Poetry
189 books
Browse 189 Accelerated Reader Poetry books across all grade levels. Each entry includes the AR reading level, quiz point value, and word count.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas; Or, Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas
Anonymous · Candlewick Press

100 Best Poems for Children
Roger McGough · Viking Juvenile

100 Brilliant Poems for Children
Paul Cookson · Macmillan Children's Books

A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson · Chronicle Books
A New School Year
Sally Derby · Charlesbridge Publishing

A-Hunting We Will Go!
Steven Kellogg · HarperTrophy

All Day Saturday
Charles Causley · Macmillan Children's Books
All in a Day
Cynthia Rylant · Abrams

All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
Valerie Worth · Square Fish

All the World
Elizabeth Garton Scanlon · Simon & Schuster

All You Need For a Snowman
Alice Schertle · Silver Whistle

Animal snackers
Betsy Lewin · Scholastic, inc

Applebet
Clyde Watson · Sunburst

Around the Zoo With Baboon
Meish Goldish · Harcourt, Inc.

Ashley Bryan's Puppets
Ashley Bryan · Simon and Schuster

Autumnblings
Douglas Florian · Greenwillow Books

Away with Words!
Mary Ann Hoberman

Awful Ogre's Awful Day
Jack Prelutsky · Scholastic

Barnyard Lullaby
Frank Asch · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Barnyard Song
Rhonda Gowler Greene · Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Beast Feast
Douglas Florian · Voyager Books

Best wishes
Cynthia Rylant · Crown

Birthday Zoo
Deborah Lee Rose · Albert Whitman & Company

Black cat
Christopher Myers · Book Wholesalers
Black Gold
Laura Obuobi · HarperCollins

Bring on that beat
Rachel Isadora · Putnam

Brown Angels
Myers · Harper Collins

By the light of the captured moon
Julian Scheer · Holiday House

Canoe days
Gary Paulsen · Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Cat, what is that?
Tony Johnston · David R Godine

Central Park serenade
Laura Godwin · HarperCollins

Circus
Lois Ehlert · Trumpet Club / HarperCollins
Collected Poems for Children
Charles Causley · Pan

Color the Sky
David Elliott

Comets, stars, the Moon, and Mars
Douglas Florian · Harcourt

Creature carnival
Marilyn Singer · Hyperion Books For Children

Dance by the light of the moon
Joanne Ryder · Hyperion

Danitra Brown Leaves Town
Nikki Grimes · Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

Danitra Brown, class clown
Nikki Grimes · HarperCollins/Amistad

Dinosaurs galore!
Giles Andreae · Tiger Tales

Dogku
Andrew Clements · Scholastic, Inc.

Dogs, dogs, dogs!
Lesléa Newman · Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Dr. Seuss's sleep book
Dr. Seuss · Collins

Dreamcatcher
Audrey Osofsky · Orchard Books

Each living thing
Joanne Ryder · Harcourt

Eensy-weensy spider
Mary Ann Hoberman · Scholastic

Everywhere babies
Susan Meyers · Red Wagon Books

Fairy Poems
Gaby Morgan · Macmillan Children's Books

Feathers
Eileen Spinelli · Macmillan

Fireflies at midnight
Marilyn Singer · Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Five Little Pumpkins
Iris Van Rynbach · Boyds Mills Press

Five live bongos
George Ella Lyon · Scholastic

Flip Flop Bop
Matt Novak · Macmillan

Gathering the sun
· Lothrop Lee & Shepard

Giant Children
Brod Bagert · Puffin

Halloween Hoots and Howls
Joan Horton · Macmillan

Have you been to the beach lately?
Ralph J. Fletcher · Orchard Books
Hello Ocean
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Yanitzia Canetti · Paw Prints

Here comes the year
Eileen Spinelli · Henry Holt and Company

Here we go round the mulberry bush
Will Hillenbrand · Harcourt

Here's what you do when you can't find your shoe
Andrea Perry · Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Holiday Stew
Jenny Whitehead · Macmillan
Hooray for Kids
Suzanne Lang · Random House Books for Young Readers

Hop on Pop
Dr. Seuss · Yuan Liu

How does the wind walk?
Nancy White Carlstrom · Collier Macmillan Canada

Hurry, Hurry, Mary Dear
N. M. Bodecker · Margaret K. McElderry Books

Hush! A Thai Lullaby
Minfong Ho, Holly Meade · Scholastic
I Brought My Rat for Show-and-Tell
Joan Horton · Penguin

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
Dr. Seuss · Yuan Liu

I love mud and mud loves me
Vicki Stephens · Scholastic
I Love My Mum
Gaby Morgan · Pan Macmillan

I Saw Esau
Iona Archibald Opie, Peter Opie · Candlewick Press (MA)

I'll Meet You in Your Dreams
Jessica Young · Little Brown
I'm Growing Great
Mechal Renee Roe · Doubleday Books for Young Readers
I'm in Charge of Celebrations
Byrd Baylor · Perfection Learning

If frogs made weather
Marion Dane Bauer · Holiday House
If You're Not Here, Please Raise Your Hand
Kalli Dakos · Turtleback Books

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall

In November
Cynthia Rylant · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

In the Hollow of Your Hand
Alice McGill · Houghton Mifflin

In the Land of Words
Eloise Greenfield · Harper Collins

In the Land of Words
Eloise Greenfield · Amistad Press

In the Tall, Tall Grass
Denise Fleming · Bodley Head

In the wild
Elliott, David · Candlewick Press

It's about time, Jesse Bear, and other rhymes
Nancy White Carlstrom · Demco Media

It's raining pigs & noodles
Jack Prelutsky · Tandem Library

Jazz baby
Lisa Wheeler · Harcourt

Jumping day
Barbara Juster Esbensen · Boyds Mills Press

K is for kissing a cool kangaroo
Giles Andreae · Scholastic

Karate hour
Carol Nevius · Amazon Children's Publishing
Let it Shine
Ashley Bryan · Simon and Schuster

Like a Windy Day
Frank Asch, Devin Asch · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Little Dog and Duncan
Kristine O'Connell George · Clarion Books

Lizards, frogs, and polliwogs
Douglas Florian · Harcourt

Looking like me
Christopher Myers · Egmont USA

Love
Matt de la Peña · Penguin

Marsh music
Marianne Collins Berkes · Millbrook Press

Marshmallow Kisses
Linda Crotta Brennan · Houghton Mifflin
Martin Rising
Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney · Scholastic Inc.

Millions of snowflakes
Mary McKenna Siddals · Scholastic

Monster Goose
Judy Sierra · Harcourt

Monster Museum
Marilyn Singer, Gris Grimly · Hyperion Press

Mouse tail moon
Joanne Ryder · Henry Holt

Music is
Lloyd Moss · Putnam's

My little sister ate one hare
Bill Grossman · Crown Publishers

My Mother Goose
David McPhail · Macmillan

My Very First Mother Goose
Iona Archibald Opie, Rosemary Wells · Candlewick Press

Naamah and the Ark at Night
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · National Geographic Books

Names for snow
Judi K. Beach · Hyperion Books For Children

Nobody's Nosier Than a Cat
Susan Campbell Bartoletti · Hyperion
Ocean Soup: A Book of Tide Pool Poems
Stephen R. Swinburne · Charlesbridge

Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa
Uzo Unobagha · Chronicle Books

Oh say can you say?
Dr. Seuss · Tandem Library

Oh, No! Where Are My Pants? and Other Disasters
Lee B. Hopkins · HarperCollins

On the wing
Douglas Florian · Voyager Books

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Dr. Seuss · Yuan Liu

One hundred hungry ants
Elinor J. Pinczes · Tandem Library

Oops!
Alan Katz · Margaret K. McElderry Books

Open House for Butterflies
Ruth Krauss · Harper Collins

Over in the meadow
John M. Langstaff, Feodor Rojankovsky · William Heinemann Ltd
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin, Jr. · Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Please bury me in the library
J. Patrick Lewis · Gulliver Books/Harcourt

Poems for Children
Carl Sandburg · Knopf Books for Young Readers
Poems from the Second World War
Gaby Morgan · MacMillan Children's Books
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?
Bill Martin · Macmillan

Pretend You're a Cat
Jean Marzollo · Tandem Library

Pumpkin eye
Denise Fleming · scholastic

Quilt alphabet
Lesa Cline-Ransome · Holiday House

Rain makes applesauce
Julian Scheer, Marvin Bileck, Jerry Pinkney · Holiday House, Incorporated

Read And Rise
Sandra Pinkney · CARTWHEEL BOOKS
Read Me: A Poem for Every Day of the Year
Gaby Morgan · Macmillan Children's Books

River friendly, river wild
Jane Kurtz · Aladdin

Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes
Roald Dahl

Roar Like a Dandelion
Ruth Krauss · HarperCollins

Scary, Scary Halloween
Eve Bunting, Jan Brett · Econo-Clad Books

Scranimals
Jack Prelutsky · HarperTrophy

Sea, sand, me!
Patricia Hubbell · HarperCollins Publishers

Seven Little Hippos
Mike Thaler · Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books

Shoe magic
Nikki Grimes · Orchard Books

Snowflakes Fall
Patricia Maclachlan · National Geographic Books

So, what's it like to be a cat?
Karla Kuskin · Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Soap soup and other verses
Karla Kuskin · HarperCollins

Song for the whooping crane
Eileen Spinelli · Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

Song of the circus
Lois Duncan · Philomel Books

Song of the Water Boatman
Joyce Sidman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Spring song
Barbara Seuling · Harcourt Brace
Stop-go, Fast-slow
Valjean McLenighan

Sunsets of the West
Tony Johnston · Putnam's

Surprises
Lee Bennett Hopkins · Harper & Row

Tadpole Rex
Kurt Cyrus · Harcourt
The Adventures of Simple Simon
Chris Conover · Sunburst

The Blacker the Berry
Joyce Carol Thomas · Amistad

The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
Jack Prelutsky · Harper Collins

The Magic Box
Kit Wright
The Music In Me
Sophy Henn · Simon and Schuster
The Night Before Christmas
· Charlesbridge

The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. Moore · Albert Whitman
The Night Before Christmas
Clement C. Moore · Charlesbridge Publishing

The Night Before Christmas
Clement Clarke Moore
The Night Before Christmas (Gift Edition)
Clement C. Moore · Holiday House
The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
Sally Wolf · Charlesbridge
The Shortest Day
Susan Cooper · Candlewick Press

There Is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me
Alice Walker · HarperCollins Publishers
There Was an Old Lady
Jeremy Holmes · Chronicle Books

Things to Do
Elaine Magliaro · Chronicle Books
Thinker
Eloise Greenfield · Sourcebooks, Inc.

This Is the Star
Joyce Dunbar · Doubleday

This land is your land
Woody Guthrie · Little, Brown Young Readers
Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day
Jamie Lee Curtis · Harper Collins

Touch the poem
Arnold Adoff · Blue Sky Press

Twilight comes twice
Ralph J. Fletcher · Clarion Books

Under the Christmas Tree
Nikki Grimes · HarperCollins Publishers

Under the Sunday Tree
Eloise Greenfield · Harper Collins

Up Verses Down
Calef Brown · Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Visiting Langston
Willie Perdomo · Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

Voices of Ancient Egypt
Kay Winters · National Geographic Children's Books

We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy
Maurice Sendak · Harper Collins

We Are Water Protectors
Carole Lindstrom · Roaring Brook Press

Weave little stars into my sleep : Native American lullabies
Neil Philip, Edward S. Curtis · Clarion Books

When Gorilla goes walking
Nikki Grimes · Orchard Books
Where the Wee Ones Go
Karen Jameson · Chronicle Books

Who Built the Stable?
Ashley Bryan · Simon and Schuster

Who Fed the Chickens
Ella Jenkins · Celebration Press (NJ)

Who Loves Me?
Patricia MacLachlan, Emily MacLachlan Charest · HarperColl

Wild about books
Judy Sierra · Knopf
Woke
Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo, Olivia Gatwood · Roaring Brook Press

Woke Baby
Mahogany L. Browne · Roaring Brook Press

Workshop
Andrew Clements · Clarion Books

You have to write
Janet S. Wong · M.K. McElderry Books