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Neil Gaiman · 40 pages
This advice for travelling through a fairytale landscape might just save you from being eaten by wolves or being lost for ever, but it is also a charming metaphor for living courageously and taking risks.
Chrysanthemum
Kevin Henkes · 32 pages
Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.
You Are Special
Max Lucado · 32 pages
Punchinello's opinion of himself changes after talking to his creator.
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Patty Lovell
Even when the class bully at her new school makes fun of her, Molly remembers what her grandmother told her and she feels good about herself.
Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress
Christine Baldacchino · 32 pages
Morris is a little boy who loves using his imagination. But most of all, Morris loves wearing the tangerine dress in his classroom’s dress-up center. The children in Morris’s class don’t understand. Dresses, they say, are for girls. And Morris certainly isn’t welcome in the spaceship some of his classmates are building. Astronauts, they say, don’t wear dresses. One day when Morris feels all alone
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran · 107 pages
Reflections by the Lebanese poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.
Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
Max Ehrmann · 76 pages
Each Kindness
Jacqueline Woodson
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
All the World
Liz Garton Scanlon · 40 pages
Pictures and rhyming text celebrate a family's day spent going to the beach, shopping at the market, eating at a restaurant and spending the evening with the rest of the extended family.
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness · 224 pages
A brilliant, graphic novel written by young but promising Patrick Ness. This is the story about 13 year old Conor and his mother who is dying of cancer. Conor has to face the cruelty of real life and learn to let his close and dearest go. When no human can help him Monster appears...
The Invisible Boy
Trudy Ludwig · 36 pages
Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party... until, that is, a new kid comes to class. When Justin, the new boy, arrives, Brian is the first to make him feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a class project together, Brian finds a way to shine. From esteemed author and speaker Trudy Ludw
Good Poems for Hard Times
Charles Bukowski, Robert Burns, Hayden Carruth, Raymond Carver, Billy Collins, Noel Coward, Carl Dennis, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Dobyns, Fleur Adcock, John Donne, Rita Dove, Stephen Dunn, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Frost, Erica Funkhouser, Donald Hall, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Hardy · 356 pages
From the beloved creator of A Prairie Home Companion, a timely, thoughtful collection of poems that provide solace and wisdomWhen Garrison Keillor published Good Poems, he touched a chord in readers across America. The anthology of poems he selected for their "wit, their simplicity, their passion, and their utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with" inspired thousands
The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade
Justin Roberts · 32 pages
Sally McCabe is a very little girl, and nobody notices her, although she notices everything that goes on around her--but when she speaks out about the unkindness she sees, people start to pay attention.
Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children
Sandra L. Pinkney
Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children.
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
Florence Welch · 288 pages
The Princess Saves Herself in this One
Amanda Lovelace · 177 pages
"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration"--Publisher's website.
Lullabies
Lang Leav · 235 pages
Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey. Leav has an unnerving ability to see inside the hearts and minds of her readers. Her talent for translating