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Poems in the Attic (PB) (2024)

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Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College of Education
Notable Books in the Language Arts, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Notable Poetry List, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Choices, Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)

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.


Details

Author:
Nikki Grimes
Illustrator:
Elizabeth Zunon
ISBN 10:
1643797182
Pages:
48
Publisher:
Lee & Low Books
Publication Date:
April 16, 2024
Binding:
Paperback
Age Group:
Young Readers (9 - 13)
Grade Range:
1-4

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