APPLE By Nan Fry At the center, a dark star wrapped in white. When you bite, listen

2. APPLE By Nan Fry At the center, a dark star wrapped in white. When you bite, listen for the crunch of boots on snow, snow that has ripened. Over it stretches the red, starry sky.

3. METAPHOR A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.

5. ASPARAGUS by Natalie Babbitt Like a nest Of snakes Awakened, craning Long-necked Out of the Ground: to stand With sharp Scaly heads Alert, tasting The air, Taking the sun, Looking around.

6. SIMILE A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

7. Cotton Candy Guess the Title! Swirling like a sweet tornado, it spins itself stiff. By Deborah Chandra A storm caught on a paper cone. I hold it up, the air grows thick and sticky with the smell of it. A pink wind made of sugar and smoke, cotton, earth crust, delicious dust!

8. Sunflowers Guess the Title! By Rebecca Kai Dotlich Yellow faces round as plates; giants growing at the gate. golden guards saluting sky; garden kings with chocolate eyes.

9. Clouds Guess the Title! By Deborah Chandra Herded and hurried by the wind, surrounded by the horizon, a billowing bunch of sheep leap - frightened and trembling in their damp wool coats.

10. THE LIGHTHOUSE by Katherine Sessor

11. THE LIGHTHOUSE by Katherine Sessor The light house, the guardian angel of the night She shines her light for all the lost sailors passing by Her beam bright as the sun, flashing through the night sky The lighthouse, a soldier during the storms Standing tall, unafraid of the chaos Her light piercing through the storm like sharp knives The light house the night owl of the day Sleeping away until the night Her beam off as silent as a deer not wanting to be found