Locomotion / 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.
Item details
- ISBN: 0399231153
- ISBN: 9780399231155
- ISBN: 9780142415528
- ISBN: 0142415529
- ISBN: 0142401498
- ISBN: 9780142401491
- Physical Description: 100 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2003]
- Copyright: ©2003
Contents / Notes
Formatted Contents Note: | Poem book -- Roof -- Line break poem -- Memory -- Mama -- Lili -- First -- Commercial break -- Haiku -- Group home before Miss Edna's house -- Halloween poem -- Parents poem -- Sonnet poem -- How I got my name -- Describe somebody -- Epistle poem -- Roof poem II -- Me, Eric, Lamont & Angel -- Failing -- New boy -- December 9th -- List poem -- Late Saturday afternoon in Halsey Street Park -- Pigeon -- Sometimes poem -- War poem -- Georgia -- New boy poem II -- Tuesday -- Visiting -- Just nothing poem -- God poem -- All of a sudden, the poem -- Hey dog -- Occasional poem -- Haiku poem -- LaTenya -- Poetry poem -- Eric poem -- Lamont -- Hip hop rules the world -- Photographs -- New boy poem III -- Happiness poem -- Birth -- Lili's new mama's house -- Church -- New boy poem IV -- Teacher of the year -- Easter Sunday -- Rodney -- Epitaph poem -- Firefly -- The fire -- Almost summer sky -- Clyde poem I: down South -- First day of school -- Dear God -- LaTenya II -- June. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.7 2.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #64368. Reading Counts 3-5 4.9 5 32810. F&P V. |
Awards Note: | Coretta Scott King Honor, author, 2004 National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist, 2003. |
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Genre: | Children's stories. Curriculum resource. Children's poetry, American. Novels in verse. Fiction. Juvenile works. Poetry. Novels in verse. Dust jackets (Binding) > 2003. |
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Worth County Library System: Sylvester-Margaret Jones Library |
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