Naomi Shihab Nye

Tell me how to live so many lives at once ...Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain;...

Tell me how to live so many lives at once ...Fowzi, who beats everyone at dominoes; Ibtisam, who wanted to be a doctor; Abu Mahmoud, who knows every eggplant and peach in his West Bank garden; mysterious Uncle Mohammed, who moved to the mountain;...

A collection of seventy-two poems written especially for girls ages twelve and up by the much-honored and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye. "A lovely, rich collection that promises to be a lasting companion for young writers."--School Library Journal (starred review)First love, friendship, school, family,...

A collection of seventy-two poems written especially for girls ages twelve and up by the much-honored and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye. "A lovely, rich collection that promises to be a lasting companion for young writers."--School Library Journal (starred review)First love, friendship, school, family,...

Acclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original and never-before-published poems. A deeply moving, sometimes funny, and...

"Nye at her engaging, insightful best." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Acclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original...

"Nye at her engaging, insightful best." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Acclaimed poet and Young People's Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original...

In the midst of all this division around the world, something to bring us together.--PBS NewsHour People from around the world reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine through poetry When so much in our lives ground to a halt in the spring of...

"Emotionally resonant and stirring."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting."--Horn Book MagazineThis celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems;...

"Emotionally resonant and stirring."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting."--Horn Book MagazineThis celebratory book collects in one volume award-winning and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's most popular and accessible poems. Featuring new, never-before-published poems;...

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved poets in America, and the poem "Famous" is literally her most famous poem. It has been used in countless commencement speeches--from elementary school to university graduations. At once simple and profound, this illustrated version of...

Poems that find meaning in a world where we are so tired of meaning nothing.Author: Naomi Shihab NyeISBN-10: 1880238632ISBN-13: 9781880238639Publisher: BOA EditionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1998Pages: 65Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.18w x 0.41dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 04/01/1998 pg. 99Publishers Weekly 04/27/1998 pg. 62Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1998...

Author: Naomi Shihab NyeISBN-10: 0062691872ISBN-13: 9780062691873Publisher: Greenwillow BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/07/2024Pages: 352Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

An award-winning novel about identity, family, and friendship from renowned writer and editor Naomi Shihab Nye. The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that...

An award-winning first novel about the ties of family, friendship, and love. What is it like to be young in Palestine today? This is the focus of this stirring docunovel, which breaks new ground in YA fiction.--Booklist, boxed review.Author: Naomi Shihab NyeISBN-10: 0780797868ISBN-13: 9780780797864Publisher:...

Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.--Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us--family, friends, and...

"Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through."--Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us--family, friends, and...

Nye's sheer joy in communicating, creativity, and caring shine through.--Kirkus ReviewsA moving and celebratory poetry collection from Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye. This resonant volume explores the similarities we share with the people around us--family, friends, and...

An award-winning anthology of paired poems by men and women. In this insightful anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see...

"I am a poet," I said. "It is my destiny to do strange things." My father gripped the wheel of his car. "I am the chauffeur for foolishness." We said no more. Foolhardy missions. Life-altering conversations. Gifts--given and received. Loss. Getting lost. Wisdom delivered...

Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth...

Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn't speak each other's language, so they made up their own. They learned about each other's worlds, and they discovered...

A beautiful picture book about family and love across distance. Mona's grandmother, her Sitti, lives in a small Palestinian village on the other side of the earth. Once, Mona went to visit her. The couldn't speak each other's language, so they made up their...

This beautiful and moving book, featuring a representative collection of Traveling Stanzas poetry illustrations, celebrates the tenth anniversary of this award-winning community arts project. Launched in 2009 as a collaboration between Kent State University's Wick Poetry Center and Professor Valora Renicker's visual communication design...

A stirring anthology of sixty poems from the Middle East selected by honored anthologist, writer, and editor Naomi Shihab Nye. This beautiful collection of eloquent poems from Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, and elsewhere open windows into the hearts and souls of people we usually...

"A moving testament to the impact one person can have and the devastating effects of occupation." --Washington Post Best Poetry Books of 2019 Internationally beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye places her Palestinian American identity center stage in her latest full-length poetry collection for adults....

A beautiful collection of bilingual poems and stories from Mexico, paired with paintings by Mexican artists. "Remember, the tree is older than you are and you might find stories in its branches." So begins this wondrous collection of poems and stories from Mexico that...

The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor,...

The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that follows a young boy named Aref as he travels from Muscat, Oman, to Ann Arbor,...

"Celebrates the power of human connections."--School Library Journal (starred review)"Humorous, sensitive, and poignant."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)The stand-alone companion to National Book Award Finalist and beloved poet Naomi Shihab Nye's The Turtle of Oman. The Turtle of Michigan is a deft and accessible novel that...

Praised by the Horn Book as "both quiet and exhilarating," this novel by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye follows Aref Al-Amri as he says goodbye to everything and everyone he loves in his hometown of Muscat, Oman, as...

Praised by the Horn Book as "both quiet and exhilarating," this novel by the acclaimed poet and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye follows Aref Al-Amri as he says goodbye to everything and everyone he loves in his hometown of Muscat, Oman, as...

Here are some things Aref loves about his home. Mish-Mish, his cat The dunes in the desert His friends Diram and Sulima Fresh apricots Crispy fish served in baskets His grandfather, Sidi His excellent rock collection The turtles of OmanAref does not want to...

In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies, happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast and lunch, parent and child,...

A beautiful collection of poems from around the world selected by renowned anthologist Naomi Shihab Nye. This award-winning multicultural compilation of poetry introduces more than 125 poems from sixty-eight countries around the world, many translated into English for the first time, and offers glimpses...

They are inspiring talented stunning remarkable wiseThey are also fearless depressed hilarious impatient in love out of love pissed offAnd they want you to let them in.Author: Naomi Shihab NyeISBN-10: 0061896373ISBN-13: 9780061896378Publisher: Greenwillow BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2010Pages: 256Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.64h x 5.52w x 0.90dReview...

In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her...

Nye once again deftly charts the world through verse.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A beautifully constructed, thoughtful, and inspiring collection.--School Library Journal (starred review)Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye's uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace, humor, inspiration, and solace....

"Nye once again deftly charts the world through verse."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A beautifully constructed, thoughtful, and inspiring collection."--School Library Journal (starred review)Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye's uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace, humor, inspiration, and solace....

"Nye once again deftly charts the world through verse."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"A beautifully constructed, thoughtful, and inspiring collection."--School Library Journal (starred review)Young People's Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye's uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace, humor, inspiration, and solace....

What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?Each NightImages, dream news, fragments, flashthen fade.These darkened walls.Here, I say.Climb intothis story.Be remembered Jay Bremyer 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field...

Words Under the Words gathers into a single volume the finest poems by one of the most exciting, accessible poets in America today. This long-awaited collection draws from Naomi Shihab Nye's three critically acclaimed books: Different Ways to Pray, Yellow Glove, and National Poetry...

In You and Yours, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary. Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this...