Sara Holbrook
Autor de Wham! Its a Poetry Jam: Discovering Performance Poetry
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Sara Holbrook writes for "the silly, the wondering, the sometimes helpless and hopeless and misunderstood." She has performed her poetry around the world and in schools in the United States. She is the author of a number of books for adults and young readers. Ms. Holbrook lives in Mentor, Ohio Jane mostrar más Yolen is the celebrated author of more than two hundred books for adults and young readers and is the recipient of the Kerlan Award for her body of work. She lives in St. Andrews, Scotland, and Hatfield, Massachusetts mostrar menos
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The Enemy: Detroit, 1954 por Sara E. Holbrook
Holbrook’s fictional tale captures the angst and fear of the Cold War, McCarthyism, and coming of age. The author’s craft transports the reader to the Detroit suburbs in 1954. Includes Author’s Notes, Bibliography.
I've been reading a lot of books about the Cold War lately and this is one to read if you have an interest. It describes the anti-German sentiment that permeated American culture in the 50s and 60s. There was much less tolerance for cultural differences back then and Detroit was one of the melting pot cities. This book is based loosely on the author's own experiences growing up in Detroit.
Marjorie is very aware of the anti-Nazi/anti-Communist atmosphere around her. Communists are called Commies and immigrants are called DPs for displaced persons. WW2 is still fresh in people's minds and they have no tolerance for Germans. When a new German girl named Inga joins her class and she is instructed to share her desk since there are no others, Marjorie is faced with a moral dilemma. She wants to be nice to Inga and help her learn to read English, but she knows it will jeopardize her friendship with the popular, but intolerant, Bernadette.
Her father, a retired military man, who works for a company with ties to the military, is socially aware of the importance to not appear to be a Communist sympathizer. So it's interesting that at the end of the book he invites Inga's father over to their house to talk about the war. In the end, Marjorie stands up to Bernadette. Her father's message is that war is bad, not people, so you must forgive and forget.… (más)
Marjorie is very aware of the anti-Nazi/anti-Communist atmosphere around her. Communists are called Commies and immigrants are called DPs for displaced persons. WW2 is still fresh in people's minds and they have no tolerance for Germans. When a new German girl named Inga joins her class and she is instructed to share her desk since there are no others, Marjorie is faced with a moral dilemma. She wants to be nice to Inga and help her learn to read English, but she knows it will jeopardize her friendship with the popular, but intolerant, Bernadette.
Her father, a retired military man, who works for a company with ties to the military, is socially aware of the importance to not appear to be a Communist sympathizer. So it's interesting that at the end of the book he invites Inga's father over to their house to talk about the war. In the end, Marjorie stands up to Bernadette. Her father's message is that war is bad, not people, so you must forgive and forget.… (más)
This book contains lots of poems created by Sara Holbrook. Most of these poems deal with familiar school experience like the end of summer, waiting for the bus, and the bus ride on the bus. The author writes poems that rhythm but also makes up words in some of her poems as well.
This is a great book! When reading this book I learned that poetry too can be fun! It gives you actual dance moves you can do while reading the poetry and is great when talking about different alliteration sounds! Boom! Smack! Tap! I would recommend reading this book children around the ages 3-5 just because it would grasp their attention!
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