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Poetry Month

Poetry Month

April is Poetry Month! Celebrate in your school or library with these books from Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing.

1.
Spinster Goose
Spinster Goose Twisted Rhymes for Naughty Children By: Lisa Wheeler
Illustrated by: Sophie Blackall
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 8, 2011
Ages: above 5
Some children are simply too naughty for Mother Goose to handle. Luckily her sister Spinster Goose knows just how to deal with these uncouth urchins. Her school is home to some world-class troublemakers: they bite and pinch,...
2.
Seeing Green Book Three in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective) By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
3.
Poetrees By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 48 pages
Publication date: March 9, 2010
Ages: above 6
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his...
Other Formats: eBook
4.
Green with Envy Book Two in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective) By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publication date: February 9, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
In Green with Envy, book two in the Eco Mystery trilogy, Nancy continues her investigation into the ecological abuses at the Casa Verde resort in Costa Rica. Everything’s not as shiny and clean as it seems, and Nancy...
Other Formats: eBook
5.
Green-Eyed Monster Book One in the Eco Mystery Trilogy (Part of Nancy Drew (All New) Girl Detective) By: Carolyn Keene
This edition: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2009
Ages: 8 - 12
George, Bess, and I were so excited when we won an amazing vacation at an eco-resort in Costa Rica. Fun, sun, surf -- all in the name of ecology and helping to keep our planet clean. But, as always, dirty business seems to...
Other Formats: eBook
6.
Dinothesaurus
Dinothesaurus Prehistoric Poems and Paintings By: Douglas Florian
Illustrated by: Douglas Florian
This edition: Hardcover, 56 pages
Publication date: March 10, 2009
Ages: above 6
This book is full of dinosaurs, Both carnivores and herbivores. You’ll find a big Iguanodon, As well as clever Tro-o-don. There’s Spinosaurus and T. rex, Plus plesiosaurs with GIANT necks . . . Step back in time in...
Other Formats: eBook
7.
What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publication date: December 16, 2008
Ages: above 12
My name is Robin. This book is about me. It tells the story of what happens when after almost 15 pathetic years of loserdom, the girl of my dreams finally falls for me. That seems like it would be a good thing, right?...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
8.
Generation Green The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life By: Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: August 5, 2008
Ages: above 12
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into...
Other Formats: eBook
9.
America at War Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Edited By: Lee Bennett Hopkins / Illustrated by: Stephen Alcorn
This edition: Hardcover, 96 pages
Publication date: March 4, 2008
Ages: above 8
In this ever-timely collection of more than fifty poems and paintings divided into eight sections, one of America's most distinguished poets and anthologists, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and internationally acclaimed painter and...
10.
If A Father's Advice to His Son By: Rudyard Kipling
Illustrated by: Charles R. Smith Jr.
This edition: Hardcover, 40 pages
Publication date: March 27, 2007
Ages: above 6
What makes a boy into a man? Courage. Confidence. Patience. Integrity... For more than one hundred years, this classic poems has inspired readers to reach for the best in themselves. In pictures and words, here's...
11.
One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 25, 2005
Ages: above 12
My name is Ruby. This book is about me. It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I'm dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray, to live in L.A. with my...
Other Formats: eBook, Hardcover
12.
What My Mother Doesn't Know
What My Mother Doesn't Know By: Sonya Sones
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2003
Ages: above 12
My name is Sophie. This book is about me. It tells the heart-stoppingly riveting story of my first love. And also of my second. And, okay, my third love too. It's not that I'm boy crazy. It's just that even though I'm almost...
Other Formats: eBook
13.
True Believer By: Virginia Euwer Wolff
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
Ages: above 12
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do...
Other Formats: Hardcover
14.
If the Shoe Fits Voices From Cinderella By: Laura Whipple
Illustrated by: Laura Beingessner
This edition: Hardcover, 80 pages
Publication date: June 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella takes a fresh look at an old and favorite story. In thirty-three poems it brings to life not only the voices of well-loved characters, but also voices of characters not usually heard...
15.
The Flag of Childhood Poems From the Middle East
Selected by: Naomi Shihab Nye
This edition: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2002
Ages: 8 - 12
In this stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East, honored anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye welcomes us to this lush, vivid world and beckons us to explore. Eloquent pieces from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and...
Other Formats: eBook