Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps

6 best books like Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps (WritersCorps): Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, A Wreath for Emmett Till, Between Two Skies, I Am Alfonso Jones, Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems, Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat

Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability

Author	Jennifer Bartlett
ISBN	1935955055

Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.

Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and...

A Wreath for Emmett Till

Author	Marilyn Nelson
ISBN	0618397523

In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media...

Between Two Skies

Author

Joanne O'Sullivan

Hurricane Katrina sets a teenage girl adrift. But a new life — and the promise of love — emerges in this rich, highly readable debut.

Bayou Perdu, a tiny fishing town way, way down in Louisiana, is home to sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle;...

I Am Alfonso Jones

Author	Tony Medina
ISBN	1620142635

Alfonso Jones can’t wait to play the role of Hamlet in his school’s hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit, an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun,...

Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems

Author	John Grandits
ISBN	0618568603

A 15-year-old girl named Jessie voices typical—and not so typical—teenage concerns in this unique, hilarious collection of poems. Her musings about trying out new makeup and hairstyles, playing volleyball and cello, and dealing with her annoying younger brother are never boring or predictable....

Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat

Author	Nikki Giovanni
ISBN	1402210485

Hip Hop Speaks to Children is a celebration of poetry with a beat. Poetry can have both a rhyme and a rhythm. Sometimes it is obvious; sometimes it is hidden. But either way, make no mistake, poetry is as vibrant and exciting as it gets. And when you find yourself clapping your hands or tapping your feet,...