Black girl you are Atlas by Watson, Renee 

BTSB Prebound(Kokila, 2024)

BTSB #: 922553 Available

Dewey: 811/NAges: 12-16   
Lexile: NP

Genres:

Subjects: African Americans - Poetry Women - Poetry American poetry

Summary: Using a mixture of poetic forms from haiku and tanka to prose poems and free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power with love, understanding, and celebration.

Hoop queens 2 by Smith, Charles R. 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2024)

BTSB #: 827068 In Bindery

Dewey: 811/NAges: 8-12   


Genres:

Subjects: Women basketball players - Poetry Basketball - Poetry Women - Poetry

Summary: Smith's indomitable wordplay revels in the superb talents of thirteen of the best female players in basketball. Matched with kinetic, stylized photos of the players, these upbeat poems capture the elite agility and skills the professionals bring to the game.

Milk and honey by Kaur, Rupi 

Paperback(Andrews McMeel, 2015)

BTSB #: 508282 Available

Dewey: 811/SAges: 14-18   


Genres:

Subjects: American poetry Women - Poetry

Summary: The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

Shaking things up : 14 young women who changed the world by Hood, Susan 

Paperback(Harper, 2018)

BTSB #: 462372 Temp OS

Dewey: 920/CAges: 4-8   
AR: 6.1 MG

Genres:

Subjects: Women - Biography Women - Poetry

Summary: An ensemble of female picture book creators join together to celebrate a sampling of history's young female revolutionaries, inspired by the Women's March and the ongoing focus on women's rights.

Sun and her flowers by Kaur, Rupi 

Paperback(Andrews McMeel, 2017)

BTSB #: 508646 Available

Dewey: 811.6/SAges: 14-18   


Genres:

Subjects: Self-realization - Poetry Women - Poetry

Summary: A transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation, and rising up to find a home within yourself.