Books by Nikki Grimes

Planet Middle School (2011)
A series of poems describes all the baffling changes at home and at school in twelve-year-old Joylin...

A Girl Named Mister (2010)
Bestselling author Nikki Grimes, author of Dark Sons, Barak Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope, an...

Barack Obama (2008)
When David asks his mother about the man on television, she tells him the story of Barack Obama, dis...

Is it Far to Zanzibar? (2000)
Over a dozen poems with some aspect of the African country of Tanzania as a theme....

Poems in the Attic (2015)
A young girl learns much about her mother as she reads a collection of poems written before she was ...