Naomi Shihab Nye

Habibi

von Naomi Shihab Nye

Fourteen-year-old Liyana Abboud would rather not have to change her life...especially now that she has been kissed, for the very first time and quite by surprise, by a boy named Jackson.

But when her parents...

I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?

von Naomi Shihab Nye

"I am a poet," I said. "It is my destiny to do strange things."

My father gripped the wheel of his car. "I am the chauffeur for foolishness."

We said no more.

Foolhardy missions. Life-altering conversations....

Honeybee

von Naomi Shihab Nye

Honey. Beeswax. Pollinate. Hive. Colony. Work. Dance. Communicate. Industrious. Buzz. Sting. Cooperate.

Where would we be without them? Where would we be without one another?

In eighty-two poems and paragraphs,...

There Is No Long Distance Now

von Naomi Shihab Nye

In these forty life-altering, life-affirming, and extremely short short stories, the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye proposes that no matter how great the divide between friends, siblings, life and death,...

This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from Around the World

von Naomi Shihab Nye

A multicultural anthology of poems represents the poetic voices, observations, traditions, and stories of people from some sixty countries around the world.

I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: A Book of Her Poems & His Poems Collected in Pairs

von Naomi Shihab Nye & Paul B. Janeczko

In this award-winning anthology, the editors grouped almost 200 poems into pairs to demonstrate the different ways in which male and female poets see the same topics. How women see men, how boys see girls, and...