Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

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  • Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

    • UPC: 046442152501
    • ASIN: 0618152504
    • ISBN: 0618152504
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: Clarion Books

    Award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George, author of several successful picture books, now turns her attention to the middle school experience. The first year brings an array of challenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school dances, and, of course, budding romance. Short, accessi... [Read More]

  • Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

    • ASIN: 0761160914
    • ISBN: 0761160914
    • Brand: Workman Publishing Company
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes;... [Read More]

  • Refugee

    • ASIN: 0545880831
    • ISBN: 9780545880831
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America .... [Read More]

  • The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About their Bodies in Pictures and Words

    • ASIN: 0316703060
    • ISBN: 9780316703062
    • Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

    An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?", and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book that includes striking black-and-white photographs taken by the author. Ideal for parents and teacher to use to discuss body image, self-esteem, and diversity with children.... [Read More]

  • The Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0140268863
    • ISBN: 9780140268867
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

    • ASIN: 0393320979
    • ISBN: 9780393320978
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age i... [Read More]

  • Brown Girl Dreaming

    • ASIN: 0147515823
    • ISBN: 9780147515827
    • Brand: Puffin Books
    • Manufacturer: Puffin Books

    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]

  • IMPERFECT: poems about mistakes: an anthology for middle schoolers

    • ASIN: 096791583X
    • ISBN: 096791583X
    • Manufacturer: History House Publishers

    Why an anthology about mistakes? Because we make mistakes all the time. Some are the size of erasing a hole in your paper, mispronouncing a word, or tripping over your shoelace. Some are the size of telling a friend's secret. Some can be useful, like a science experiment that goes wrong but gives you a new idea. How can we make the most of the good... [Read More]

  • Inside Out and Back Again

    • UPC: 884539314490
    • ASIN: 0061962791
    • ISBN: 0061962791
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye v... [Read More]

  • The Iliad

    • ASIN: 0140275363
    • ISBN: 9780140275360
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic   Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruct... [Read More]

  • The Important Book

    • UPC: 201564432270
    • ASIN: 0064432270
    • ISBN: 0064432270
    • Brand: HarperTrophy
    • Manufacturer: HarperCollins

    "Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. True poetry about perceiving the world around us."*Margaret Wise Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of the perennial classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, asks children to think deeply about the importance of everyday objects, from apples to spoons. With lyrical words and vivid illust... [Read More]

  • Grendel

    • ASIN: 0679723110
    • ISBN: 9780679723110
    • Brand: BALLANTINE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

    • ASIN: 0325098123
    • ISBN: 0325098123
    • Manufacturer: Heinemann

    Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to ... [Read More]

  • The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7)

    • ASIN: 1419705849
    • ISBN: 1419705849
    • Brand: Amulet Books
    • Manufacturer: Amulet Books

    Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out.A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone—anyone!—to go with on the big night.But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance ... [Read More]

  • The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

    • ASIN: 0451208633
    • ISBN: 0451208633
    • Brand: New American Library
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—together in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slope... [Read More]

  • The Canterbury Tales

    • UPC: 783324919059
    • ASIN: 0140424385
    • ISBN: 0140424385
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Knockout: (Middle Grade Novel in Verse, Themes of Boxing, Personal Growth, and Self Esteem, House Arrest Companion Book)

    • ASIN: 1452163588
    • ISBN: 1452163588
    • Brand: Chronicle Books
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    Levi just wants to be treated like a typical kid. As a baby, he had a serious disease that caused him respiratory issues. He's fine now, but his mom and overprotective brother still think of him as damaged, and his schoolmates see him as the same class clown he's always been. He feels stuck. So when his dad—divorced from his mom—suggests he tak... [Read More]

  • The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition) (English and Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: 0872864286
    • ISBN: 0872864286
    • Brand: Brand: City Lights Publishers
    • Manufacturer: City Lights Publishers

    This bilingual collection of Neruda's most essential poems will prove indispensable. Selected by a team of poets and prominent Neruda scholars in both Chile and the U.S., this is a definitive selection that draws from the entire breadth and width of Neruda's various styles and themes. An impressive group of translators that includes Alistair Reid,... [Read More]

  • Odyssey

    • ASIN: 0872204847
    • ISBN: 9780872204843
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    Lombardo's Odyssey offers the distinctive speed, clarity, and boldness that so distinguished his 1997 Iliad. "[Lombardo] has brought his laconic wit and love of the ribald . . . to his version of the Odyssey. His carefully honed syntax gives the narrative energy and a whirlwind pace. The lines, rhythmic and clipped, have the tautness and force of O... [Read More]

  • Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare)

    • ASIN: 1586638440
    • ISBN: 1586638440
    • Brand: Sparknotes
    • Manufacturer: SparkNotes

    Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!   Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA comp... [Read More]

  • Student's viral poem asks 'Why am I not good enough?'

    Slam Poem about Bullying

    Lincoln Middle School performs at 2016 Poetry Slam!