The Earth Avails: Poems

9 best books like The Earth Avails: Poems (Mark Wunderlich): Brown Girl Dreaming, Birthday, Moxie, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ceremony, Water by the Spoonful, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1, The Carrying: Poems

Brown Girl Dreaming

Author	Jacqueline Woodson
ISBN	0399252517

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and...

Birthday

Author	Meredith Russo
ISBN	1250129834

Boyhood meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this unconventional love story by award-winning author Meredith Russo!

Two kids, Morgan and Eric, are bonded for life after being born on the same day at the same time. We meet them once a year on their shared birthday as they grow and change: as Eric figures...

Moxie

Author	Jennifer Mathieu
ISBN	1626726353

Moxie girls fight back!

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.

Viv’s mom was a punk...

Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Author

Ocean Vuong

The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...

Ceremony

Author	Leslie Marmon Silko
ISBN	0140086838

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy...

Water by the Spoonful

Author	Quiara Alegría Hudes
ISBN	1559364386

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts forge an unbreakable bond of support and love. The boundaries of family and community...

The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

Author	Merlin Tuttle
ISBN	0544382277

A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatures should be protected rather than feared.

From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect...

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1

Author

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

NEW ONGOING SERIES! Terror is born anew in this dark reimagining of Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s origin. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But a foe from her family’s...

The Carrying: Poems

Author	Ada Limon
ISBN	1571315128

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.

Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...