Eloise Greenfield
6) Rosa Parks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
10) Grandpa's face
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Seeing her beloved grandfather making a mean face while he rehearses for one of his plays, Tamika becomes afraid that someday she will lose his love and he will make a mean face at her.
11) Honey, I love
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A young girl expresses what she loves about life.
Author
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
Poems by Nathaniel, a spirited nine-year-old poet who raps and rhymes about what it's like to be nine, his education, and his family life. Includes instructions for children on how to create a twelve-bar blues poem.
15) Angels
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A collection of poems which show angels guiding, comforting, and protecting Afro-American children during milestones in their lives as well as in the course of everyday activities.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The words can come from a memory, or a dream, or something I see or hear or wonder about or imagine. Maybe there's a place where words live, where our minds and hearts can go and find them when we want to write or read. I like to imagine that there is such a place. I call it "The Land of Words." In this collection of twenty-one poems, National Council of Teachers of English Excellence in Poetry for Children Award winner Eloise Greenfield journeys...
17) First pink light
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
A little Black boy determines to stay up all night so he can welcome his father home in the morning.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Brothers and sisters. Full, half, step, old and young, close in age and far apart. The bond between all siblings is powerful and special. Celebrate the love of brothers and sisters everywhere with award-winning author Eloise Greenfield in this poignant collection of poems for and about families.