A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

Nye, Naomi Shihab (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins, c2005)
Shelf Number: J811/N994m

Written for a young female audience, a collection captures the wide array of coming-of-age emotion, drama, angst, and joy through poems dealing with friendship, school, community, love, and family.

Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems & Letters

(Orchard Books/Scholastic, c2004)
Shelf Number: J821/B659b

A critically acclaimed poet and anthologist collects the most poignant and moving musings about love from a diverse group of classic poets and writers, such as Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, and others.

Carver, A life in Poems

Nelson, Marilyn (Front Street, c2001)
Shelf Number: J811/N428c

A collection of forty-four poems--told from the point of view of Carver and the people who knew him--provides a compelling, lyrical account of the life of revered African-American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver.

Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem

Nelson, Marilyn (Front Street, c2004)
Shelf Number: J811/N428f

Presents a collection of poems written to honor the life of Fortune, a slave in eighteenth-century Connecticut whose body was donated to science upon his death.

Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry

(Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press, c2003)
Shelf Number: J811/H841h

Poems by such authors as Stephen Vincent Benet, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay address major events in American history, including the Westward movement, slavery, industrialization, and war.

I Just Hope It's Lethal: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy

(Graphia/Houghton Mifflin,c2005)
Shelf Number: J811.54/I111i

Provides a selection of poems from an array of celebrated authors, such as W.B. Yeats and Jane Kenyon, that capture the diverse drama, insanity, and high emotions of teenage existence.