1. Find Out Who You Are 2. Imaginary Friends 3. A Move East 4. Starting a Family 5. Starting to Write 6. Writing from Life 7. Sarah, Plain and Tall 8. What You Know First 9. At Home 10. In Her Own Words - Glossary - Index - Web Sites

Assignment: Poetry - What's a Poem Anyway? - THE POETRY WRITING PROCESS UNPLUGGED: 1. HUNT AND GATHER: Finding Subjects for Poems - 2. THE VISION: Imagining Your Poem - 3. THINK OUT OF THE BOX: Writing the First Draft - 4. THE SPIN ROOM: Where the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary - MINI-GUIDES TO POETIC FORMS: 5. THE HAIKU: A Short Poem i Japanese - 6. LIST POEMS: Everything but the Kitchen Sink - 7. THE DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE: Look Who's Talking - 8. BALLADS:...

Gabriela is offered a dance opportunity she cannot pass up during her already busy sixth grade year, but she finds herself wishing she could work on her poetry instead and wonders if her dreams have changed.

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"One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting and intimate tone that gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a vague and frozen city on a single day, into a past the man is hoping to forget, and leaving them at the doorstep of an uncertain future....

Learn about the woman who wrote the Little House books.