Concrete kids [Pocket change collective]by Leon, Amyra 

Paperback(Penguin Workshop, 2020)

BTSB #: 564369 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 12-16   
Lexile: NP F&P: Z+

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Subjects: Leon, Amyra - Childhood and youth - Poetry Racially mixed people - Poetry Narrative poetry Family problems - Poetry Foster families - Poetry Identity (Psychology) - Poetry Conduct of life - Poetry Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Poetry

Summary: Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra Leon takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon--and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.

Here in Harlem : poems in many voices by Myers, Walter Dean 

Audio Book(Findaway World, LLC, 2011)

BTSB #: P01608 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 8-11   


Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Poetry American poetry Harlem (New York, N.Y.) - Poetry

Summary: Acclaimed writer Walter Dean Myers celebrates the people of Harlem with these powerful and soulful first-person poems in the voices of the residents who make up the legendary neighborhood: basketball players, teachers, mail carriers, jazz artists, maids, veterans, nannies, students, and more.