Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart
Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

Author: Vera B. Williams

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2001-08-21

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0060294604

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A funny book that makes you cry. A sad book that makes you laugh. A book about two sisters and their family that makes you wish you were part of it--and grateful that you are not. In short, this book is one surprise after another. The only thing that is not a surprise is that Vera B. Williams has created a wholly unforgettable, absolutely wonderful portrait of Amber, Essie, and their world. Open the book. You will never be the same again.

Something Special for Me
Something Special for Me

Author: Vera B. Williams

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1986-09-29

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0688065260

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The money jar that Rosa, Mama, and Grandma filled with their coins will be emptied to buy Rosa whatever she wants for her birthday. But what can Rosa choose that special enough-unless it's a gift they can all enjoy!

Music, Music for Everyone
Music, Music for Everyone

Author: Vera B. Williams

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1988-06-22

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 0688078117

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"Rosa organizes her friends into the Oak Street Band in order to earn money her family needs because of her Grandma's illness....Community, family and personal triumphs converge, making unforgettable music for everyone."--School Library Journal.

Poems from Homeroom
Poems from Homeroom

Author: Kathi Appelt

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780805069785

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A collection of poems about the experiences of young people and a section with information about how each poem was written to enable readers to create their own original poems.

The Poetics of Childhood
The Poetics of Childhood

Author: Roni Natov

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1135721777

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The Poetics of Childhood investigates the sensibility of childhood and the ways writers try to recapture it. It explores the earliest conceptions of innocence and the development of literature about children through contemporary times. It encompasses the pastoral, the dark pastoral, the anti-pastoral; it addresses picture books, fantasy, and realism. It looks with originality at the literature of childhood, inclusive of children's literature and literature about childhood, so that the child and adult can be seen reflexively--the child in the adult and the various stages of childhood as they are remembered and retained in adulthood. It confronts issues of primal and socially constructed desire adn the use of childhood to talk about desire. It is a poetics, a way of imagining the experience of childhood and explores childhood as a particulary fluid and porous time, it also addresses issues of creativity. This is an essential reference for teachers, parents, artists, and writers.

Cherries and Cherry Pits
Cherries and Cherry Pits

Author: Vera B. Williams

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Published: 1986-10-20

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Bidemmi, a girl from Kenya, draws pictures and tells stories about cherries.

"More More More," Said the Baby

Author: Vera B. Williams

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1996-04-25

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0688147364

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Here are Little Guy, Little Pumpkin,and Little Bird. Their grownups love them. So will you.

White Oleander
White Oleander

Author: Janet Fitch

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2006-09-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0759568170

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The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.