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170 pp.
| Candlewick |
March, 2010 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7636-4435-2$15.99
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YA
Writer/first baseman/eighth grader Kevin (Shakespeare Bats Cleanup) takes on more challenging poetic forms as well as romantic complications. Baseball, of course, remains a fixed point, as his team heads to the playoffs. Koertge's pleasing variety of verse is a seamless fit for his story and characters. Kevin's ponderings of form and style unobtrusively help inform readers less familiar with poetic technique.
Reviewer: Lauren Adams
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2010