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Selected by: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by: Leslie Staub
Genre: Nonfiction (Poetry) / A.R. 5.0Poetry can be intimidating for many, but the familiar lives honored in these twelve poems break through a lot of those fears. What a great way to begin a unit on a particular person or event in history. There are bound to be references to more obscure events and details that will pique the interests of any reader to do more research. But, the poetry can certainly be enjoyed for the beauty in the language, too. From the poem, Dreamer, about Langston Hughes:
| He shared his hope and pride and pain. He wrote of life with an ebon pen and the world was never the same again. |
