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Slickety Quick: Poems about Sharks af Skila Brown
A good book for kids who like sharks.
Reminiscent of [b:All the Broken Pieces|4296443|All the Broken Pieces|Ann E. Burg|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328838681s/4296443.jpg|4344030] and other novels in verse about children experiencing incredibly difficult circumstances (also [b:Never Fall Down|12924297|Never Fall Down|Patricia McCormick|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1330649356s/12924297.jpg|18079742], which isn't in verse but I thought of it as I was reading this). The history of Guatemala was somewhat known to me, but a first-person account of a tragedy such as this makes it visceral. I felt strongly for Carlos, his mother and his village. The poetry used not only words but shapes and spaces to convey meaning.… (mere)
Nineteen- year-old Mary Ann Graves’s adventure west is told through poetry in this first person narrative about a young survivor of the 1846 Donner Party. Traveling with her family, she dreams of a new life in California, but must survive a deadly winter in the Sierra Nevada, facing loss and making sacrifices in a story of perseverance.
middlegrade fiction in verse (war/Guatemala 1981). I would've liked this better if I could force myself to slow down, pace out each poem, but I generally don't care for poems and skim over them. These I could tell were well-written (compared to other novels written in verse) and I got a good sense of Carlos' feelings, and all that was going on around him.
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- #66,630
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- 4.2
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- 22