A Brief List of YA Poetry Titles
Recommended by Nikki Grimes
Picture Books I See the Rhythm, Toyomi Igus
My Man Blue, Nikki Grimes
Collections Have You Been to the Beach Lately?, Ralph Fletcher
I Am Wings, Ralph Fletcher
Behind the Wheel, poems about driving, Janet Wong
Something Permanent, Cynthia Rylant
Slow Dance Heart Break Rules, Arnold Adoff
A Fire in My Hands, Gary Soto
Step Lightly, Poems for the Journey, Nancy Willard, ed.
My Own True Name, Pat Mora
Communion, Pat Mora
A Dime a Dozen, Nikki Grimes
Novels Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
Soda Jerk, Cynthia Rylant
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Testimony, Karen Hesse
Stop Pretending, Sonya Sones
What My Mother Doesn't Know, Sonya Sones
Stepping Out with Grandma Mac, Nikki Grimes
Novels Incorporating Poetry That Berries Should Grow, Gloria Whelan
Jazmin's Notebook, Nikki Grimes
Bronx Masquerade, Nikki Grimes
Anthologies I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul Janezcko, eds.
What Have You Lost?, Naomi Shihab Nye, ed.
The Space Between Our Footsteps: Poems & Paintings From the Middle East, Naomi Shihab Nye, ed.
Family Brown Honey & Broomwheat Tea, Joyce Carol Thomas; Been to Yesterdays, Lee Bennett Hopkins; Nathaniel Talking, Eloise Greenfield; Rainbow Hands, Janet Wong; Daddy Calls Me Man, Angela Johnson; I Am Tall, illus. by Javaka Steptoe; Stepping Out with Grandma Mac and A Dime A Dozen, Nikki Grimes.

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