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Shakespeare Bats Cleanup | Ron Koertge

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"This funny and poignant novel celebrates the power of writing to help young people make sense of their lives and unlock and confront their problems." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review) When MVP Kevin Boland gets the news that he has mono and won't be seeing a baseball field for a while, he suddenly finds himself scrawling a poem down the middle of a page in his journal. To get some help, he cops a poetry book from his dad's den - and before Kevin knows it, he's writing in verse about stuff like, Will his jock friends give up on him? What's the deal with girlfriends? Surprisingly enough, after his health improves, he keeps on writing, about the smart-talking Latina girl who thinks poets are cool, and even about his mother, whose death is a still-tender loss. Written in free verse with examples of several poetic forms slipped into the mix, including a sonnet, haiku, pastoral, and even a pantoum, this funny, poignant story by a master of dialogue is an English teacher's dream - sure to hook poetry lovers, baseball fanatics, mono recoverers, and everyone in between.

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Shakespeare Bats Cleanup | Ron Koertge

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I normally don't like sports books. Or novel's in verse. And this one isn't any different. It was about a boy who got sick and couldn't play ball. And so his dad introduced him to poetry. And he wrote a few poems. And eventually, he got back into baseball and he missed it. But then he realized that he did like poetry even though he thought he didn't. Then he meets a girl and everything changes...