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Testa, Maria

Becoming Joe DiMaggio

53 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-1537-4 $$13.99
(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Scott Hunt. Growing up in an Italian-American family, Joseph Paul describes his love for his grandfather, his anger at his law-breaking and abusive father, and his devotion to baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Spread over a series of years, Joseph Paul's meditations and observations are related in first-person free verse. Although they form a fairly skimpy book, the poems may attract sports fans not otherwise interested in poetry.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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