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Dizzy in your eyes, poems about love, Pat Mora

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Dizzy in your eyes, poems about love, Pat Mora
Language
eng
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
012-017
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Dizzy in your eyes
Oclc number
301948561
Responsibility statement
Pat Mora
Sub title
poems about love
Summary
"...an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire: the girl who loves swimming, plunging into the water that creates her own world; the guy who leaves flowers on the windshield of the girl he likes. Each of the teens in these 50 original poems, written using a variety of poetic forms, will be recognizable to the reader as the universal emotions, ideas, impressions, and beliefs float across the pages in these gracefully told verses."--Amazon.comBeloved children's book author and speaker Pat Mora has written an original collection of poems, each with a different teen narrator sharing unique thoughts, moments, sadness, or heart's desire. Also included are the author's footnotes on the various types of poetic forms used throughout to help demystify poetry and showcase its accessibility
Table Of Contents
Weird -- I can dance -- Revenge x 3 -- Doubts -- Mirrors -- To-do list -- Mariachi fantasy -- Fortune cookie -- Back then -- Valentine to Papi -- First time -- Hands -- Mission -- Grandma's joke -- Conversation/Conversacion -- Kissing -- Pressure -- On the edge -- On guard -- Silence -- Please -- Spanish -- Broken home? -- Dear____, -- Dumped -- Questions -- Old love -- Our private rhyme -- Squeeze -- Safety -- With feeling -- Far away -- Songs -- Mundo de agua -- Sisters -- My cross-eyed cat -- Three loves -- Love haiku -- Four-letter word -- Lonely day -- 3 a.m. blues -- Secrets -- Opposites -- You're beautiful -- Summer love -- Mysterious -- Ode to teachers -- Oda a las maestras -- My song
Target audience
juvenile
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