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Poetry for children and young adults

Last Updated: 29-May-2015

This guide lists books of poetry and verse for children and young adults shelved in Cubberley Education Library.

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Recently received

Firefly July : a year of very short poems / selected by Paul B. Janeczko ; illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
First edition 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS586.3 .F525 2014 F
Ages 5-12; Gr.2-5
Cover image of Hi, Koo
Hi, Koo! : a year of seasons / presented by Koo and Jon J. Muth.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .U849 H5 2014
Gr.Prk-3; Guided reading M
Call me tree = Llámame árbol / Maya Christina Gonzalez ; translation / traducción, Dana Goldberg.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3607 .O5623 C35 2014
Gr.4-7
The red pencil / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Shane W. Evans.
First edition: September 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3566 .I5247 R44 2014
Lexile measure HL620L; Age 8-12; Gr.6-9
How I discovered poetry / Marilyn Nelson ; illustrations by Hadley Hooper.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .A4795 H69 2014
Ages 10 and up; Gr.7-12; Autobiography and biography; Poetry and rhymes; Coretta Scott King Author Award honor, 2015
Cover image of The new kid on the block
The new kid on the block : poems / by Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by James Stevenson.
[First paperback edition].
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » PS3566 .R36 N4 2013
Ages 8-10; Gr.3-6; Guided reading P
It's raining pigs & noodles : poems / by Jack Prelutsky ; drawings by James Stevenson.
1st ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, c2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3566 .R36 I828 2000
Lexile measure AD1090L; Ages 8-10; Gr.3-6; guided reading R
Brown girl dreaming / Jacqueline Woodson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .O64524 Z46 2014
Lexile measure 990; Ages 8 and up; Gr. 5 and up
Cover image of Caminar
Caminar / Skila Brown.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3602 .R722873 C36 2014
Ages 10-14; Gr.6-9
Cover image of Tropical secrets
Tropical secrets : Holocaust refugees in Cuba / Margarita Engle.
1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3555 .N4254 T76 2009
Lexile measure 1170; Ages 12-15; Gr.7-10
Cover image of Princess tales
Princess tales : once upon a time in rhyme with seek-and-find pictures / adapted by Grace Maccarone ; illustrated by Gail de Marcken.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .A25755 P75 2013
Ages 4-8; Gr.k-3
From the bellybutton of the moon and other summer poems = Del ombligo de la luna y otros poemas de verano / poems/poemas, Francisco X. Alarcón ; aillustrations/ilustraciones, Maya Christina Gonzalez.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3551 .L22 F76 2013
Book level 3.5; Ages 7-10; K-gr.4
Cover image of Serafina's promise
Serafina's promise : a novel in verse / by Ann E. Burg.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3602 .U7415 S47 2013
Lexile measure 590; Ages 10-14; Gr.5-8

Other books

Cover image of Animal poems
Animal poems / Valerie Worth ; pictures by Steve Jenkins.
1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .O697 A82 2007
Ages 6-12
Animal poems of the Iguazú : poems / Francisco X. Alarcón ; illustrations, Maya Christina Gonzalez = Animalario del Iguazú : poemas / Francisco X. Alarcón ; ilustraciones, Maya Christina Gonzalez.
San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press, 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3551 .L22 A85 2008
Parallel title: Animalario del Iguazú; Book level 4.9; Ages 7-12, gr. 3-6
Arroz con leche : un poema para cocinar / escrito por Jorge Argueta ; ilustrado por Fernando Vilela = Rice pudding : a cooking poem / words by Jorge Argueta ; pictures by Fernando Vilela.
Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PQ7539.2 .A67 A77 2010
Book level 2.8: Ages 4-8; Prk-Gr.3
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Bird / by Zetta Elliott ; illustrated by Shadra Strickland.
1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3605 .L463 B57 2008
Lexile measure 720; Ages 8-12; Gr.4-6
The blacker the berry : poems / by Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper.
1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3570 .H565 B53 2008 F
Ages 4-8, gr. K-2
Blue lipstick : concrete poems / by John Grandits.
New York : Clarion Books, c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3607 .R363 B56 2007
Book level 3.5; Ages 12-16; Gr.6-10
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Blues journey / by Walter Dean Myers ; illustrated by Christopher Myers.
New York : Holiday House, c2003.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .Y48 B58 2003
Book level 5; Ages 9-14; Gr.3-7
César : sí, se puede! yes, we can! / Carmen T. Bernier-Grand ; illustrated by David Diaz.
1st ed. New York : Marshall Cavendish, c2004.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3602 .E7624 C47 2004
Book level 4.3; Gr.4-7; Guided reading Y
Emma dilemma : big sister poems / by Kristine O'Connell George ; illustrated by Nancy Carpenter.
New York : Clarion Books, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3557 .E488 B54 2011
Book level 3.3; Ages 5-9; Gr.1-4
Forget-me-nots : Poems to Learn by Heart.
New York : Little Brown & Co., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS586.3 .F67 2012
Gr.2-5
Freedom like sunlight : praisesongs for Black Americans / J. Patrick Lewis ; [illustrations] John Thompson.
Mankato, Minn. : Creative Editions, 2000.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3562 .E9465 F74 2000
Book level 4.8; gr.5-12 Guided reading S
Cover image of I lay my stitches down
I lay my stitches down : poems of American slavery / written by Cynthia Grady ; illustrated by Michele Wood.
Grand Rapids Mich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3607 .R3275 I15 2012 F
Lexile measure 990; Ages 10 and up; Gr.4-7
In the land of words : new and selected poems / by Eloise Greenfield ; illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist.
1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2004.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3557 .R39416 I5 2004
Book level 3.8; Ages 4-8, gr. K-2
Make lemonade / Virginia Euwer Wolff.
1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 2006, c1993.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3573 .O5613 M35 2006
Lexile measure 890; Ages 13-18; Gr. 7-12; Guided reading Z
Mirror mirror : a book of reversible verse / Marilyn Singer ; illustrated by Josée Masse.
1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Dutton Children's Books, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .I546 M57 2010
Ages 7-12; Gr.3-6
Miss Crandall's school for young ladies and little misses of color : poems / by Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson ; pictures by Floyd Cooper.
Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3551 .L3494 M57 2007
Ages 10-15; book level 5.9; poetry, middle school & high school
Cover image of The moon
The moon / Robert Louis Stevenson ; pictures by Tracey Campbell Pearson.
1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR5489 .M57 2006
Ages 4-8; PreK-1
My Chinatown : one year in poems / by Kam Mak.
1st ed. [New York] : HarperCollins, c2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3613 .A354 M9 2002
Book level 3.8; Ages 5-8; Gr.3-5; Guided reading P
The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes ; with illustrations by E.B. Lewis.
1st ed. New York, NY : Disney Jump at the Sun Books, c2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3515 .U274 N34 2009
Poetry, gr. 1-3
October mourning : a song for Matthew Shepard / Lesléa Newman.
1st ed. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3564 .E91628 O38 2012
Ages 13 and up; Gr.8-12
One leaf rides the wind : counting in a Japanese garden / by Celeste Davidson Mannis ; pictures by Susan Kathleen Hartung.
New York : Viking, c2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3613 .A566 O54 2002
Book level 4.2; Ages 6-10; Guided reading K
Cover image of Red sings from treetops
Red sings from treetops : a year in colors / by Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, c2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .I295 R43 2009
Lexile measure 570; Book level 3.2; Ages 4-8; Gr.3-5
The robin makes a laughing sound : a birder's journal / Sallie Wolf ; designed by Micah Bornstein.
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c2010
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » QL696 .P288 W65 2010
Ages 8-15; Gr.4-8
Roots and blues : a celebration / Arnold Adoff ; paintings by R. Gregory Christie.
New York : Clarion Books, c2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3551.D66 R66 2011
Awards: Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2011; Notable Book for a Global Society 2012.; Ages 10-14, gr. 4-6
The spider and the fly / based on the poem by Mary Howitt ; with illustrations by Tony DiTerlizzi.
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PR4809 .H2 S64 2002
Book level 4.8; Ages 5-9; gr.4-7; Classics
Street love / Walter Dean Myers.
1st ed. New York : Amistad : HarperTempest, c2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .Y48 S77 2006
Book level 5.4 ; Ages 12 and up; gr.7-12
Cover image of The surrender tree
The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom / Margarita Engle.
1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3555 .N4254 S87 2008
Book level 6.4, Ages 12 and up; Gr.7-12
Swirl by swirl : spirals in nature / written by Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Beth Krommes.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .I295 S85 2011
Lexile measure 330; Ages 4-8; Gr.2-4
This is just to say : poems of apology and forgiveness / by Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .I295 T47 2007
Ages 9-13: gr.4-7
What the heart knows : chants, charms & blessings / by Newbery honor winner, Joyce Sidman ; illustrated by Caldecott honor winner, Pamela Zagarenski.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3569 .I295 W48 2013
Ages 11 and up; Gr. 7-12
The wild book / Margarita Engle.
Boston : Harcourt Children's Books, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3555 .N4254 W55 2012
Ages 11-15: gr.4-7
Cover image of Yum
Yum! mmmm! qué rico! : Americas' sproutings / haiku by Pat Mora ; pictures by Rafael López.
1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., c2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Curriculum Collection » PS3563 .O73 Y86 2007
Lexile measure 970; Book level 5.3; Ages 4-9; Gr.3-5