Bound To Stay Bound

Garvey's choice by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(WordSong, 2016)

BTSB #: 402528 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 3.6 MG RC: 3.5 3-5 Lexile: 620 F&P: T

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Father-son relationship - Fiction Hobbies - Fiction Novels in verse

Summary: When Garvey joins the chorus at school his newly discovered talent for singing gives him both the confidence to accept himself and a language his father will finally understand--the language of music.

Kamala Harris : rooted in justice by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2020)

BTSB #: 353892 Available

Dewey: 328.7309/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 5 LG Lexile: 890 AD

Genres:

Subjects: Harris, Kamala,|d1964- United States.|bCongress.|bSenate - Biography Women legislators - United States - Biography Legislators - United States - Biography Women presidential candidates - United States - Biography Presidential candidates - United States - Biography

Summary: The first-ever picture book biography on Senator Kamala Harris.

Legacy : women poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2021)

BTSB #: 353894 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14   


Genres:

Subjects: American poetry - African American women authors African Americans - Poetry Harlem Renaissance - Influence

Summary: Using "The Golden Shovel" method the author creates wholly original poems based on the works of the groundbreaking women poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

One last word : wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury, 2017)

BTSB #: 402544 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 10-14   
RC: 6.1 6-8 Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Poetry

Summary: 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.

Ordinary hazards : a memoir by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(WordSong, 2019)

BTSB #: 402543 Available

Dewey: 800/BAges: 12-14   
AR: 5.5 UG Lexile: 840

Genres:

Subjects: Grimes, Nikki American authors - Biography Women authors - Biography African Americans - Biography

Summary: Explores the truth of a harrowing childhood in a compelling and moving memoir in verse.

Poems in the attic by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Lee & Low Books, 2015)

BTSB #: 402551 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 6-10   
AR: 3.9 LG Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Military bases - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction Poetry - Fiction

Summary: A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was born that capture her mother's memories of living around the world and growing up as a child of an Air Force serviceperson.

Southwest sunrise by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2020)

BTSB #: 402554 Available

Dewey: EAges: 3-6   


Genres: General Fiction

Subjects: Moving - Fiction Nature - Fiction Color - Fiction African Americans - Fiction New Mexico - Fiction

Summary: Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home.

Watcher by Grimes, Nikki 

BTSB Prebound(Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2017)

BTSB #: 402555 Available

Dewey: FAges: 6-10   
AR: 4.3 LG Lexile: 700

Genres:

Subjects: Compassion Friendship Bullies Christian poetry

Summary: Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has problems of her own, no matter how much she tries to ignore them.