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Poems
In 1962, Walker Percy (1916--1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his ...
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depre...
A Novel
With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attendin...
" "I don't agree with all the choices people make," says the author. "You probably won't either. My job is to let them tell their stories." And so she...
The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woma...
In this collection, Jacqueline Osherow gives us perfectly formed, musical poems that glide between the worlds of art, architecture, literature, and re...
Where Poems Come from
A collection of poems by award-winning American author, George Ella Lyon....
The Story of a Song
Which Side Are You On? tells the story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by ...
Faucet well raincloud sea โฆ from each of these comes water. But where does Water go? To find out, honey, turn the page, dive in with tongue or toes,...
Doubles are good for lots of thingsโdouble scoops of ice cream, double features at the movies. But double vision is NOT a good kind of double. In fa...
Uses rhyme to enumerate and describe natural objects seen while walking through the woods....
The author describes how her love of words and her personal experiences evolved into a career as a writer....
This title is a fascinating and haunting memoir of a stunning past-life event that began when the author was five years old, traveling with her family...
with audio recording
Stunning illustrations and poetic text fill the pages of this enchanting picture book that celebrates nature and its evocative, peaceful beauty. The f...
A boy is hired to shepherd a boxcar of animals....
Sonny is only one of the spies at the Bradshaw house in Mozier, Alabama. But as a child he saw a tray full of dinner come flying across the front hall...
A loved book lifts you -- comforts, excites, entices. Book, in words and paintings, captures the feeling of opening to page one -- for the first or th...
From the author of Trucks Roll!, an up-in-the-clouds exploration of all things airplane. Worldโs mighty big but thereโs just one sky and itโs yo...
Set sail into the world of boats in this buoyant companion to Trucks Roll! and Planes Fly! Sails and engines paddles and oars make the trip from shore...
A girl provides a lighthearted account of the spring floods at her rural home....
Lyon and Anderson deliver this beautifully rendered picture book that shows the process of how a tapestry comes to life--from the wool sheared from pr...
One friend helps another through the pitfalls and pratfalls of a day at summer camp....
A mother describes her job working as a miner....
The rhyming verse presents all sorts of "appetizing" meals to be had outdoors, including "puddle ink to drink", "gravel crunch for lunch, and "worms a...
Harcourt School Publishers Storytown
Ginny's eyes play tricks on her, making her see everything double, but when she goes to vision screening at school and discovers that not everyone see...
Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the U...
In George Ella Lyon's new collection of poems, Back to the Light, the poet traces the course of a woman's life from girlhood, with its breakages and c...
Second edition of Lyon's award-winning first volume of poetry, now with an introduction by Robert West....
An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness....
Over the years, Grandma's basket becomes embedded in many family legends....
The author simply describes how she considered various careers as she grew and how she combined them all into her work as a writer....
The whole community comes together to help Sharonda and Mama build their house!...
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A small dog suffers from a broken heart when her dog companion dies until a veterinarian advises the family that there is only one thing to do....
An Alphabet of Trees
An alphabet book introducing the leaves from a variety of trees....
". . . poet George Ella Lyon conducts us on a journey of spiritual exploration and transcendence, convincingly invoking the anonymous voices of our re...
Five brothers and sisters drive their parents to distraction with their musical band composed of such instruments as spoons, skillets, and pots....
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