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From: Margaret Lorusso <mlorusso>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:19:25 -0400
Thank you for your suggestions for verse novels:
"Almost Forever" by Maria Testa - A spare, lyrical--and ultimately heartening--novel about one family's experience during the Vietnam era (ages 9-13).
"Becoming Joe DiMaggio" by Maria Testa - Spare, simple poems tell a boy's moving story in this short novel about baseball, family, and the American dream. (ages 10-14)
"Something About America" by Maria Testa -- Immigration in contemporary America is explored in a powerful lyric novel from award-winning poet Maria Testa (age 12 and up).
"Worlds Afire" by Paul Janeczko - celebrated anthologist Paul B. Janeczko creates a stirring fictional account of the 1944 Hartford fire (age 12 and up).
"New Found Land Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery" by Allan Wolf - Lewis and Clark's epic journey (age 10 and up).
"Spinning Through the Universe" by Helen Frost - A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214, her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other, their families, and the world around them. (ages 10 and up)
"Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse - In a series of poems, ifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.(ages 9 and up)
"Witness" by Karen Hesse - A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. (ages 9 and up)
"Locomotion" by Jacqueline Woodson - In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.(ages 9 and older)
"Love that Dog" by Sharon Creech - A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. (ages 9 and up)
"Judy Scuppernong" by Brenda Seabrooke.- Poems describe the daily experiences of four girls growing up in a small town in Georgia in the early 1950s.(Ages 9 and up)
"Frenchtown Summer" - by Robert Cormier (older) - A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938. (YA)
"Jump Ball" - by Mel Glenn:- a basketball season in poems (YA)
"Foreign Exchange" by Mel Glenn - A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing. (YA)
"Girl Coming in for a Landing" by April Wayland - A collection of over 100 poems recounting the ups and downs of one adolescent girl's school year.(YA)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 17:19:25 -0400
Thank you for your suggestions for verse novels:
"Almost Forever" by Maria Testa - A spare, lyrical--and ultimately heartening--novel about one family's experience during the Vietnam era (ages 9-13).
"Becoming Joe DiMaggio" by Maria Testa - Spare, simple poems tell a boy's moving story in this short novel about baseball, family, and the American dream. (ages 10-14)
"Something About America" by Maria Testa -- Immigration in contemporary America is explored in a powerful lyric novel from award-winning poet Maria Testa (age 12 and up).
"Worlds Afire" by Paul Janeczko - celebrated anthologist Paul B. Janeczko creates a stirring fictional account of the 1944 Hartford fire (age 12 and up).
"New Found Land Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery" by Allan Wolf - Lewis and Clark's epic journey (age 10 and up).
"Spinning Through the Universe" by Helen Frost - A collection of poems written in the voices of Mrs. Williams of room 214, her students, and a custodian about their interactions with each other, their families, and the world around them. (ages 10 and up)
"Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse - In a series of poems, ifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.(ages 9 and up)
"Witness" by Karen Hesse - A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. (ages 9 and up)
"Locomotion" by Jacqueline Woodson - In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.(ages 9 and older)
"Love that Dog" by Sharon Creech - A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem. (ages 9 and up)
"Judy Scuppernong" by Brenda Seabrooke.- Poems describe the daily experiences of four girls growing up in a small town in Georgia in the early 1950s.(Ages 9 and up)
"Frenchtown Summer" - by Robert Cormier (older) - A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938. (YA)
"Jump Ball" - by Mel Glenn:- a basketball season in poems (YA)
"Foreign Exchange" by Mel Glenn - A series of poems reflect the thoughts of various people--town residents young and old, teachers, and some students visiting from the city caught up in the events surrounding the murder of a beautiful high school student who had recently moved to the small lake-side community of Hudson Landing. (YA)
"Girl Coming in for a Landing" by April Wayland - A collection of over 100 poems recounting the ups and downs of one adolescent girl's school year.(YA)
-- Margaret LoRusso Harrison Public Library New York --Received on Tue 04 Apr 2006 04:19:25 PM CDT
