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How I Discovered Poetry

by Marilyn Nelson
Hadley Hooper
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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 world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement.
 
A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.
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Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
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Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 14, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781101635391
  • Release date: January 14, 2014

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  • ISBN: 9781101635391
  • File size: 6236 KB
  • Release date: January 14, 2014
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subjects

Biography & Autobiography History Multi-Cultural Young Adult Nonfiction

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:5.2
Lexile® Measure:0
Interest Level:4-8(MG)
Text Difficulty:4

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 world around her: racial tensions, the Cold War era, and the first stirrings of the feminist movement.
 
A first-person account of African-American history, this is a book to study, discuss, and treasure.
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Biography & Autobiography History Multi-Cultural Young Adult Nonfiction