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Locomotion

Woodson, Jacqueline (author.).

Summary: 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: print
    100 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [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.
Subject: African American boys Juvenile poetry
Brothers and sisters Juvenile poetry
Foster home care Juvenile poetry
Orphans Juvenile poetry
Schools Juvenile poetry
Children's poetry, American
Brothers and sisters Poetry
African Americans Poetry
Foster home care Poetry
Orphans Poetry
Schools Poetry
American poetry
African American boys
Brothers and sisters
Children's poetry, American
Foster home care
Orphans
Schools
American poetry
Schools Poetry
Orphans Poetry
Boys Poetry
Foster home care Poetry
African Americans Poetry
Siblings Poetry
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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  • 8 out of 8 copies are currently available at Athens Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Athens-Clarke County Library.

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