Best Poems For Middle School - April 2024

Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

Award-winning poet Kristine O’Connell George, author of several successful picture books, now turns her attention to the middle school experience. The first year brings an array of challenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school dances, and, of course, budding romance. Short, accessible poems in a variety of forms, but all in a single voice—that of a new middle schooler—evoke the memorable moments of the school year, exploring situations and emotions that will resonate with preteens. Lively illustrations complement this perc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0618152504
• UPC: 046442152501
• ASIN: 0618152504
• ISBN: 0618152504
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: Clarion Books

Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks)

It’s the revolutionary English language arts study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.     Everything You Need to Ace English Language Arts . . .takes students from grammar to reading comprehension to writing with ease, including parts of speech, active and passive verbs, Greek and Latin roots and affixes; nuances in word meanings; textual analysis, authorship, structure, and other skills for reading fiction and nonfiction; and writing arguments, informative texts, and narratives. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible co... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0761160914
• ASIN: 0761160914
• ISBN: 0761160914
• Brand: Workman Publishing Company
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

Refugee

A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545880831
• ASIN: 0545880831
• ISBN: 9780545880831
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

The Best Part of Me: Children Talk About their Bodies in Pictures and Words

An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?", and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book that includes striking black-and-white photographs taken by the author. Ideal for parents and teacher to use to discuss body image, self-esteem, and diversity with children.

• ASIN: 0316703060
• ASIN: 0316703060
• ISBN: 9780316703062
• Brand: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Odyssey

• ASIN: 0140268863
• ASIN: 0140268863
• ISBN: 9780140268867
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393320979
• ASIN: 0393320979
• ISBN: 9780393320978
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, eac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147515823
• ASIN: 0147515823
• ISBN: 9780147515827
• Brand: Puffin Books
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

IMPERFECT: poems about mistakes: an anthology for middle schoolers

Why an anthology about mistakes? Because we make mistakes all the time. Some are the size of erasing a hole in your paper, mispronouncing a word, or tripping over your shoelace. Some are the size of telling a friend's secret. Some can be useful, like a science experiment that goes wrong but gives you a new idea. How can we make the most of the good mistakes and do our best to fix the ones that need fixing? Poetry can help us figure it out.

• ASIN: 096791583X
• ASIN: 096791583X
• ISBN: 096791583X
• Manufacturer: History House Publishers

Inside Out and Back Again

Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award! Inspired by the author's childhood experience as a refugee—fleeing Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon and immigrating to Alabama—this coming-of-age debut novel told in verse has been celebrated for its touching child's-eye view of family and immigration.Hà has only ever known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. Hà and her family are forced to flee as Saigon... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061962791
• UPC: 884539314490
• ASIN: 0061962791
• ISBN: 0061962791
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Iliad

The great war epic of Western literature, translated by acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles, and featured in the Netflix series The OAA Penguin Classic   Dating to the ninth century B.C., Homer’s timeless poem still vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amidst devastation and destruction, as it moves inexorably to the wrenching, tragic conclusion of the Trojan War. Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is grim and relentless, it coexists with both images of c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140275363
• ASIN: 0140275363
• ISBN: 9780140275360
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Important Book

"Rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with. True poetry about perceiving the world around us."*Margaret Wise Brown, the New York Times bestselling author of the perennial classics Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny, asks children to think deeply about the importance of everyday objects, from apples to spoons. With lyrical words and vivid illustrations by Caldecott winner Leonard Weisgard, The Important Book shows children just how important everyday objects can be.What is the most important thing about a spoon? The fact that you can eat with it? What about an apple? Or a shoe? This book he... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0064432270
• UPC: 201564432270
• ASIN: 0064432270
• ISBN: 0064432270
• Brand: HarperTrophy
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

Grendel

• ASIN: 0679723110
• ASIN: 0679723110
• ISBN: 9780679723110
• Brand: BALLANTINE
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing

Helping students put words on a page can be hard enough. "I don't have anything to write about!" they say. And when writing does happen, how do you help them develop these ideas into more effective pieces? A powerful tool to jumpstart writing In The Quickwrite Handbook, master teacher Linda Rief shares 100 compelling mentor texts and shows how to use each one as a powerful tool for sparking successful writing. Each mentor text includes "Try this" suggestions for inviting students to get started. You'll also find "Interludes" woven throughout: examples of quickwrites that students crafted into... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325098123
• ASIN: 0325098123
• ISBN: 0325098123
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

The Third Wheel (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 7)

Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out.A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone—anyone!—to go with on the big night.But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a "group of friends." But the night is long, and anything can happen along the way. Who will arrive at the dance triumphantly, and who will end up being the third wheel?

• ASIN: 1419705849
• ASIN: 1419705849
• ISBN: 1419705849
• Brand: Amulet Books
• Manufacturer: Amulet Books

The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)

The authoritative translations of The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso—together in one volume.Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.Now, for the first time, John Ciardi’s brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante’s three soaring canticles—The Inferno, The... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451208633
• ASIN: 0451208633
• ISBN: 0451208633
• Brand: New American Library
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Swimming Upstream : Middle School Poems

A collection of poems capture the feelings and experiences of a girl in middle

• UPC: 1883203
• Rating: 4.0

Middle School: Dog's Best Friend

"Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable--until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a

• UPC: 52582405
• Rating: 4.0

Middle School: Dog's Best Friend - eBook

Discover the series that inspired the Middle School movie with this hilarious installment of James Patterson's hit series starring everyone's favorite underdog, with non-stop laughs on every page.It's a dog-eat-dog world, and Rafe Khatchadorian is

• UPC: 403875894
• Rating: 3.0

MIDDLE SCHOOL DOGS BEST FRIEND

Books : MIDDLE SCHOOL DOGS BEST

• UPC: 315184088
• Rating: 3.0

Best Korean Poems Collection : Anthology of Korean Poetry

Meet the very finest of Korean poetry. This compilation of best Korean poems bring you the essence of Korean zeitgeist of the time, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced

• UPC: 688089037

POEMS (from the Great War) - 23 of WWI's best poems - eBook

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, is considered to be one of the greatest poets of WWI. His war poetry on the horrors

• UPC: 653427683

Funny Gift Notebook for School: Best Teacher You Are; Blank College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & University Inst

Funny Gift Notebook for School: Best Teacher You Are; Blank College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & University

• UPC: 958841669

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique Design

Composition Notebook College Ruled Writing Journal: Writing Journal Best Paper Notebooks Middle School High School College Students Cute Unique

• UPC: 463369582

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade & Universi

Funny Gift Notebook for High School Student: Best Student You Are: College Ruled Journal: Notepad for Elementary, Junior High, Middle Grade &

• UPC: 706774337

Vintage Classic Barber Shop Best in Town: College Ruled Line Paper Blank Journal to Write in - Lined Writing Notebook for Middle School and College St

Vintage Classic Barber Shop Best in Town: College Ruled Line Paper Blank Journal to Write in - Lined Writing Notebook for Middle School and College

• UPC: 935615325