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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Description
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
...this writing thing was some kind of magic trick I didn't yet understand... Nikki Grimes discovered the power of writing at the tender age of six, when, alone in her room, she poured her fears, anger, and tears onto a piece of paper - and felt sweet relief. Words and faith were her most enduring companions as life flung her headlong from one harrowing experience to the next through her childhood and teenage years. Words, spilled into notebook after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
The lives of two friends are contrasted in Edwardian London. Katharine Hillbery is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents' home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham. Mary Dathcet, on the other hand, represents an alternative to marriage -- she has been to college, lives...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
"Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
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Description
Profiles several English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century such as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; and shows how their work was regarded as subversive by their contemporaries and notes their lasting influence on literature.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself.
If F. Scott Fitzgerald was the hero of the Jazz Age, Edna St. Vincent Millay, as flamboyant in her love affairs as she was in her art, was its heroine. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction, and her impact on crowds and on men was legendary....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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Description
When fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a charming, enigmatic young man who playfully refuses to tell her his name, she is intrigued--so when he is found dead in her family's pond in Amherst she is determined to discover his secret, no matter how dangerous it may prove to be.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
A biography of nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, drawing from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson's own letters to answer questions about her development as a poet and her private life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, ballet dancer and private school student Isabelle Warren and poet and baseball star Alex Rosario grow closer after meeting on a subway, bonding over their parents' expectations and their own dreams.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Original and illuminating."-The New York Times Book Review
In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another.
Camila Henriquez Urena is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
This Christian classic, originally published in 1678, has become one of the most significant and influential books in the English language. Travel with Christian on the road to the Celestial City as he fights temptation, evil, spiritual terrors, and religious pitfalls, but also encounters such helpful characters as Hopeful, Faithful, and Charity. This classic staple of religious literature is beautifully filled with profound allegories that accurately...
14) Langston Hughes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the black experience in America.
15) John Keats
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Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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