Pub Date: March 27, 2018
Dewey: 811.540
LCCN: 2018297009
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 10 to 12
Physical Info: 0.20" H x 8.80" L x 5.00" W ( 0.25 lbs) 80 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Poetry | Humorous | School and Education | Social Topics | New Experience | Friendship | Animals | Frogs and Toads | Family | New Baby | Violence | Girls and Women | Readers | Chapter Books
Description: The ups and downs of the middle school experience are explored in these poems by award-winning poet Kristine O'Connell George.
Brief description:
Debbie Tilley has illustrated many books for children, including Spaghetti And Meatballs For All by Marilyn Burns and Babies Don't Eat Pizza by Dianne Danzig. She lives in Escondido, California.
Review Quotes:
* "Readers facing this upstream swim [or] toweling themselves off afterwards will find much they relate to in this engaging volume." --The Bulletin, starred review "Kristine O'Connell George can do more with a small handful of words than most any poet around." --Riverbank Review "The mysteries of lockers and uncontrolled giggling are plumbed; as is the rapture of the boy you like liking you back. . . . Sweet and on key." --Booklist "Middle school, with all its trials, tribulations, and triumphs, is portrayed humorously and poignantly. . . . Students will relate to this voice navigating 'upstream, ' while they try to find their own place in the middle-school wilderness." --SLJ