Alexa Patrick

Activism in action: big & small Part of the I Can Do It series, this nonfiction, leveled narrative gets kid thinking about how to make the world better through big and small activism in action. Filled with real-world examples, role models, and concrete tips to help kids follow their dreams, I Can Act Now will help young readers think 'yes I can' to make a difference.About the I Can Do It series: These fun Level 3 emerging readers combine photographs and illustration, facts and real-life stories, and way readers can put what they've learned into practice in an appealing learn-to-read program that combines ELA with social studies curriculum-connected topics.

Activism in action: big & small Part of the I Can Do It series, this nonfiction, leveled narrative gets kid thinking about how to make the world better through big and small activism in action. Filled with real-world examples, role models, and concrete tips to help kids follow their dreams, I Can Act Now will help young readers think 'yes I can' to make a difference.About the I Can Do It series: These fun Level 3 emerging readers combine photographs and illustration, facts and real-life stories, and way readers can put what they've learned into practice in an appealing learn-to-read program that combines ELA with social studies curriculum-connected topics.

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems muddy Black life and death, observe lineage and love stories, and question what “disappearing” teaches about Blackness and bodies. Remedies for Disappearing is gritty, sharp, and formally inventive, demonstrating Patrick’s imaginative curiosity, lyrical restraint, and confidence in her handling of language. Moments of aphoristic confession are balanced with imagistic precision as the speaker recounts the ways her aunties, sisters, and even herself have disappeared in order to survive. Patrick’s poetry is haunting and hopeful, striving to provide readers with the tools and context to acknowledge, define, and honor the complexity of Black girl/womanhood. Remedies for Disappearing connects Black girls and women to each other and to their own histories, and insists that they be fully and wholly seen.

A collection of poetry that moves from family history and the heartbreaks of navigating a predominantly white high school into adulthood, exploring the ways the speaker’s experiences echo those of an expansive and intricate history of Black girls and women.In this beautiful debut from an exciting new poet, Alexa Patrick’s Remedies for Disappearing memorializes Blackness in its quiet and unexpected forms, bringing the peripheral into focus. These poems muddy Black life and death, observe lineage and love stories, and question what “disappearing” teaches about Blackness and bodies.Remedies for Disappearing is gritty, sharp, and formally inventive, demonstrating Patrick’s imaginative curiosity, lyrical restraint, and confidence in her handling of language. Moments of aphoristic confession are balanced with imagistic precision as the speaker recounts the ways her aunties, sisters, and even herself have disappeared in order to survive.Patrick’s poetry is haunting and hopeful, striving to provide readers with the tools and context to acknowledge, define, and honor the complexity of Black girl/womanhood. Remedies for Disappearing connects Black girls and women to each other and to their own histories, and insists that they be fully and wholly seen.