What Have You Lost? - Softcover

Nye, Naomi Shihab

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380733072 ISBN 13: 9780380733071

Publisher: Greenwillow Books, 2001

Synopsis

What have you lost? A friend? A brother? A wallet? A memory? A meaning? A year?

Each Night

Images,
dream news,
fragments,
flash
then fade.
These darkened walls.

Here, I say.
Climb into
this story.
Be remembered!

Jay Bremyer

00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), 00 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award Nominations, Winner 2000 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and 01 Riverbank Review Magazine's Children's Books of Distinction Award Nominations

About this title

Review:

"Lost memories, lost relationships, regret -- each poem pierces and then releases readers, who pocket a new treasure at the end of each page."--"School Library Journal"Young readers in the throes of realizing the infinite possibilities of loss are bound to connect with these 140 dynamic poems."--"The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

About the Author:

Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and anthologist and the acclaimed author of Habibi: A Novel and Sitti's Secrets, a picture book, which was based on her own experiences visiting her beloved Sitti in Palestine. Her book 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has taught writing and worked in schools all over the world, including in Muscat, Oman. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0380733072
• ISBN 13: 9780380733071
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230