From: Thurber Amy <athurber43>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:27:26 -0700 (PDT)

I am currently reading Loose Threads by Lorie Ann Grover, and I am intrigued by her use of poetry to cover such a tough and close to home topic such as breast cancer. The main character, Kay lives with four generations of women and the book is written in
 her voice, all in poetry. I'm not sure about the set up of other books of this sort but, here, each poem has a title, making them each a different chapter, or maybe different paragraphs? I am yet to be convinced that the voice of the poery is accurate for a seventh grader. Has anyone else noticed that books in poetry form can be too sophisticated for the voice that is supposedly narrating?

Amy Thurber

Director

Canaan Town Library, Canaan NH



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