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A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children

9 best books like A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children (Caroline Kennedy): Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, Song Yet Sung, Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems, Joey Pigza Loses Control, So Big, You Come Too, If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island, Circle of Love, Higher Is Waiting

Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
AuthorAndrea Warren
ISBN0395698227
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about...
Song Yet Sung
AuthorJames McBride
ISBN1594489726
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.

In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting...
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems
AuthorMary Michaels White
Updated and illustrated for use by families from the teacher's collection "Poems Children Will Sit Still For."
A broad enough selection that most readers will find something to love. I admire the editors for trying to avoid the commonplace but instead going back to the source to find each poet's...
Joey Pigza Loses Control
AuthorJack Gantos
ISBN0060739436
Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he loves him. But Carter Pigza's not an easy guy to love. He's eager to make it up to Joey for past wrongs and to show him how to be a winner, to take control of his life. With his...
So Big
AuthorEdna Ferber
ISBN1417906774
Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her...
You Come Too
AuthorRobert Frost
ISBN0370010671

In this slim volume of 51 poems by Robert Frost, with foreword by Hyde Cox, and wood engravings by Thomas W. Nosan, you will notice that though most of the poems include people, they are all about things that grow; and many are about and for “people that grow” – children.

This collection...
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0590438298
What the book's about:
Ellen Levine's book talks about what it was like for people who immigrated to the United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1914. Although the title implies that the book talks mostly about what happened to immigrants who had their names changed at the border (whether...
Circle of Love
AuthorJoan Lowery Nixon
ISBN0440227313
The Civil War has officially ended, and Frances Mary Kelly's true love, Johnny, is back from the war. But to Frances's dismay, Johnny is hesitant to marry her. Attempting to ease her aching heart, Frances accepts an offer to go to New York City and escort a group of orphans out West to new homes. Along the...
Higher Is Waiting
AuthorTyler Perry
ISBN0525496408
In this intimate book of inspiration, Tyler Perry writes of how his faith has sustained him in hard times, centered him in good times, and enriched his life.

Higher Is Waiting is a spiritual guidebook, a collection of teachings culled from the experiences of a lifetime, meant to inspire readers...
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