Naomi Shihab Nye
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nineteen poems about the Middle East and about being an Arab American living in the United States. "Tell me how to live so many lives at once ..." Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain a girl in a red sweater dangling a book bag children in velvet dresses who haunt the candy bowl at the party...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and yield signs, and instruction booklets, and star maps, and happiness, and loneliness. And friends. And sisters. And love. And poetry. Life is a maze. You are a maze. Amazed.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed"--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Everything Comes Next contains Naomi Shihab Nye's most beloved poems, including "Famous, " "A Valentine for Ernest Mann, " "Kindness, " and "Gate A-4, " as well as new, unpublished poems. It is an introduction to the poet's work for new readers, as well as a comprehensive edition for classrooms"--