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  | | American Ace(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 2016 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3305-3, ISBN: 0-8037-3305-4 "This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity Connor’s grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter’s confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father’s identity are a class ..." |
 | | Faster Than Light(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4734-4, ISBN: 0-8071-4734-6 "Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities, and The Cachoeira Tales, a long riff on Cha ..." |
 | | A Wreath for Emmett Till(Reprint) by Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2009 by Hmh Books For Young Readers Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-547-07636-2, ISBN: 0-547-07636-3 "A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till is "A moving elegy," says The Bulletin.In 1955 people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral held by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, and the acquittal of the men tried for th ..." |
 | | How I Discovered Poetry(Reprint) by Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2016 by Speak ISBN-13: 978-0-14-751005-1, ISBN: 0-14-751005-8 "A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view of the wo ..." |
 | | Sweethearts of Rhythm(1st Edition) The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World by Marilyn Nelson, Jerry Pinkney Hardcover, 80 Pages, Published 2009 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3187-5, ISBN: 0-8037-3187-6 "In the 1940s, as the world was at war, a remarkable jazz band performed on the American home front. This all-female band, originating from a boarding school in the heart of Mississippi, found its way to the most famous ballrooms in the country, offering solace during the hard years of the war. They dared to be an interracial group despite the cruelties of Jim Crow laws, and they dared to assert their talents though they were women in a ..." |
 | | Pemba's Song A Ghost Story by Marilyn Nelson, Tonya C. Hegamin Paperback, Published 2008 by Scholastic ISBN-13: 978-0-545-14020-1, ISBN: 0-545-14020-X "Pemba, an African-American teen, doesn't want to make the move from Brooklyn to Connecticut no matter how rosy a picture her mother tries to paint. As soon as she sees her new home, she knows something isn't right. At first, she thinks she's imagining things, like the strange mirror that reflects the image of an 18th-century girl. But then the blackouts begin. During them Pemba sees Phyllys, a slave who lived in the house centuries befo ..." |
 | | Pemba's Song A Ghost Story by Marilyn Nelson, Tonya Cherie Hegamin Hardcover, 109 Pages, Published 2008 by Scholastic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-545-02076-3, ISBN: 0-545-02076-X "A Newbery Honor winner collaborates with a new writer in this hip-hop-inspired historical thriller.A Newbery Honor winner collaborates with a new writer in this hip-hop-inspired historical thriller.;Pemba knows she's not crazy. But who is that looking out at her through her mirror's eye? And why is the apparition calling her "friend"? Her real friends are back home in Brooklyn, not in the old colonial house in Colchester, Connecticut, w ..." |
 | | The Fields of Praise(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2175-7, ISBN: 0-8071-2175-4 "In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the spirit, the vicissitudes of love, and the African American experience and arranges them as white pebbles marking our common journey toward a “monstrous love / that wants to make the world right.”Nelson is a poet of stunning power, able to bring alive the most rarified and subtle of experiences. A slave destined to become a minister preaches sermons of heartrendin ..." |
 | | A Wreath for Emmett Till (Boston Globe-Horn Book Honors (Awards)) by Marilyn Nelson, Philippe Lardy, Philippe Nelson Lardy Hardcover, 48 Pages, Published 2005 by Hmh Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-618-39752-5, ISBN: 0-618-39752-3 "In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr’s wreath, ..." |
 | | Carver(1st Edition) A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2001 by Front Street Imprint Of Boyds Mills Press ISBN-13: 978-1-886910-53-9, ISBN: 1-886910-53-7 "This collection of poems assembled by award-winning writer Marilyn Nelson provides young readers with a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor George Washington Carver. Born in 1864 and raised by white slave owners, Carver left home in search of an education and eventually earned a master’s degree in agriculture. In 1896, he was invited by Booker T. Washington to head the agricultural d ..." |
 | | Fortune's Bones(1st Edition) The Manumission Requiem (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 40 Pages, Published 2004 by Front Street, Incorporated ISBN-13: 978-1-932425-12-3, ISBN: 1-932425-12-8 "There is a skeleton on display in the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. It has been in the town for over 200 years. Over time, the bones became the subject of stories and speculation in Waterbury. In 1996 a group of community-based volunteers, working in collaboration with the museum staff, discovered that the bones were those of a slave named Fortune who had been owned by a local doctor. After Fortune's death, the doctor diss ..." |
 | | Augusta Savage The Shape of a Sculptor's Life (Hardcover) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2022 by Brown & Company Little Mrz 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-29802-5, ISBN: 0-316-29802-6 ""A powerful biography in poems about Augusta Savage, the trailblazing artist and pillar of the Harlem Renaissance-with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture"--" |
 | | Lubaya's Quiet Roar (Hardback) by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2020 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-525-55555-1, ISBN: 0-525-55555-2 "A quiet girl makes a powerful impression through her artwork in this lyrical story of introversion and peaceful protest--a stirring picture book from Newbery Honor winner Marilyn Nelson and fine artist Philemona Williamson." |
 | | The Baobab Room by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2019 by Little Bound Books ISBN-13: 978-1-947003-72-9, ISBN: 1-947003-72-0 "Here, Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, the priest fictionalized in some of Marilyn Nelson’s poems as the hermit monk “Abba Jacob,” combines his own voice with that of his fictional self to write about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood’s “best silence teacher.” Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compass ..." |
 | | How I Discovered Poetry(1st Edition) (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers) by Marilyn Nelson, Hadley Hooper Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by Dial Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8037-3304-6, ISBN: 0-8037-3304-6 " A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most celebrated poets. Looking back on her childhood in the 1950s, Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Marilyn Nelson tells the story of her development as an artist and young woman through fifty eye-opening poems. Readers are given an intimate portrait of her growing self-awareness and artistic inspiration along with a larger view o ..." |
 | | Ostrich and Lark by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2012 by Boyds Mills Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59078-702-1, ISBN: 1-59078-702-1 "Ostrich and Lark spend their days on the grasslands of southern Africa surrounded by a chorus of birdsong. From his perch in a tree Lark joins the chorus, while below Ostrich is silent. Then comes the joyful day when Ostrich finds his voice. This picture book about an unlikely friendship is the result of collaboration between the award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson and the San artists of Botswana. The story, which captures the feel of a t ..." |
 | | The Baobab Room by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 52 Pages, Published 2019 by Little Bound Books ISBN-13: 978-1-947003-53-8, ISBN: 1-947003-53-4 "Here, Father Jacques de Foiard Brown, the priest fictionalized in some of Marilyn Nelson’s poems as the hermit monk “Abba Jacob,” combines his own voice with that of his fictional self to write about how he learned to meditate from a baobab tree which was his boyhood’s “best silence teacher.” Observing the baobab and the creatures who lived in its trunk and branches taught him about beauty, friendship, generosity, vulnerability, compass ..." |
 | | My Seneca Village(1st Edition) by Marilyn Nelson Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2015 by Namelos ISBN-13: 978-1-60898-197-7, ISBN: 1-60898-197-5 "Quiet for more than 135 years, the voices of Seneca Village are rising again. Angela Riddles ponders being free-but-not-free. The orphaned Donnelly brothers get gold fever. A conjurer sees past his era and into ours. Drawing upon history and her exquisite imagination, Newbery Honor medalist, two-time Coretta Scott King Honor medalist, and National Book Award nomineee Marilyn Nelson recreates the long lost community of Seneca Village. ..." |
 | | Snook Alone(Reprint) by Marilyn Nelson, Timothy Basil Ering Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 2012 by Candlewick ISBN-13: 978-0-7636-6120-5, ISBN: 0-7636-6120-1 "A faithful little dog must survive on his own in the wild in this evocative tale of loss and reunion from acclaimed poet Marilyn Nelson and the inimitable Timothy Basil Ering. (Ages 4-7)Abba Jacob is a monk who lives on a far, far away island with his loyal rat terrier, Snook. Every day, from the wee hours of dawn till the sun sets over the sea, Snook keeps Abba Jacob company as he prays or works, tending the gardens or fixing the plumb ..." |
 | | Faster Than Light(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 by Marilyn Nelson Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2012 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-4733-7, ISBN: 0-8071-4733-8 "Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries, Faster Than Light explores widely disparate experiences through the lens of traditional poetic forms. This volume contains a selection of Marilyn Nelson's new and uncollected poems as well as work from each of her lyric histories of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century African American individuals and communities.Poems include the stories of historical figu ..." |
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