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The Classic Anthology Expanded and Updated On the Art of Poetry AMERICA STREET THE ELOQUENT POEM A Multicultural Anthology of Stories 128 Contemporary Poems and Revised Edition Their Making Edited by Anne Mazer & Brice Particelli Edited by Elise Paschen

“A collection of short The Eloquent Poem is an stories that brilliantly anthology of never-before- capture defining published poems by more moments in the lives than 100 contemporary of a diverse group of poets, divided into American children and fourteen sections: teens.” Ars Poetica; Litanies, —Kirkus (starred) Catalogs, & Lists; Epistles & Postcards; Poems in The revised edition of Form; Persona Poems; America Street is the Myth Poems; Ekphrasis; perfect short story Aubades & Nocturnes; anthology for classrooms Eclogues; Aphorisms; today. Timely and relevant, Prose Poems; Mirror its twenty stories feature Poems; Concrete Poems; young protagonists and Collage Poems. from a wide array of circumstances, backgrounds, and ethnicities, some immigrants Illuminating micro-essays from the poets on their poems and others American-born. The stories focus on life issues, from give insight into the work and its relation to its poetic tradition. the personal to the political: from making friends and keeping The Eloquent Poem is perfect for both students of poetry and up traditions to the right to an equal education and to protest. A poetry lovers. greatly expanded and updated edition of the 1993 publication. Authors included are: Quraysh Ali Lansanna, David Baker, Authors included are: Duane Big Eagle, Marina Budhos, Mary Jo Bang, Tina Chang, Michael Collier, Billy Collins, Martha Norma Elia Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, Lan Samantha Chang, Collins, Kwame Dawes, Cornelius Eady, Martín Espada, Calvin Tope Folarin, Rivka Galchen, Joseph Geha, Veera Hiranandani, Forbes, Forrest Gander, Rigoberto González, Kimiko Hahn, Langston Hughes, Gish Jen, Edward P. Jones, Francisco Joy Harjo, Edward Hirsch, Angela Jackson, Major Jackson, Joy Jiménez, Mary K. Mazotti, Toshio Mori, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ladin, Randall Mann, Paul Muldoon, Marilyn Nelson, Aimee Susan Power, Gary Soto, Justin Torres, and Michele Wallace. Nezhukumatathil, Stanley Plumly, Grace Schulman, Elizabeth Spires, Rosanna Warren, Eleanor Wilner, and many others. Ages 12+. pbk., 224 pp., $13.95, ISBN 978-0-89255-491-1 eBook ISBN 978-0-89255-501-7, Downloadable Teacher’s Guide Ages 14+, pbk., 296 pp., $20.00, ISBN 978-0-89255-500-0

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Fiction Anthologies About Youth Experience

SUDDEN FLASH YOUTH FIRST SIGHTINGS 65 Short-Short Stories Contemporary Stories of Edited by American Youth Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Edited by John Loughery Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman 20 powerful stories written by some In no more than 1000 words, young of our best fiction writers, arranged by protagonists examine crucial age, chronicling the rites of passage moments of decision and challenge, experienced by young people today. involving love, faith, sports, T. C. Bambara, B. Barich, M. Chabon, accidents, toys, pets, slavery, the E. J. Gaines, G. Jen, B. Kingsolver, end of the world—from the historical R. McKnight, J.C. Oates, P. Roth, past into virtual reality and beyond. J. Updike, H. M. Viramontes, et al. Authors include Steve Almond, Ron Ages 12+, pbk, 320 pp., $14.95 Carlson, Dave Eggers, Naomi Shihab 978-0-89255-187-3 Nye, Alice Walker, Sholeh Wolpé, and 59 others. Ages 14+, pbk/e-bk, 224 pp., $13.95 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-371-6

BIG CITY COOL FISHING FOR CHICKENS Short Stories About Urban Youth Short Stories About Rural Youth Edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Edited by Jim Heynen Helen S. Weiss 17 short stories take readers into the 14 multicultural stories of growing up lives of young people growing up in in cities—New York City, Los Angeles, rural settings, from the backwoods DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, Las Vegas, of New England to a ranch in the Morehead City (NC), Paterson (NJ), West. P. Benedict, N. Dauenhauer, and elsewhere. T. E. Bethancourt, T. Earley, E. Gansworth, J. Heynen, Walter Dean Myers, J. R. Ritter, L. Nordan, T. Rivera, W. Stegner, N. Shusterman, Amy Tan, et al. K.Tyau, A. Villanueva, A. Walker, Ages 12+, pbk, 192 pp., $11.95 H. Yamamoto, et al. Downloadable Teacher’s Guide Ages 12+, pbk, 177 pp., $9.95 978-0-89255-278-8 978-0-89255-265-8

INTO THE WIDENING WORLD A WALK IN MY WORLD International Coming-of-Age International Short Stories Stories About Youth Edited by John Loughery Edited by Anne Mazer Stories of universal rites of passage These classic contemporary and culture-specific complexities, from stories written by world greats take 22 countries. P. Carey, M. Drabble, readers around the world to meet M. Ekström, N. Gordimer, H. Jin, kindred spirits on their journeys M. Vargas Llosa, N. Mahfouz, G. G. into adulthood. A. A. Aidoo, H. Böll, Márquez, Y. Mishima, B. Mukherjee, I. Calvino, A. Desai, Xiao Hong, Y. V. Naipaul, B. Okri, T. Tolstaya, Kawabata, J. Kincaid, N. Mahfouz, F. Z. Wicomb, B. Wongar, et al. O’Connor, V. S. Pritchett, V. Rasputin, Ages 14+, pbk, 268 pp., $15.95 C. Sandel, A. Skármeta, et al. 978-0-89255-204-7 Ages 12+, pbk, 224 pp., $12.95 978-0-89255-249-8 FEATURED BACKLIST

Youth Nonfiction Classic Immigration Narratives

THE ELOQUENT ESSAY IMAGINING AMERICA An Anthology of Classic & Stories from the Promised Land Creative Nonfiction Edited by Wesley Brown and Edited by John Loughery Amy Ling This anthology shows the essay From 1900 to the present, 38 stories form at its most varied and dramatic, of the immigrant experience. Sui Sin arranged chronologically and written Far, T. Mori, B. Malamud, A. Baraka, by some of our most engaging J. Díaz, C. Divakaruni, J. Hagedorn, authors. Abbey, Auden, Didion, Iyer, E. Danticat, S. Alexi, O. Hijuelos, M. L. King, Jr., Kingsolver, Orwell, L. M. Leong, S. Cisneros, G. Paley, Sagan, Tan, Welty, and more. A. Walker, H. Yamamoto, et al. Ages 14+, pbk, 192 pp., $14.95 Ages 14+, pbk, 384 pp., $18.95 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-277-1 978-0-89255-241-2

GOING WHERE I’M COMING FROM VISIONS OF AMERICA Memoirs of American Youth Personal Narratives Edited by Anne Mazer from the Promised Land 14 personal memoirs by some Edited by Wesley Brown and of America’s finest writers, these Amy Ling autobiographical narratives 36 writers of diverse backgrounds are journeys of self-discovery. examine personal experiences of being Showcasing diverse experiences, an American with roots in a different immigrant and native-born, rural culture. James Baldwin, Joan Didion, and urban, and more. A nonfiction W. E. B. Du Bois. F. Scott Fitzgerald, companion to America Street. Maxine Hong Kingston, Ron Kovic, Ages 12+, pbk, 166 pp., $10.95 Mario Puzo, Adrienne Rich, et al. 978-0-89255-206-1 Ages 14+, pbk, 369 pp., $20.00 978-0-89255-174-3

STARTING WITH “I” Classroom Bestseller Personal Essays by Teenagers BREAD GIVERS: A Novel By Youth Communication By Anzia Yezierska Edited by Andrea Estepa and Introduction by Philip Kay Alice Kessler-Harris Foreword by Edwidge Danticat The widely heralded novel of an 35 frank, intimate personal essays Orthodox Jewish immigrant girl who by high school students, on dating, rebels against tradition in order to parents, violence, jobs, visas, sports, become an American, free to love and college that will inspire teens and work as she chooses. Includes to write. 16 b/w photographs. Ages 14+, pbk, 224 pp., $15.95 Ages 12+, pbk/e-bk, 336 pp., $14.95 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-290-0 978-0-89255-228-3

JESSIE DE LA CRUZ A BOY FROM IRELAND: A Novel A Profile of a United Farm Worker By Marie Raphael By Gary Soto In this fast-paced story, an immigrant The true-life story of a child migrant Irish boy triumphs over a bully and worker who became the UFW’s first over prejudice handed down for female organizer and an activist in the generations—of English against Irish, fight for workers’ rights. blacks against whites. Raises issues “Teens will be caught up in the facts of race, religion and bullying. of Jessie’s hardship and struggle ... “A book you will want to share.” Stirring American history.” —Booklist —Howard Zinn “It is a woman like Jessie who gives Ages 12+, pbk/e-bk, 224 pp., $11.95 us hope.” —Studs Terkel 978-0-89255-426-3 Ages 10+, pbk/e-bk, 128 pp., $11.95 978-0-89255-285-6 FEATURED BACKLIST

The Art of the Story Classic Novels

THE ELOQUENT SHORT STORY New Anniversary Edition An Anthology of Narrative Styles OUR HOUSE IN THE LAST WORLD Edited by Lucy Rosenthal By Oscar Hijuelos 23 short story gems, showing the With a new Foreword by Pablo richness and vitality of the form, Medina arranged by storytelling mode. “A towering achievement.” M. Atwood, R. Olen Butler, J. Diaz, —Junot Díaz L. Erdrich, I. Frazier, Z. N. Hurston, Pulitzer Prize winner Hijuelos’s debut J. Lahiri, T. O’Brien, ZZ Packer, depicts the struggle of an American- J. Thurber, et al. born son of Cuban immigrants to Ages 14+, pbk, 256 pp., $14.95 make sense of his “Cubanness” amid Downloadable Teacher’s Guide the harsh realities of 1960s New 978-0-89255-292-4 York City. “Never loses the syntax of magic ...a novel of great warmth and tenderness.” (NYTBR). Includes Author’s Introduction and Afterword, Ages 16+, pbk, 240 pp. $15.95, 978-0-89255-484-3

SHORT STREETS OF GOLD An International Anthology of Five A Novel by Marie Raphael Centuries of Short-Short Stories, An immigrant Polish girl uses her wits Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and and talent to survive after fleeing the Other Short Prose Forms Russian czar’s soldiers, only to be Edited by Alan Ziegler separated from her parents at Ellis Accessible works of 1250 words or Island. Set in 1901, the novel traces less from nearly 200 contributors: Marisia’s journey from mere survival Montaigne, E. A. Poe, G. Stein, J. on New York City’s Lower East Side L. Borges, C. Lispector, M. Atwood, to turning her dream of becoming an E. Keret, T. Tranströmer, L. Davis, artist into reality. B. Lerner, C. Rankine, C. Milosz, Y. Ages 12+, pbk/e-bk, 216 pp., $12.95 Komunyakaa, and J. D. Harjo, et. al. 978-0-89255-256-6 Ages 16+, pbk/e-bk, 352 pp., $18.95 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-432-4

12 SHORT STORIES Classroom Bestseller AND THEIR MAKING NIGHTFATHER An Anthology of Short Stories and By Carl Friedman Interviews with the Authors A father recounts his experiences Edited by Paul Mandelbaum in a Nazi concentration camp to a 12 stories selected as striking spellbound young daughter and two examples of the fiction craft, including sons. insightful original interviews with “A terse, haunted novel with the tone their critically acclaimed authors on and rhythm of a child’s tale ... the narrative process. S. Cisneros, heart-wrenching.” —New York Times K. Edwards, A. Gurganus, W. Kirn, J. Ages 12+, pbk, 136 pp., $9.95 Lahiri, U.K. Le Guin, T. Wolff, et al. Downloadable Teacher’s Guide Ages 14+, pbk, 356 pp., $18.95 978-0-89255-210-8 978-0-89255-312-9 FEATURED BACKLIST

Novels in Poems & Journals About Being Adopted Other Favorites

THE SECRET OF ME: HEART OF THE ORDER A Novel in Poems Baseball Poems: An Anthology By Meg Kearney Edited by Gabriel Fried “A must-read novel-in-verse.” Foreword by Daniel Okrent —Kelly Jensen From stickball and sandlot games to Little League and the Majors, from A widely taught, compelling entrée to heroes like Paige and the Babe to poetry. 14-year-old Lizzie struggles to a shy girl with a mean slider, all are make sense of her life as an adopted rendered in measured lines by B. H. child. Told entirely through her own Fairchild, L. Gregerson, D. Hall, E. heartfelt poems, Lizzie’s story “pulls Hirsch, Y. Komunyakaa, T. Lux, W. the reader in, allowing one to feel Matthews, G. Mazur, M. Moore, R. what the character feels” (VOYA). Pinsky, M. Swenson, Q. Troupe, and Ages 12+, pbk, 136 pp., $13.95 60 others. Downloadable Teacher’s Guide Ages 14+, pbk, 168 pp., $17.95 978-0-89255-336-5 978-0-89255-435-5

THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR SHOW ME A HERO A Novel in Poems and Great Contemporary Stories Journal Entries About Sports By Meg Kearney Edited by Jeanne Schinto Lizzie, now 17, begins to search 21 stories about winning and losing, for her birth mother when another teamwork and competition not just on devastating loss overtakes her. the sports field but also in the bigger Lizzie’s story chronicles how game of life. J. Baumbach, T. Cade friendship and the profound bond Bambara, G. Keillor, A. Packer, of love between an adoptee and her J. Shepard, et al. parents—known and unknown— Ages 14+, pbk, 265 pp., $13.95 save her from emotional crisis. 978-0-89255-209-2 Ages 14+, pbk, 146 pp., $15.00 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-385-3

WHEN YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE VIRTUALLY NOW An Adoptee’s Search for Stories of Science, Technology, Her Birth Mother and the Future A Novel in Poems and Journal Edited by Jeanne Schinto Entries By Meg Kearney 15 stories by established figures Now studying at NYU in the city and notable new writers about where she was born, Lizzie is aliens, cyberspace, and everything determined to find her birth mother. high-tech. M. Atwood, O. Butler, S. She braves the pitfalls of desire and Dixon, K.J. Fowler, U.K. Le Guin, D. fear, and bureaucratic obstacles to Lessing, et al. succeed. Ages 14+, pbk, 272 pp., $13.95 Ages 14+, hc, 280 pp., $17.95 978-0-89255-220-7 Downloadable Teacher’s Guide 978-0-89255-479-9

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