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Words with wings
A young girl named Gabby lets her thoughts fly and puts them down on paper in the form of verse.
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Bronx masquerade
While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.
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Good Enough Isn’t
Grimes recounts the time when she attended a writing retreat called Flight of the Mind. While she admits that she rarely attends writing workshops these days, but at the time, she has keen interest in the inner workings of memoir as a genre and she was there for a workshop with author Judith Barrington. The literary gathering was particularly memorable for her as workshop leaders included such luminaries like master storyteller Ursula Le Guin and poet Toi Derricotte.
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Between the lines
A group of high school students grow in understanding of each other's challenges and forge unexpected connections as they prepare for a boys vs. girls poetry slam. Includes author's note about foster home care.
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Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Yet the past is still searingly and emotively evoked, whether she's talking about the underlying rage that led her to avoid bullies for fear of what she'd be provoked to do, or the value of a lifesaving friendship (\"I believed in Jackie,/ and she believed in me./ Funny how far/ that can take you\"). Characterization is potent as well, whether it be herself in a teenaged moment (\"nearly fifteen-going-on-/ you-couldn't-tell-me-nothin'\"), the mother who even sober has sympathy for strangers but indifference for her daughter, or the demanding Holocaust-survivor teacher who pushes Nikki to fulfill her true potential. Grimes potently conveys the way reading and writing can become ways not just to express oneself but to construct oneself, to articulate one's identity, to map one's mental and emotional territory.
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Garvey's choice
Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also obese, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes.
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What Makes a Book \Appropriate\ for School?
When the author was a teen, she'd given anything for a book like Ordinary Hazards. Of course, it hadn’t yet been written. What she did discover back then was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. In her novel, she found Francie, a character The author resonated with deeply. We weren’t of the same race, nor were our lives a perfect replica, by any stretch. Still, Smith’s character and the author both faced tough challenges in our young lives, and like me, Francie knew the color of hell by heart. Because of her story, the author knew that she wasn’t alone in the world, and knowing that gave her strength for her own journey. This is the power of story. This is why she became a purveyor of story, myself.
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Ordinary hazards : a memoir
\"Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, [poet] Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family, and preyed upon by those she trusted. At the age of six, she poured her pain onto a piece of paper late one night--and discovered the magic and impact of writing ... In this ... memoir [in verse] that will resonate with young readers and adults alike, Nikki shows how the power of those words helped her conquer the hazards--ordinary and extraordinary--of her life\"--Publisher marketing.
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The Common Denominator
Nikki Grimes uses her art to reach across differences such as race and culture and show the commonality of human experience. An author and a poet, she stresses the power of poetry \"to break down racial barriers, shatter cultural stereotypes, and forge community.\"
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