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Sky scrape/city scape : poems of city life

Title
Sky scrape/city scape : poems of city life / selected by Jane Yolen ; illustrations by Ken Condon.
Publication
  • Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press ; [New York?] : [Distributed by St. Martins], 1996.
  • ©1996
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description

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  • Yolen, Jane.
  • Condon, Ken
Description
31 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
Summary
A collection of poems by Langston Hughes, Jane Yolen, Rachel Field, and other American writers depicts the sights, sounds, and energy of the city.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Juvenile works.
  • Poetry.
Study Program (note)
  • Reading Counts RC
  • Accelerated Reader AR
Contents
City / Langston Hughes -- Zebra / Judith Thurman -- Sky Scrape / City scape / Jane Yolen -- Skyscraper / Dennis Lee -- Prayers of steel / Carl Sandburg -- Skyscrappers / Rachel Field -- A lazy thought / Eve Merriam -- Commuters / Betsy Hearne -- The subway train / Leland B. Jacobs -- Red-dress girl / Ann Turner -- 74th street / Myra Cohn Livingston -- Pigeons / Lilian Moore -- Red flower / Ann Turner -- Graffiti / Jane Yolen -- A rumble / Virginia Schonborg -- Oil slick / Judith Thurman -- Flash / Lee Bennett Hopkins -- J's the jumping jay-walker / Phyllis McGinley -- In the inner city / Lucille Clifton -- Envoi: Washington Square Park / Myra Cohn Livingston -- City park / Christine Crow -- The streetcleaner's lament / Patricia Hubbell -- Clean / Ann Turner -- The city dump / Felice Holman -- Manhattan Lullaby / Norma Farber.
Call Number
J 811.08 S
ISBN
  • 1563971798
  • 9781563971792
LCCN
92061940
OCLC
  • 34950865
  • 34950865
Title
Sky scrape/city scape : poems of city life / selected by Jane Yolen ; illustrations by Ken Condon.
Publisher
Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press ; [New York?] : [Distributed by St. Martins], 1996.
Copyright Date
©1996
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Study Program
Reading Counts RC 3-5 3.4 2.0 25156.
83303. Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.9 0.5.
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Added Author
Yolen, Jane.
Condon, Ken, illustrator.
Other Form:
Online version: Sky scrape/city scape. 1st ed. Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press ; [New York? : Distributed by St. Martins, 1996] (OCoLC)760162805
Research Call Number
J 811.08 S
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