Contains poems for individual and multiple voices that follow the experiences of a group of four friends as they spend a happy, creative summer playing together.
A brief biography of the African-American woman sometimes known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement for her part in precipitating the Montgomery bus boycott.
Poems by Nathaniel, a spirited nine-year-old poet who raps and rhymes about what it's like to be nine, his education, and his family life. Includes instructions for children on how to create a twelve-bar blues poem.
