Synopsis
Short, accessible poems in the single voice of the new middle schooler capture the middle school experience, from making new friends and moving from class to class, to changing for PE, gossip, and school dances.
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Capturing the moments children experience in middle school in lively verse, an award-winning poet describes an array of challenges kids face--making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework--told from the point of view of a new middle schooler. Lively illustrations complement this perceptive, humorous, poignant record of an important transitional year. Illustrations.
Review
* "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
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Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems
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Clarion Books (edition 0), 2002
ISBN 10: 0618152504
ISBN 13: 9780618152506
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Swimming Upstream : Middle School Poems
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2002
ISBN 10: 0618152504
ISBN 13: 9780618152506
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