Janeczko, Paul B

A series of poems in which a young boy describes his life with his flower children parents, his friends, and neighbors.

Presents twenty poems and activities designed to help middle school students develop a love for poetry and learn how to understand what they are reading.

Contains a collection of illustrated senryu--short poems related to haiku--covering a wide range of subjects, including baby-sitters, jumping rope, snoring parents, spoiled pets, and more.

A collection of poems celebrating the good and bad things about friendship, giving, loneliness, and love, by such authors as Myra Cohn Livingston, John Ciardi, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

Collects over three dozen illustrated rhyming poems, with tongue twisters and bilingual pieces, drawn from contemporary and classic literary sources and anonymous authors.

Contains poems written to things that are not usually spoken to, including a mote of dust, sneakers, mosquitoes, snowflakes, and others.

In this novel written as a collection of eyewitness poems, the excitement and anticipation of attending the circus on July 6, 1944 in Hartford, Connecticut, turns to horror when a fire engulfs the circus tent, killing nearly 180 people, mostly women and children.

A collection of bittersweet, thought-provoking poems by a variety of modern authors.

Over 100 poems reflect the rich and varied experiences of life, from music lessons and a circus parade to a first kiss and other affairs of the heart.

In a series of poems, the speaker and his best friend meander through the summer after eighth grade, encountering for the first time in the local people of their economically depressed neighborhood enormous courage and vitality.