My Seneca Village
By: Marilyn Nelson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: namelos
Published: June 23, 2015
Place of publication: South Hampton, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781608981977; 9781608981960; 9781608981984
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: African American neighborhoods; American poetry; Communities; Poems; Poetry; History
Work titles: Poems
Description: "One of America's most honored writers--a Newbery Honor medalist, Coretta Scott King Medalist, and a three-time National Book Award finalist--draws upon history, and her astonishing imagination, to revive the long lost community of Seneca Village."--Jacket.
Notes: Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Middle School.

NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children ; 2017.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to My Seneca village; title: The poems. Land owner; title: 15&#x00A2; futures; title: Saplings; title: Across the parade; title: African Mutual Relief Society; title: Too light for gravity; title: Under the fathomless; title: Gradual emancipation; title: Sky-land; title: Bring out your dead; title: The yellow girl; title: The Park Theatre; title: The Shakespeare riot; title: Hand-me-down petticoat; title: Wild night; title: Fire, ice, kiss; title: Tub-men; title: Conductor; title: The cotillion; title: Address; title: Babylon; title: Counting blessings; title: Thompson and Seaman vows, African Union Church; title: New York to Nicaragua; title: Nicaragua crossing; title: Penny postcard; title: Words and whispers; title: Little box; title: Council of Brothers; title: Miracle in the collection plate; title: Cassidy's; title: Professor Hesser, music lessons; title: Sisters of Charity; title: The deaf boy; title: Make-believe; title: To know; title: Rejoice with me; title: Sleep-out; title: Pig on the ice; title: The Law of Eminent Domain; title: Uncle Epiphany; title: About the poems.