poetry

Rhyming verse in poetic stanzas tells the story of a wolf who overcomes the fears of the forest animals he lives with by explaining his love of writing poetry and eating pears.

"In this fanciful tale depicting the ups and downs of a writer's journey, a child is horrified to discover that all the words from a most carefully written poem have escaped through a ripped pocket. The young writer tries to capture all the escaped words, but they whirl and swirl in the wind--mingling in mid-air to make fun puns and rhymes and comically mixing up with the signs and activities of a busy city street. Finally managing to gather all the words, the child tries to put the pieces of the poem back together, only for the wind to blow the words away once again. Tired and spent, and caught in a rainstorm, the despairing writer thinks all is lost . . . only to discover that the whole arduous process has ended up with the poem growing into something even better than first imagined. The clouds part, and the sun shines down on a new creation: a Poet-Tree"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an introduction to poetry, including an overview of the parts of a poem, as well as a discussion of different kinds of poetry. Includes a glossary, a list of additional resources, and critical thinking questions using the Common Core.

Contains a collection of poems by the author exploring the intersection between everyday lives and important historical moments, moments of tragedy and moments of hope, and how feelings inject themselves into experiences.

"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door--a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom, Miss Liliana banishes them to the principal's office. Will the two of them find a way to turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around?"--Publisher.

"Hunter Zivotovsky wants to be a writer. When his dream girl Wren Cooper starts a poetry club at Henley High, he decides to push his creative chops to the max. But Hunter's longtime best friend Carmelita Lorca doesn't think that Wren is for real. Soon, Hunter must decide what's more important to him: his desire to be accepted into Wren's writerly world, or his desire to stay true to himself."--Provided by publisher.

Jeremy Bloom produces forty poems on sports in order to raise his grade from a D- to an A+.

An illustrated, humorous version of the traditional nursery rhyme.

"[Presents a guide for teachers on writing] that teachers [the reader] how to move students step-by-step from ideas, to drafts, to finished works"--Amazon.