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The Mistakes That Made Us : Confessions From Twenty Poets

Follett Number: 2734GF0
Audience: Upper Elementary
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, 2024
Format: 39 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-72849-210-0
ISBN-10: 1-72849-210-6
LCCN: 2023-049170
Dewey: 811
Classifications: Nonfiction

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Includes one poem in Spanish with English translation.;Oopsie Daisy! Most valuable player / by Allan Wolf -- Matter I alls / by Linda Sue Park -- Science lesson / by David Elliott -- Eating concrete / by Matt Forrest Esenwine -- Wanderer / by Lacresha Berry -- Stuff happens. Dare / by George Ella Lyon -- You wanted to pitch / by Jaime Adoff -- Scissors / by Margarita Engle -- My secret / by Vikram Madan -- Silent / by Kim Rogers -- Blessing in disguise. My favorite mistake / by Douglas Florian -- When I was Miss Spider / by Tabatha Yeatts -- Escapando = Escaping / by Jorge Argueta -- Skipping / by Jane Yolen -- Tough Loss / by Charles Waters -- What have I done? Pencil / by Naomi Shihab Nye -- Birthday breaths / by JaNay Brown-Wood -- Shattered / by Irene Latham -- Between us / by April Halprin Wayland -- Glue that binds us / by Darren Sardelli. "7-11"--Dust jacket.

From the publisher:
Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt. This engrossing poetry anthology explores making mistakes and learning from them. Twenty brave poets?Linda Sue Park, Margarita Engle, Allan Wolf, David Elliott, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Lacresha Berry, George Ella Lyon, Jaime Adoff, Vikram Madan, Kim Rogers, Douglas Florian, Tabatha Yeatts, Jorge Argueta, Jane Yolen, Charles Waters, JaNay Brown-Wood, Irene Latham, April Halprin Wayland, Darren Sardelli, and Naomi Shihab Nye?share real-life mistakes they made as young people . . . and what happened next. Edited by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, with brilliantly evocative illustrations by Merce Lopez, this is a book for all who are growing and discovering and still figuring out who we are. (Which is to say . . . all of us!)

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