Showing 1–4 of 4 titles

• Genre: Poetry
• Award year: 2017

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  Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

  By Jorge Argueta, Alfonso Ruano (Illustrator), Elisa Amado (Translator)

  Twenty poems, in Spanish and English, present first-person vignettes of unaccompanied youths traveling from Central America to the U.S., hoping to find a safer life and reunite with family.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2017
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9781554988495
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  Wet Cement

  By Bob Raczka

  Children will enjoy the unusual format of the poems and their titles in this kid-friendly collection of concrete poetry.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2017
  • Middle
  • ISBN: 9781626722361
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  When Green Becomes Tomatoes

  By Julie Fogliano, Julie Morstad (Illustrator)

  Quiet, whispered poems capture the internal world of a diverse cast of children, who delight in the changing seasons.

  • Nonfiction, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2017
  • All Ages
  • ISBN: 9781596438521
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  You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen

  By Carole Boston Weatherford, Jeffery Boston Weatherford (Illustrator)

  This collection of free-verse poems offers an evocative portrait of the U.S.' first African American military pilots, who trained at the Tuskegee Institute during WWI.

  • Nonfiction, History, US History, Poetry
  • Notable Children's Books 2017
  • Older
  • ISBN: 9781481449380