Portland Public Library

Locomotion, Jacqueline Woodson

eng

no index present

non fiction

Locomotion

49936090

Jacqueline Woodson

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 4.7, 2.0.5.0, Reading Counts RC, 3-5, 4.9, 32810.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school

Poem book -- Roof -- Line break poem -- Memory -- Mama -- Lili -- First -- Commercial break -- Haiku -- Group home before Miss Edna's house -- Halloween poem -- Parents poem -- Sonnet poem -- How I got my name -- Describe somebody -- Epistle poem -- Roof poem II -- Me, Eric, Lamont & Angel -- Failing -- New boy -- December 9th -- List poem -- Late Saturday afternoon in Halsey Street Park -- Pigeon -- Sometimes poem -- War poem -- Georgia -- New boy poem II -- Tuesday -- Visiting -- Just nothing poem -- God poem -- All of a sudden, the poem -- Hey dog -- Occasional poem -- Haiku poem -- LaTenya -- Poetry poem -- Eric poem -- Lamont -- Hip hop rules the world -- Photographs -- New boy poem III -- Happiness poem -- Birth -- Lili's new mama's house -- Church -- New boy poem IV -- Teacher of the year -- Easter Sunday -- Rodney -- Epitaph poem -- Firefly -- The fire -- Almost summer sky -- Clyde poem I: down South -- First day of school -- Dear God -- LaTenya II -- June

pre adolescent