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With themes of family, love, kindness, empathy, grief, growing up, and resilience, these one hundred never-before-published poems by the beloved poet, speaker, and teacher Naomi Shihab Nye will resonate with a wide audience.

National Book Award finalist and former Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye’s Grace Notes: Poems about…


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1 author picked Grace Notes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This rich, relatable poetry collection focuses on Naomi's relationship with her mother. It's marketed as Young Adult, but it's definitely for anyone at any age who has a mother. I recorded a bunch of wonderful/inspiring/original lines in my writing notebook. It made me want to further explore my relationship with my mother in my own writing.

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