Coleman's Poetry Browsing Project Author: Paul Fleischman

Awards: Newbery Medal

Grade Level : Elementary 

Description: The poems resound with the pulse of the cicada and the drone of the honeybee. They can be fully appreciated by an individual reader, but they're particularly striking when read aloud by two voices, making this an ideal pick for classroom use. Eric Beddows′s vibrant drawings send each insect soaring, spinning, or creeping off the page in its own unique way.- Amazon.com

Author: Charlotte Rains & Alexandra MacVean

Description:    "is a beautifully written children's poetry book filled with delightful and charming poems about well...ladybugs! They dance, they sing, and even play games with their new-found friends. These fun little creatures are sure to rhyme their way right into your child's heart! Each poem is accompanied by darling, whimsical watercolor illustrations by award-winning illustrator, Alexandra H MacVean, that are sure to bring a smile to every child's face."- Amazon

Grade Level :  Elementary / Middle School 

Author : Dr. Seuss's

Description: A book for beginner students that are learning the Alphabet

Grade Level : Elementary 

Author: Thanhha Lai 

Grade Level: Middle School 

Awards: John Newbery ; National Book Award for Young People's Literature Novel

Author: Nikki Grimes 

Description : "For twelve years, Joylin Johnson's life has been just fine. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then, everything suddenly seemed to change all at once. Her best girl friend is now flirting with her best guy friend. Her clothes seem all wrong. Jake is acting weird, and basketball isn't the same. And worst of all, there is this guy, Santiago, who appears from . . . where? What lengths will Joy go to--and who will she become--to attract his attention?"-Amazon

Grade Level : Middle School 

Author: Shel Silverstein

Description: "Come in ... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound."- amazon.com

Grade Level: Middle School

Author: Rupi Kaur

Description:"A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.
Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms." - amazon.com

Grade Level : High School

Author: Edgar Allen Poe 

Description: The Raven is also one of the most famous poems in the world. Though it did not bring him much in the way of money, this piece was, as per the author s statements, composed quite methodically, with an aim to appeal to the masses. And appeal it did, making Poe an overnight sensation, a household name almost the moment it began to circulate. Full of brooding guilt, moody atmosphere and love lost, The Raven depicts Poe s overwrought narrator and that most infamous of all fowls, the titular croaking Raven.

Grade Level: High School