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Gr 4-6 Readers of "Locomotion" (Putnam, 2003) will welcome the chance to revisit Lonnie's world. Written as letters from Lonnie to his sister, Lili, who is in a different foster home, the story's backdrop is the unnamed war in which his foster brother Jenkins is fighting. When war directly affects the family, the 12-year-old begins to hope and pray for peace and to grapple with its meaning. Mature readers will see, also, the steps Lonnie...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In Locomotion (rev. 3/03) eleven-year-old Lonnie Collins Motion told his story in a collection of sixty poems. In this sequel, he continues his story not in poems but in letters he writes to his younger sister, Lili. Lonnie's writing still grows from his memories of their parents and how much he misses them and his sister, who lives with a different foster family. Here, Lonnie also misses his fifth-grade teacher, kind Ms. Marcus, who taught him ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Lonnie Collins Motion (<i>Locomotion</i>) continues his story in letters to his younger sister, who lives with a different fos...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Jacqueline Woodson’s moving epistolary novel, a companion to her award-winning Locomotion, will resonate with young readers. Lonnie, writing letters to his little sister, wants to be the “rememberer,” holding on to memories from when their family was still together. He acknowledges, though, that these memories are starting to fade. He struggles with the idea that someone could take their mother’s place, getting upset when he hears Lili call her foster mother “Mama”: “I felt like something was breaking inside of me. I felt like I could hear our own true...Log In or Sign Up to Read More