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Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how the twentieth-century African American poet Langston Hughes affirms his vocation as a writer through the composition of his famous 1921 poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and work of Gwendolyn Brooks, from her early love of poetry and her first published poems as a girl in Chicago through her financial struggles as an adult during the Depression to winning the Pulitzer Prize for her second book.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
©2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Phillis Wheatley was a determined woman who was kidnapped as a child in Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. After being freed, she became the first African American woman to publish a book.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, and was raised by his grandmother, who told him many stories of the Black American experience and taught him to be proud of his race from a young age. With her guidance, Langston became a talented writer in high school, creating dramatic plays, poetry, and articles for the school paper. His career as a writer would continue to blossom. Langston pioneered jazz poetry and published nearly twenty poetry...
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