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BrainJuice
English Fresh Squeezed!
By Shields, Carol & Ross, Tony
- ISBN
- 978-1-59354-053-1
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, N.Y. : Handprint Books, [2004].
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2005
Gr 4-7 Following her "American History, Fresh Squeezed!" (2002) and "Science, Fresh Squeezed!" (2003, both Handprint), Shields presents humorous poems both celebrating and bemoaning parts of speech, grammatical rules, and other annoyances of English class. Her rhyming verse is generally snappy and pointed, as in "Verbless" ("So if conjugation should give you a pain, /You'll notice you even need verbs to complain") or "Sentence Romance" ("...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
