
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices
by Paul Fleischman
Verse novel · ages 8–12 · 620L (~3rd grade) · 44 pages · 1988
Why we'd hand it over
A Newbery Medal masterpiece that teaches kids how to listen to nature through the architecture of two-voice poetry — kids discover they can read these aloud *right now* with a friend and it immediately sounds like music.