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Includes Poetry Alive! Hit:
The Dog Ate My Homework
You ever used this excuse? This is a book for kids of all ages. The poems are about school and the stuff that runs through your mind when you are supposed to be watching the board or doing your homework.
Sample first lines:
I can’t have cake for breakfast?
My pen took a walk...
A fight is like an infection, it just gets passed along
The popular crowd crams up like toe jam in the hall...
If my desk weren’t such a mess, I could find my organizer
Two more days of school...if it were three, I’d crack
Includes Poetry Alive! Hit:
Are You the One?
The poems in this book are for kids in what teachers call the “middle ages,” what Sara calls her “dark ages.” Basically, it is for kids oiling the wheels on their rollerblades at the top of the slope marked adolescence. The poems focus on relationships with friends, school and parents. It has poems about all kinds of emotions from happiness to anger and depression. It’s up and down and all over the place – kind of like the middle ages.
Sample lines:
Me? I rolled in like a storm, darkening the room
My self-conscious should keep quiet!
I hate my body, I’m not going out
Alone doesn’t have to be sad
Happy settles, an orange campfire in my chest
Insecure is a lace, untied
You can watch a storm and learn when you are feeling safe inside.
Includes Poetry Alive! Hits:
Angry
Grownups
May I Be Excused
Why Do They Call That Love?
This book is about life’s tragedies – from a teacher with good ears to the worst haircut in the world. It is a comic survival guide to childhood including such traumatic happenings as annoying brothers, being foot-stomping mad and saying gross things at the table. But every misery turns out – you guessed it – to be not the end of the world, and that even strip-mine wounds can heal. The book is illustrated by J. J. Smith Moore.
Sample Lines:
I want to move across the street...
I’m a victim of the worst haircut that ever sat on a head
My teacher has good ears
I have to stand by Susan Todd?
I gotta find a union, where’s my brother anyway?
If misery loves company, then I could use a crowd
Includes Poetry Alive! Hits:
Angry
The Dog Ate My Homework
May I Be Excused?
To Be
Take a wild ride with poet Sara Holbrook as she guides young writers in performing poetry with style and pizzazz. With enthusiasm, encouragement, and a touch of irreverence, Ms. Holbrook, a performance poet herself, explains how to use voice, rhythm, attitude, movement, and other techniques to perform poetry solo or in a group. More than thirty poems are included for young readers to practice, as well as advice and instruction for putting on a poetry jam at school or in the community.
Includes Poetry Alive! Hit:
To Be
This book is for my friends in the first through third grades. It is also for kids who promised themselves they never would forget what it was like be short in height, but not short on things to say. And how hard it was to get tall people to listen. If you think you are too old for this book, just remember for a moment how scary it was to get stuck in the port-a-potty at a T Ball game and it will all come back to you.
Sample first lines:
There’s a ghost in our house, we call him Mr. Who
I can stomp like marching boots
Don’t copy me, (don’t copy me)
Not that mall, no way, not me
Wiggle-klutz and Giggle-guts like to spin around
Soccer is the greatest fun.
