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That Selfie Girl

Linda Oatman High (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781630783761

Macy is dead. Selfies while driving never end well. She knows it now #suckstobeme. And she has unfinished business. Her friend Ryan is planning to shoot up the school. But the afterlife is so unexpected. She gets distracted. Who knew she would find love?

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426209

The Song of Hiawatha is an epic poem inspired after the Ojibwe - a Native American tribe - myths and legends. Read about the making of the world we live in and about the adventures of Hiawatha - the hero who invented written language and discovered corn - as seen by one Amerindian tribe.

The Odyssey

Homer (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425691

Homer's Odyssey is a ancient Greek epic poem and the sequel to The Iliad. Attributed to Homer, the edition has been translated as prose by Samuel Butler. The Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero, Odysseus, and his journey home after the fall of Troy.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid

Ovid (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425486

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is an epic poem comprised of many Greek and Roman myths. The Metamorphoses may be the most influential text on Western literature and certainly the most influential poem. Ovid's telling of the myths have been retold countless times in many different mediums.

The Divine Comedy: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424656

The first section of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the first part of Divine Comedy, Dante, guided by the poet Virgil, plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. By fusing humor and satire with intellect, an immortal Christian allegory of humankind’s search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment was created.

The Divine Comedy: Purgatory

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424649

The second section of Dante's Divine Comedy. It opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell and follows his journey through Purgatory where he observes famous historical figures working through their sins.

The Divine Comedy: Paradise

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424632

The third and final section of Dante's Divine Comedy. In this volume, Dante presents a vision of Paradise relying on suggestion rather than concrete description. A journey through the realms of Paradise culminating in a vision of God. This poem also portrays the individual's struggle to attain spiritual illumination.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Anonymous (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424717

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. It tells the story Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk.

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffery Chaucer (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424373

When a group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral meet on the road, they agree to tell stories to pass the time. Each story reflects a different segment of society, from the pious to the bawdy, and has given countless readers a look into fourteenth-century English life. The stories can be read on their own or as part of the entire work and have been translated from their original middle English by D. Lain Purves.

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424045

In Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein played by her own rules; she dismissed the basic rules of the English language, dismantled the sentence and rearranged it as she pleased. The result? Free your mind and read!

William Shakespeare: Poems

William Shakespeare (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423581

Besides his notorious plays, William Shakespeare wrote many poems throughout his life, including 154 sonnets as well as many lyric descriptions from the Greek and Roman mythology like Venus and Adonis or The Rape of Lucrece. In all of them, the Bard of Avon twisted and bent the rules of the Old English language creating a unique and stupendous lyric masterpiece that awe us to this day.

Victor Hugo: Poems

Victor Hugo (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423598

Victor Hugo is not only known for his complex novels but also for his beautiful poetry. In his poems, Hugo touches a variety of subjects, from religion and royalism to nature and liberalism all striving to be spontaneous and sublime.

Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Anne Brontë (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423604

Although best-known for their novels, the Brontë sisters also left us a number of widely anthologised pieces of verse.

Prosepine and Midas

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423642

A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.

Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

Marie de France (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423253

Although she was born in France, Marie spent almost all her life in England, at the royal court of King Henry II, in the 12th century. There she wrote a series of rhymed fairy tales known as Breton lai or lays inspired from the ancient Greeks and Romans. Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France are a collection of 12 such poems written to both instruct and entertain the reader.

Don Juan

Lord Byron (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532422225

Don Juan is an epic poem by Lord Byron about a womanizing Spaniard who is sent away for dishonoring his family. His adventures lead him through slave markets and royal courts until he grows into a man who can be admired.

Christmas Eve

Robert Browning (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532421969

When the poet finds himself outside a church on Christmas Eve, he ventures inside and finds a conversation he never considered.

Chamber Music

James Joyce (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532421945

Chamber Music is a collection of poems by James Joyce, published by Elkin Mathews in May 1907. The collection originally comprised thirty-four love poems, but two further poems were added before publication.

Beowulf

Anonymous (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532421815

Epic poetry at its finest, Beowulf is one of the most studied and praised English classic. Originally written over a thousand years ago, the story celebrates Beowulf, a young Swedish nobleman who has battled monsters and dragons to keep his people safe.

Teeny Little Grief Machines

Linda Oatman High (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781612479989

Just like prose, a novel in verse tells a story. But verse is unique because readers access the text through short chapters, or poems. The varying lengths of the chapters are ideal for a struggling reader, giving them breaks to collect their thoughts, to imagine the characters in their mind's eye, and to set the scene - like a frame in a movie. Like watching a movie frame by frame, we watch Lexi is come unglued in this novel in verse. She's alienated from school and family. Her father is in the county jail. She cannot connect with her chain-smoking stepmom. Her brother, Blaine, is trapped in his own autistic world. And her infant sister's death has sent her into a spiral of grief and rebellion. Bright, witty, and irreverent, Lexi tries to navigate the rocky transition from adolescent to young woman. Winner of the 2014 Gold Moonbeam Award.