Nikki Grimes
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Publisher Annotation: Garvey?s father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading?anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey?s life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey,...
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IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"The faucet flows like a waterfall, the bathroom floor is a distant shore, toy boats sail against the waves. An imagination-fueled adventure on the high seas is just what it takes to get little one clean."--Provided by publisher.
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2017.
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"In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance and resonance from this era -- by combining their work with her own original poetry. Using "The Golden Shovel" poetic method, Grimes has written a collection of poetry that is as gorgeous as it is thought-provoking. This special book also includes original...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, [poet] 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 ... In this ... memoir [in verse] that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki...
8) Dark Sons
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident...
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Series
Danitra Brown series volume 1
Pub. Date
c1994
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A little girl introduces her best friend through a collection of thirteen poems.
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
16) Rich
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Free is excited about a local poetry contest because of its cash prize, but when he and Dyamonde befriend a classmate who is homeless and living in a shelter, they rethink what it means to be rich or poor.
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Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Capturing the shock and reverberations of the COVID-19 pandemic through poetry, as Garvey's life goes into lockdown and his father becomes sick, Garvey must find a way to use his newfound musical skills to bring hope to both his father and himself"--
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 4
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Despite what Dyamonde and Free say, Damaria worries that she's getting fat, until a classmate's problem with diabetes causes her to change her thoughts about body image.