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Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath

10 best books like Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath (Stephanie Hemphill): Chanda's Secrets, The Ropemaker, One Whole and Perfect Day, A Wreath for Emmett Till, Surrender, Black Juice, Dreamquake, Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith, John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth, Repossessed

Chanda's Secrets
AuthorAllan Stratton
ISBN1550378341
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The Ropemaker
AuthorPeter Dickinson
ISBN0385730632
Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empire together to find the mysterious magician who can save...
One Whole and Perfect Day
AuthorJudith Clarke
ISBN1932425950
In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Lily wishes she could be like the other girls in her class. But how can she? As the only sensible person in her family, she never has time to hang out with friends. Someone has to stay home to look after her brother. Maybe she should fall in love! What could be less sensible...
A Wreath for Emmett Till
AuthorMarilyn Nelson
ISBN0618397523
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...
Surrender
AuthorSonya Hartnett
ISBN0763634239
"Sophisticated young readers will be awed by the delicate, measured, heartbreaking portrait that emerges." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years, which have been clouded by frustration and humiliation. A small, unforgiving...
Black Juice
AuthorMargo Lanagan
ISBN0060743921
In this extraordinary short story collection, human frailty is put to the test by the relentless forces of dark and light, man and beast. Each tale offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs...
Dreamquake
AuthorElizabeth Knox
ISBN0374318549
The dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St. Lazarus's Eve, when elite...
Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
AuthorDeborah Heiligman
ISBN0805087214
Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, his revolutionary tract on evolution and the fundamental ideas involved, in 1859. Nearly 150 years later, the theory of evolution continues to create tension between the scientific and religious communities. Challenges about teaching the theory...
John Lennon: All I Want is the Truth
AuthorElizabeth Partridge
ISBN0670059544
Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Partridge dives into Lennon’s life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid on Liverpool, deftly taking us through his turbulent childhood and his rebellious rock’n’roll teens to his celebrated life writing, recording, and performing...
Repossessed
AuthorA.M. Jenkins
ISBN0060835680
Don't call me a demon. I prefer the term Fallen Angel.

Everybody deserves a vacation, right? Especially if you have a pointless job like tormenting the damned. So who could blame me for blowing off my duties and taking a small, unauthorized break?

Besides, I've always wanted to see...
Punkzilla
AuthorAdam Rapp
ISBN0763630314
An award-winning writer and playwright hits the open road for a searing novel-in-letters about a street kid on a highstakes trek across America.

For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit and a life of petty crime in Portland, Oregon, is a prelude to a mission: reconnecting...
Keesha's House
AuthorHelen Frost
ISBN0374400121
An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems

Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can’t make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason – Stephie’s...
Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
AuthorJan Greenberg
ISBN0810943867
Fantastic concept. Seeing the works of art through the poets' eyes really helped me see more in them, connect with them on a deeper level. Many were new to me, though, and that was interesting, too.

I really liked what Bobbi Katz did in "Lessons from a Painting by Rothko" for one of Marc Rothko's...
The White Bicycle
AuthorBeverley Brenna
ISBN0889954836
The White Bicycle is the third stand-alone title in the Wild Orchid series about a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. This installment chronicles Taylor Jane's travels to the south of France where she spends a summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. Including flashbacks into Taylor's earliest...
Many Stones
AuthorCarolyn Coman
ISBN0142301485
I really enjoyed this realistic fiction novel that centered around the strained relationship between a teenage girl and her father.

The main character, Berry, is the younger sibling by quite a few years. When she was in middle school, Laura, her older sister, was in college. Their father had...
True Believer
AuthorVirginia Euwer Wolff
ISBN0689852886
LaVaughn is fifteen now, and she's still fiercely determined to go to college. But that's the only thing she's sure about. Loyalty to her father bubbles up as her mother grows closer to a new man. The two girls she used to do everything with have chosen a path LaVaughn wants no part of. And then there's Jody....
Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial
AuthorJen Bryant
ISBN0375840478
The year is 1925, and the students of Dayton, Tennessee, are ready for a summer of fishing, swimming, some working, and drinking root beer floats at Robinson’s Drugstore. But when their science teacher, J. T. Scopes, is arrested for having taught Darwin’s theory of evolution in class, it seems...
Freewill
AuthorChris Lynch
ISBN0747562660
Will knows he is meant to be a pilot. But instead he finds himself with a bunch of kids in wood shop, in a school that's known as Hopeless High. Will doesn't know what he's doing there—or mabye he just doesn't want to admit the truth. Once upon a time he made beautiful things like gnomes, whirligigs, and furniture....
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
AuthorMargarita Engle
ISBN0805077065
A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet.

Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young...
Becoming Billie Holiday
AuthorCarole Boston Weatherford
Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave birth to a daughter she named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time. Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty,...
Sweetgrass Basket
AuthorMarlene Carvell
ISBN0525475478
In prose poetry and alternating voices, Marlene Carvell weaves a heartbreakingly beautiful story based on the real-life experiences of Native American children. Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation...
Frida: ¡Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!
AuthorCarmen T. Bernier-Grand
ISBN0761453369
"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,
hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,
I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studio
that Diego so lovingly built for me.

I dip the brush in blood-red paint
and, embracing life with all its light,
I print on a...
Tuesdays with Morrie: curriculum unit
AuthorBrigid O'Donoghue
ISBN1560778520
This book has been lying around my house for what seemed like ages and it was only today that I actually read it.

Honestly I was hesitant to read it mostly because it seemed like the annoying self-help book that seem to be dominating the lives of North American society. It was a self-help book and...
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