Adoff, Arnold

A poetic description of a tornado and its aftermath.

A young girl describes the joy and pride that running gives her.

A six-year-old boy who wants to grow up fast learns a lesson about patience from his grandmother.

One sunny afternoon while everyone is resting, Flamboyan, a young girl named after the tree whose red blossoms are the same color as her hair, dreamily flies over her Caribbean Island home.

A rythmic cycle of poems about a special day in May, when the hunter becomes the hunted.

Poems reflect a child's thoughts inside and outside, describing what he sees and feels.

A collection of poems written from the points of view of various birds.

A collection of fifty poems that explore the African-American world, written by twenty-six African-American poets of modern times.

Outlines the events which influenced the life and thoughts of Malcolm X, the African American Civil Rights leader who was killed outside his home in 1965.

Describes in verse a family with a brown-skinned mother, white-skinned father, two children, and their various relatives.