Poems in the Attic

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Synopsis
Award-winning poet Nikki Grimes presents a tender poetry collection where a young girl learns about her mother, the child of an Air Force serviceman.During a visit to her grandma's house, a young girl discovers a box of poems in the attic, poems written by her mother when she was growing up. Her mother's family often moved around the United States and the world because her mother's father was in the Air Force. Over the years, her mother used poetry to record everything she saw and did in the many places their family lived. Reading the poems and sharing those experiences through her mother's eyes, the young girl feels closer to her mother than ever before. To let her mother know this, she creates a gift: a book with her own poems and copies of her mother's. And when she returns her mother's poems to the box in the attic, she leaves her own poems too, for someone else to find, someday. Using free verse for the young girl's poems and tanka for her mother's, master poet Nikki Grimes creates a tender intergenerational story that speaks to every child's need to hold onto special memories of home, no matter where that place might be.
Copyright:
2014

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
48 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781620142974
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Nikki Grimes Illustrations copyright
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Children's Books, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family
Grade Levels:
First grade, Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade
Reading Age:
6–11
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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