, loss, sacrifice, and self-discovery. In four parts -- titled Grow, Wait, Break, and Grow Again -- she shares her raw self and gives voice to experiences that connect people, inspiring readers to explore the tendencies of the heart." -- Provided by publisher.
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Antioch Middle - Teen Fiction
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Fiction
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F Wol
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Antioch Middle - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F WOL
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Creswell Arts Middle - Teen Audiobook
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Croft Middle - Teen Audiobook
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PLA F WOL
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Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.