Miami-Dade Public Library System

The month of April is a time for you to celebrate the importance of poetry in your life. Let’s join together in this celebration by reading one or more of these Young Adult titles.

Cool salsa : bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States . edited by Lori M. Carlson. Henry Holt & Company, 1994. (Y 811 COOL)

Poems about families, parties, insults, sad memories, hot dogs and mangos all celebrating the double life of being Latino in America.

Heart to heart : new poems inspired by twentieth-century American art. edited by Jan Greenberg. Harry N. Abrams Inc, 2001. (Y 811.08 HEAR)

A compilation of poems by Americans writing about American art in the 20th century.

Hoop queens : poems. by Charles R. Smith Jr. Candlewick Press, 2003. (Y 811.08 SMIT)

A collection of twelve poems that celebrate contemporary women basketball stars.

Jazz A-B-Z : an A to Z collection of jazz portraits by Wynton Marsalis. Candlewick Press, 2005. (Y 811.6 MARS)

The greatest jazz musicians of all time are showcased in this poetic A to Z guide.

A lion's hunger : poems of first love . by Ann Turner. Marshall Cavendish, 1999.
(Y 811.54 TURNER)

Poems follow a year in a girl’s life as she meets a boy, starts dating him, falls in love and this special relationship comes to an end.

The realm of possibility . by David Levithan. Alfred A. Knopt, 2004. (Y LEVITHAN)

A variety of students at the same high school describe their ideas, experiences and relationships in a series of interconnected free verse stories.

The tale of paradise lost : based on the poem by John Milton . by Nancy Willard. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004. (Y WILLARD)

A prose retelling of John Milton’s narrative poem chronicling the war in heaven.

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