Orem Library

A collection of poetry inspired by various leaders of civil rights. Featuring Coretta Scott King, Harvey Milk, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Sylvia Mendez, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mamie Carthan Till, Helen Zia, Josh Gibson, Dennis James Banks, Mitsuye Endo, Ellison Onizuka, Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Yunus, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Includes brief descriptions of each leader at the end of the book.

In wonderfully evocative poems, the authors explore castles of history and fantasy that have facinated people for hundreds of years--Bunratty, Hearst, Tower of London, Himeji, Bran, and Olavinlinna.

Collects poems about insects visiting a museum featuring close-up photographs of other bugs' faces.

Poems celebrate human efforts to fly, not all of them successful, from the myth of Icarus through the Montgolfiers' balloon and the Wright Brothers' first plane to the space shuttle Columbia, accompanied by information about each aircraft.

Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies.

A collection of poems about animals, school, wacky inventions, foods, and computers.

A collection of poems celebrating the joys of reading, books, libraries, and all things literary.