Dare to dream / by Jill Corocran -- The child / by J. Patrick Lewis -- The archaeologist's dilemma / by Alice Schertle -- Nicholas Cobb / by David L. Harrison -- Under the bridge / by Jane Yolen -- G-dog / by Joan Bransfield Graham -- By some stroke of heaven / by Ellen Hopkins -- This moment / by Georgia Heard -- Faith of a mustard seed / by Hope Anita Smith -- Jonas Salk poem / by Elaine Magliaro -- My polio shot / by Janet S. Wong -- Jean-Michel Basquiat's boyhood song / by Curtis L. Crisler -- Word from the wise / by Denise Lewis Patrick -- Gold / by Joyce Lee Wong -- The other truth / by Jacqui Robbins -- The greater sum of parts / by Julia Durango -- Grace / by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer -- Temple Grandin / by Lisa Wheeler -- Cussing at cows / by Hope Vestergaard -- Martha Graham charts a path / by Carol M. Tanzman -- Dance / by Stephanie Hemphill -- Painter / by Lee Bennett Hopkins -- Cloudscape / by Rebecca Kai Dotlich -- Journal of 73 seconds / by Joyce Sidman -- And then there's air / by Marilyn Singer -- Alien / by Rose Horowitz -- Projecting greatness / by Alan Katz -- Just like that / by Laura Purdie Salas -- A place to share / by Kelly Ramsdell Fineman -- Ripples / by Bruce Coville.
Summary:
Pairs biographical and inspirational poems focusing on people who changed their own lives and the lives of people all over the world.
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