Great Reading: Bookmark It!
Volume 32, Number 1, October 2004
Kathleen Odean
YA Fiction Bookmark
Pleasure of Poetry
Blushing: Expressions of love in poems and letters. Collected by Paul Janeczko. Orchard, 2004. $15.95. 0-439-53056-3. Grades 7-12. This small, lovely collection brings together poems about love from different times and poets. It moves from the beginnings of romance through its joys and pains to remembering past loves.
Is this forever, or what? Poems & paintings from Texas. Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye. Greenwillow, 2004. $19.99. 0-06-051178-8. Grades 7-12. This handsome volume speaks to readers beyond the Texas borders, with its wide-ranging selection of poems with universal themes. Striking paintings, beautifully reproduced, add to its appeal.
Revenge and forgiveness : An anthology of poems. Patrice Vecchione, ed. Henry Holt, 2004. $16.95. 0-8050-7376-0. Grades 9-12. Exploring revenge and forgiveness among families, friends and lovers, Vecchione selects a rich array of poems, some fairly sophisticated, others simpler. Extensive biographical notes include references to other works by these poets.
Shakespeare bats cleanup. Ron Koertge. Candlewick, 2003. $15.99. 0-7636-2116-1. Grades 6-10. Fourteen-year-old Kevin, bored at home with mononucleosis , tries his hand at different poetry formats, writing about baseball, a new romantic friendship, his mother’s death and more. The result is a character study, a wonderful introduction to poetry and a possible tool for teaching poetry writing.
The world according to dog: Poems and teen voices . Joyce Sidman, photographs by Doug Mindell. Houghton Mifflin, 2003. $15.00. 0-618-17497-4. Grades 6-12. Another attractive book, this combines poetry by Sidman in a variety of formats with short prose pieces from different teenagers. All address aspects, mostly pleasurable, of having a dog.
Kathleen Odean: Librarian, speaker and author of Great books for girls (revised 2002) and other guides. Rhode Island. email: kathleenodean@hotmail.com web site: www.kathleenodean.com
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