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Poetry

Immersed in Verse

Allan Wolf

Contains advice, ideas, writing activities, and encouragement from a working poet for aspiring poets.

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Keesha's House

Helen Frost

Seven teens facing such problems as pregnancy, closeted homosexuality, and abuse each describe in poetic forms what caused them to leave home and where they found home again.

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Talking in the Dark

Billy Merrell

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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-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.

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Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

Ronald Koertge

When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love,

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Love That Dog

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.

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The Terrible Stories

Lucille Clifton

Poems by Lucille Clifton. Contents: 1. A dream of foxes; 2. From the cadaver; 3. A term in Memphis; 4. In the meantime; 5. From the book of David.

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Love That Dog

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.

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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-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.

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Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

In a series of poems, fifteen-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.

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