Record details

• ISBN: 0380733072
• ISBN: 9780380733071
• ISBN: 1439519102
• ISBN: 9781439519103
• Physical Description: xv, 206 pages ; 23 cm
• Edition: 1st Harper Tempest ed.
• Publisher: [New York] : Harper Tempest, 2001, ©1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Greenwillow book."

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

What the stones know / Robert Dana -- Years of solitude / Dionisio D. Martínez -- Orange juice / Lisa Ruth Shulman -- The wren / Barbara McCauley -- My father's coat / Susie Mee -- David / William I. Elliott -- My father in the stacks / David Hassler -- Battleground state park / Martha Christina -- Nine / Amy Adams -- Emergency situation / Hal Sirowitz -- The ants are using sticks for walls / Sandra Gail Teichmann -- The changeling / Siv Cedering -- The father, who could not swim / Bill Meissner -- Son, skating / Judith Kithcen -- The new blade / Anzai Hitoshi -- Teenagers / Pat Mora -- Devotion / Chris Pealer -- Custody / Jan Bailey -- Mother's day / Daisy Zamora -- Waking instructions / Emma Mellon -- Simple song of being oneself / Vittorio Bodini -- I myself / Ángel González -- and sometimes i hear this song in my head / Harriet Jacobs -- Shedding skin / Harryette Mullen -- Song of the prodigal son / Herberto Padilla -- Aqueducts / Brittaney Corrigan -- Invisibility / Renato Rosaldo -- Breath / David Williams -- Almost evenly divided / Emma Suárez-Báez -- At home / Linda Gregg -- Child proof / Lisa Brandenburg -- Taking my son to his first day of kindergarten / William Trowbridge -- Bittersweet / Lavonne J. Adams -- First grade / Roger Jones -- The new world / Sandra Larson -- The forest of my hair / James Tolan -- Returning to the West : mountain legend / Denise Overfield -- Drifter, owl, mouse / Ken Fontenot -- Kind / Leonard Nathan -- Last-minute message for a time capsule / Philip Appleman -- That was the summer we had animals / Jack Ridl -- Lens / Kimberly J. Brown -- Sudden / Nick Flynn -- Organdy, curtains, windows, south bank of the Ohio / James Baker Hall -- On the suicide of a young boy I did not know / Jennifer Weinblatt -- What Grandma taught her / Melissa A. Stephenson -- Seeing for you / Linda Allardt -- Leaving the light on / Jack Myers -- What we want / Maggie Anderson -- What great grief has made the empress mute / June Jordan -- Silence / Peter Sears -- What gets lost/Lo que se pierde / Alastair Reid -- Naming / Nancy Mairs -- The higher reaches / Bruce Bennett -- here yet be dragons / Lucille Clifton -- Learning Persian / Reza Shirazi -- Driving / Haas H. Mrouse -- The sparrow and the crumb / Nathan Spoon -- Other lives / Vern Rutsala -- Hitchhiker / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The family car / Tom Absher -- "I never saw the road between our..." / Donna Lee -- So far / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Travelling light / Kirsti Simonsuuri -- Legend / Craig Czury -- Stranded / Jenny Browne -- Today I'll sit still / Ernesto Trejo -- This isn't fair / Chris Mahon -- "Someone told me you were in love..." / Ernesto Cardenal -- Insurance / Vickie Karp -- "What are friends for, my mother asks..." / Rosellen Brown -- Going home / Ben Judson -- That kind of marriage / Jon Sangster -- She had a thought / Phebe Davidson -- Divorce / Jack Gilbert -- my lost father / Lucille Clifton -- It was here--, / Rolf Jacobsen -- Mindleaving / Hayan Charara -- Shrink-wrapped / Carla Hartsfield -- Where on this earth / Patricia Kirkpatrick -- Garage sale / Brian Andreas -- Words my friend can't bring herself to say / Quintin Prout -- Journey / Cathy Song -- What came to me / Jane Kenyon -- Benavides, Texas, 1906 / Marissa C. Martínez -- Letter to an ancestor / Dwight Fullingim -- The house at 5 Allende Street / Héctor Carreto -- Barns collapsing / John Vernon -- Dream house / Margo Solod -- Small town / Charles Owsley -- What was once reached for / Jeffrey Shotts -- Father, herald me home / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- The love glove is happy / Nuala Archer -- A serenade / Sekine Hiroshi -- A game nobody won / Yamaanoguchi Baku -- My grandmother told us jokes / Richard Beban -- The mentalist leaves the stage / Memye Curtis Tucker -- Part / Steve Wilson -- Plum trees / Alison Seevak -- Work / Geoff Rips -- Sister / Andy Young -- The question / Tony Hoagland -- My valhalla / Robert Phillips -- The colors of another home / Cyrus Cassells -- Fame / Nicanor Parra -- Tutu on the curb / Eric Chock -- Passing necessity / Camille Domangue -- Any morning / William Stafford -- Tough ride / Mary Ann Wehler -- Unveiling the Vietnam memorial / Fran Castan -- Thinking of what the jury is deliberating / Mick Hatten -- I give you back / Joy Harjo -- Food. music. memory / Susan Marie Scavo -- The memory prayer / John Phillip Santos -- Raised voices / Jack Brannon -- Lament / Catherine Bowman -- Model of the heart at the Franklin Institute / Kasey Jueds -- Each night / Jay Bremyer -- Waking up in the morning / Zymunt Frankel -- Truth / Leroy V. Quintana -- Regrets on the way to an airport / Ali Abunimah -- Processes / Joan Colby -- Ghazal (for William Stafford) / David Keefe -- Autumn quince / Jane Hirshfield -- Cannon beach / Susan V. Meyers -- Christmas / Lan Se -- Avalanche / David B. Prather -- Year's end / Ted Kooser -- How forgetting works in late winter / Robert Hill Long -- Secret of life / Diana Der-Hovanessian -- Tune / Frances Richard -- Something I remember / Linda Elkin -- The moment for which there is no name / Morton Marcus -- Letter to Terry Dobson / Abbot Cutler -- Obituaries / Eric Zuckerman -- The black and the dazzle / Tom Rea -- Valencia street / Robert Funge -- Wilderness poem / John Brandi -- Dreaming them into the world again / Tina Letcher.

Target Audience Note:

Young Adult.

Study Program Information Note:

Reading Counts RC 9-12 7.9 6.0 19812.

Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.1 3.0 36569.

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Fiction.
Poetry.