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Koertge, Ron

Shakespeare Bats Cleanup

116 pp. | Candlewick | March, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-2116-1 $$15.99
(2) YA Laid-up with mono, Kevin reluctantly sets aside his baseball glove and starts investigating poetry. In a narrative composed of first-person poems, the fourteen-year-old muses on sports, his mother's death, and his chaotic history with girls. The poems convey an evolving sense of self as Kevin gets romantic with a poetry-loving girl, considers sharing one of his own works publicly, and realizes that poetry is "almost as cool as baseball."
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2003

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