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Hopscotch Love
A Family Treasury of Love Poems
By Grimes, Nikki & Rosales, Melodye
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-68815-667-1
- Publisher
- New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 1999
Gr 4-8 A fresh celebration of love based on the African-American experience. The 22 selections run the gamut of all types of affection, from teenaged crushes to the feelings between siblings and the bonds between children and their parents. Bittersweet poems describe relationships between elderly relatives, as "Uncle Willis" looks after his sickly wife and a gray-haired couple enjoy a memory-filled moment: "The graying sweethearts/Y...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
