Poetry
Through free verse, an eleven-year-old foster child navigates grief, separation from his sister, and finding his voice in poetry.
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Through free verse, an eleven-year-old foster child navigates grief, separation from his sister, and finding his voice in poetry.
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Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly. And he misses his little sister, Lili, who was put into a different foster home because "not a lot of people want boys-not foster boys that ain't babies." But Lonnie hasn't given up. His foster mother, Miss Edna, is growing on him. She's already raised two sons and she seems to know what makes them t...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content present
Violence & gore
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Parents' death in a fire referenced as backstory; not graphic
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Substance use
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Recurring themes of racism, racial identity, and foster-care inequity
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Parental death; sibling separation in foster care; grief and systemic hardship
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