10. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

2022 Newbery Award Winner

listened on Audible (used a credit for it)

2021

336 pgs.
Mid Grade SciFi
Finished 1/30/2022
Goodreads rating: 4.30
My rating: 4ish
Setting: 2060 New Mexico and 2400 Planet in another galaxy

My comments: This book was awarded the Newbery Medal last Monday, which sent me in a tailspin to obtain an audio reading asap.  It was read beautifully.  The cover is gorgeous. And it was an absolutely interesting piece of storytelling.  I'm not a big fan of folk/mythology/storytelling, and there were lots of places in the book where very important stories were told, stories that needed to be listened to in order to understand messages from Petra's grandmother, and then from herself.  I had to force myself to pay attention to these parts.  There seemed to me lots of repetitive places, and sometimes the story seemed to drag a bit. Creepy in places, sad in places, clever and adventurous in others.  Some of the pondering seemed more adult than child-centered. Lots to think about.  Good story, but I wouldn't have chosen it for a Newbery....but I never really like/agree with the Newbery choices, so ....

Goodreads synopsis:  There lived a girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita.

But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children – among them Petra and her family – have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race.

Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet – and the discovery that she is the only person who remembers Earth. A sinister Collective has taken over the ship during its journey, bent on erasing the sins of humanity's past. They have systematically purged the memories of all aboard – or purged them altogether.

Petra alone now carries the stories of our past, and with them, any hope for our future. Can she make them live again?

9. Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren

listened on Libby, borrowed from library

2018
432 pgs.
Chick-Lit Romance
Finished 1/29/2022
Goodreads rating: 4.33
My rating: 5
Setting: Contemporary San Francisco, Berkeley, and Healdsburg, California

My comments: The setting was awesome, I knew everything they were talking about and could see it in my mind's eye.  Christina Lauren's storytelling gets better and better.  Not just the plot, but the way she weaves words together seems unusual for this sort of "chick-lit romance."  Bringing two time periods, 12 to 15 years apart, together, was done smoothly and deftly.  In the "then," two young people care intensely about each other, not pushing each other physically, but being able to talk about most everything without embarrassment.  And two 29-year olds in the "now," trying to make their way towards each other knowing that the caring is still as strong as it ever was.  This is a wonderful story, a true love story, as unbelievable as that might be!

Goodreads synopsis:  The story of the heart can never be unwritten.

Macy Sorensen is settling into an ambitious if emotionally tepid routine: work hard as a new pediatrics resident, plan her wedding to an older, financially secure man, keep her head down and heart tucked away.

But when she runs into Elliot Petropoulos—the first and only love of her life—the careful bubble she’s constructed begins to dissolve. Once upon a time, Elliot was Macy’s entire world—growing from her gangly bookish friend into the man who coaxed her heart open again after the loss of her mother...only to break it on the very night he declared his love for her.

Told in alternating timelines between Then and Now, teenage Elliot and Macy grow from friends to much more—spending weekends and lazy summers together in a house outside of San Francisco devouring books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their growing pains and triumphs. As adults, they have become strangers to one another until their chance reunion. Although their memories are obscured by the agony of what happened that night so many years ago, Elliot will come to understand the truth behind Macy’s decade-long silence, and will have to overcome the past and himself to revive her faith in the possibility of an all-consuming love.

8. Alone by Megan E. Freeman

Read on Kindle - it was in verse 

2021

404 pgs.
Middle grades/survival CRF
Finished 1/28/2022
Goodreads rating: 4.20
My rating: 5
Setting: contemporary-ish small town Colorado

My comments: A beautifully written novel in verse  Gorgeous words.  And an incredible story. I so wish there had been an additional five pages so that we could hear what had happened to her parents for the past three years.  Three years all alone in a deserted and abandoned Colorado town...at 12 years old, trusting yourself to figure out how to survive!  Wow!  I can't imagine kids not enjoying this, and I can't wait to begin reading it aloud to my fifth graders.

Goodreads synopsis:  When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned.

With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.

As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day. Can Maddie’s stubborn will to survive carry her through the most frightening experience of her life?

7. The Loot by Craig Schaefer

#1 Charlie McCabe

listened on Audible

2019
329 pgs.
Adult Mystery Series
Finished 1/26/22
Goodreads rating: 4.08
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary Boston & suburbs

My comments: A female explosives expert returns from eight years duty in Afghanistan and joins a private security company.  Of course, her trial and first experience with the company has her (successfully) dealing with a bomb. There are lots and lots of ludicrous, longshot kind of figuring-out-clues that would never happen  Oh well.  It was fast paced and interesting, and somewhat believable.  Yes, I'd read more of these, I liked the main characters.

Goodreads synopsis:  She fought for her country. Now she’s fighting for her family.

When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast.

However, her father isn’t the only one who needs saving. When Charlie’s first client—a wealthy executive with a shady past—narrowly escapes a bomb plot, Charlie’s investigation leads her into the heart of Boston’s criminal underworld. Along the way, she stumbles upon clues about a diamond heist gone wrong that’s been unsolved for decades.

With the clock ticking and chaos descending, Charlie sees a solution to both problems, but it won’t be easy, and it won’t be pretty. A “normal” life may await Charlie on the other side of this mess, but part of her knows that the battle has just begun.

Kindle LineUp

I'm trying to read from my Kindle more often, not just from my iPhone, but I'm finding it difficult to access my library of unread books.  So I'm going to try to keep it up here.  This includes Kindle Unlimited.  There are LOTS more than I realized and many look super good!

Currently saved / Kindle Unlimited: as of 1/3/2024

Strictly Business (Kohl) 12/29/23

In a Jam (Canterbary) 12/29/23

Shadows of Pike Place #2 Thomas Austin (Black) 12/11/23

The Forgotten Witch (Dodge) 10/31/23

A Welcome Reunion: A Short Story (Berry) 9/17/23  AUDIO AS WELL

Lost Luggage (Tonge) 5/25/23

The Blue Bar (Biswas) 4/29/23  AUDIO AS WELL

Parting the Veil (Kennedy) 2/14/23   AUDIO AS WELL

The Singing Trees (Walker) 12/2/22  AUDIO AS WELL

Redemption Point #2 (Fox) 6/5/2022

Origami Man (#5 Gibson Vaughn) borrowed 7/16/21 AUDIO AS WELL

A Beautiful Work in Progress (Valerio) 9/2/17

A Brilliant Death (Yocum) 4/3/19

A Good Day for Chardonay #2 Sunshine Vicram 12/29/21 (plus Audio)

A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women (Elizabeth George) 2/5/17

A Shade of Vampire 2: A Shade of Blood (Forrest) 7/25/16 Read #1 and have on Kindle

A String of Beads (#8 Jane Whitefield) Perry 1/5/17

All the Beautiful Lies (Swanson) 5/17/18

All the Bright Places (Niven) 9/30/16

All the Dead Lie Down #3 Molley Cates (Walker) 12/30/16

Alone (Freeman) 1/15/22

An Ember in the Ashes (Tahir) 2/15/18

An Unsafe Pair of Hands (Dolley) 10/27/16

Artifacts of Death #1 Manny Rivera (Curtin) 9/18/17

Astonishing Color of After, The (Pan) 4/23/18

At First Light #1 Dr. Evan Wilding (Nickless) 11/24/21

Bailey and the Bad Boy (Linda) 5/25/22

Bat, The  #1 Harry Hole (Nesbo) 10/24/16

Be Frank With Me (Johnson) 11/2/16

Bel Canto (Patchett) 3/18/16

Bone Music #1 Burning Girl (Rice) 2/1/18

Boy from Reactor 4, The  #1 Nadia Tesla (Stelmach) 5/30/17

Braque Connection, The  #3 Genevieve Lenard (Ryan) 11/1/16

Broken Skies (#1 Broken Skies) Kay 9/30/17

Butterfly Garden, The  #1 The Collector (Hutchison) 1/6/17

Camelback Falls #2 David Mapstone (Talton) 2/18/16

Candid Life of Meena Dave (Patel) 5/30/22

Cockroaches #2 Harry Hole (Nesbo) 11/25/16

Cut to the Bone: A Body Farm Novel (Bass) 3/9/17

Daemon (Suarez) 8/12/18

Dante Connection, The  #2 Genevieve Lenard (Ryan) 8/9/16

Dark Highway #3 Jessica Shaw (Gray) 3/13/22

Dead Inside #1 Maggie Jameson (Holten) 11/23/21 READING

Dead Stop #2 Sydney Rose Parnell (Nickless) 6/20/22

Debt Collector, The  #1 Jack Winchester (Mills) 3/8/18

Demon Crown, The  (Rollins) 1/31/18

Dream Thieves, The  #2 Raven Cycle (Stiefvater) 11/16/18

Everything, Everything (Yoon) 11/2/16

Fallout #18 V.I. Warshawski 6/25/17

Finding Colin Firth: A Novel (March) 9/21/18

Fire Queen #2 Hundredth Queen (King) 9/25/17

Five Quarters of the Orange (Harris) 9/9/16

Gauguin Connection, The  #1 Genevieve Lenard (Ryan) 8/9/16

Girl Beneath the Sea, The #1 Underwater Investigation 4/24/20 Haven't Finished Yet

Grandma Gatewood's Walk (Montgomery) 9/6/18

Hades #1 Archer & Bennett (Fox) 5/17/17

Half Broken Things (Joss) 2/20/17 rec by Carol

Hangman #19 Decker & Lazarus (Kellerman) 9/6/17

Harm None #1 Davies & West (North) 9/8/17

Helsinki White #3 Inspector Vaara (Thompson) 6/9/18

Here in the Real World (Pennypacker) 3/26/20

Hidden in Plain Sight (Hopkins) #4 Serenity Amish 7/22/22

Hitman's Guide to Housecleaning, The  (Helgason) 1/12/14

Hokee Wolf (Viehweg) 9/26/17

Home Fire (Shamsie) 1/16/19

Hunt for the Dingo, The  (Nash) 5/18/18

Huntress Moon #1 Huntress FBI (Sokoloff) 2/25/18

If I Ever Get Out of Here (Gansworth) 4/7/18

Illuminai (Kaufman/Kristoff) 5/19/18

Innocent Blood #6 John Jordan (Lister) 8/3/16

Invisible Library, The  #1 Invisible Librry (Cogman) 11/20/16

Italian Villa, The (Sacerdoti) 2/1/22

Killer  Inside, The  #1 Jessica Daniel (Wilkinson) 12/5/16

King Tides, The  #1 Lancaster & Daniels (Swain) 7/1/18

Last Light #1 Beacon Falls (Lyons) 10/7/16

Last Woman Standing, The  (Adams) 6/6/16

Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster (Wilbanks) 8/15/18

Letters from Skye (Brockmole) 8/15/16

Lifelik3 (Kristoff) 6/24/19

Little Comfort #1 Hester Thursby (Hill) 11/25/18

Livia Lone #1 (Eisler) 1/6/17

Lost Hills #1 Eve Ronin (Goldberg) Have/n't Finished Yet

Louisiana's Way Home (DeCamillo) 4/27/22

Magpie Murders (Horowitz) 9/24/17 Started Twice...

Maizie Chen's Last Chance 2/8/22

Marsh King's Daughter, The  (Dionne) 8/22/18

Middle of Somewhere, The  (Yoerg) 8/7/16

Midnight Rambler #1 Jack Carpenter (Swain) 10/30/16

Midnight Winters #2 Midnight Trilogy (Hart) 12/21/18

Midnighters #1 The Secret Hour (Westerfeld)  1/7/17

Moloka'i (Brennert) 7/29/18

Moonlit Garden, The  (Bowman) 1/2/16

Murder in the Woods (Ickes) 1/4/20

Murder Under the Bridge: A Palestine Mystery (Raphael) 8/23/16

Muse: A Novel, The  (Burton) 11/25/16

Need to Know (Cleveland) 7/25/18

Neverwhere: A Novel (Gaiman) 3/21/18

Nightingale, The  (/Hannah) 10/12/17

No Mercy (Pierce) 

No Turning Back (Bush) 3/21/18

One Step Too Far (Seskis) 10/20/16

Onyx & Ivory (Arnett) 11/25/18

Past Crimes: A Van Shaw Novel (Hamilton) 11/17/16

Paths Between the Stars, The  #1 Many Skies /(Makansi) 12/29/21

Pistol Poets, The  (Gischler) 8/8/16

Priscilla and the Bishop's Gambit #3 Priscilla 8/5/22

Priscilla and the Snowfort #2 Priscilla 8/5/22

Priscilla the Princess of the Park #1 Priscilla 8/5/22

Priscilla's Picnic with the President #4 Priscilla 8/5/22

Real Men Knit #1 (Jackson) 5/25/22

Red Garden, The  (Hoffman) 11/9/16

Rest of Us Just Live Here, The  (Ness) 2/20/17

Reverand Finds His Calling, The  #1 Tony Wagner (Winskye) 3/17/16

Rhyme Schemer (Holt) 12/7/16

Ritual Bath, The  #1 Decker & Lazarus (Kellerman) 1/28/18

Round House, The  (Erdrich) 11/18/16

Running Dream, The  (Van Draanen) 9/3/17

Sadie: A Novel (Summers) 5/26/19

Searcher, The #1 Solomon Creed (Toyne) 4/12/17

Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories, The (Van Booy) 3/18/17

Secret Wife, The (Paul) 3/9/17

Secrets of Worry Dolls (Impellizzeri) 5/21/18

Self Help (Short Stories) (Lorrie Moore) 1/25/16

Serpent & Dove (Mahurin) 12/29/21

Seven Crowns (Everest) 1/14/22

Silent City #1 Claire Codella (SMith) 11/25/16

Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, The  (Jacob) 7/23/18

Snow Like Ashes (Raasch) 9/9/16

Stripped #2 Jonathan Stride (Freeman) 1/8/22

Sundown on Top of the World (Alaska) #4 Hunter Rayne (Donald) 3/17/17

Tell No One (Coben) 7/4/18

Tenth of December: Stories (Saunders) 4/17/18

These Shallow Graves (Donnelly) 10/8/16

Thornyhold (Steward) 4/20/19

Tin God #1 Delta Crossroads Trilogy (Green) 5/30/17

Truth According to Us, The  (Barrows) 10/20/16

Truth of All Things, The  #1 Archie Lean (Shields) 11/30/16

Twelve Lives of Sa/muel Hawley, The  (Tinti) 1/12/19

Unbroken Threads (Klepper) 1/16/19

Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The  (Joyce) 7/2/18

We Are All Made of Molecules (Nielsen) 11/20/16

Wednesday Sisters, The  #1 (Clayton) 9/9/16

Weight of Ink, The  (Kadish) 7/16/18

Wife 22: A Novel (Gideon) 10/6/17

Winterkill #3 Joe Pickett (Box) 9/6/18

Woman Left Behind, The  (Howard) 8/4/18

Year of Pleasures, The  (Berg) 11/13/16

Year of Wonders (Brooks) 2/7/18

Yellow Star (Roy) 12/21/16

You Go First (Kelly) 7/29/18

5. Cyber Count by S. L Beaumont

#1 or 2 Kat Munro (Don't need to read#1 if there is one before this...)

read on Kindle

2021
330 pgs.
Adult Police Procedural/Mystery
Finished 1/22/22
Goodreads rating: 4.30
My rating: 3
Setting: Contemporary London

My comments: This is all about cyber crime and crypto coin.  There are two major crimes being investigated by Kat and her cop sorta-boyfriend, Adam.  There are some really sleazy characters and it's written very simply (yet with lots of cyber crime info that I didn't care enough about, so it went in and out of my head).  Run of the mill.

Goodreads synopsis:  Has cyber-crime escalated to murder?

Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O’Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague’s teenage son goes missing, and his friend’s body is discovered, Kat finds herself working with DS Adam Jackson again.

The murder enquiry leads Adam to an exclusive London school where allegations of drugs, gaming fraud and child pornography abound. As he gets deeper into the investigation, Adam is forced to face issues in his private life while suppressing his feelings for Kat.

The faceless hackers become desperate, and Connor is found drugged with his research missing. Can Kat and Adam put the past behind them to solve a series of seemingly unrelated incidents before someone else becomes the victim of an elusive cyber-crime network?

4. Twenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea

listened on Libby/borrowed through library

2021
368 pgs.
adult mystery
Finished 1/22/22
Goodreads rating: 4.17
My rating: 4.5
Setting: mostly contemporary NYC

My comments: Oh my, talk about twists and turns and surprises!  This very complicated plot started off a bit slowly for me, but it was setting up the rest of the story really well, and once I got into it I was utterly fascinated.  And although we watch what unfolds through various eyes, each character is keeping information back, sometimes even falsifying it so we're always a little unsure of what - or why - something is happening.  There are two protagonists, Avery/Claire, a famous television investigative reporter, and Walt, a retired-in-his-forties FBI agent who now lives ... and drinks rum ... in Jamaica.  Throw in an ugly murder mystery, a woman killed on 9/11, an in-hiding hedge fund multi-millionnaire, and you have the beginning ingredients for one wild ride.

Goodreads synopsis:  Fans of Lisa Unger and Allen Eskens won’t want to miss this thrilling new suspense novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl Who Was Taken! Hiding her own dark past in plain sight, a TV reporter is determined to uncover the truth behind a gruesome murder decades after the investigation was abandoned. But TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past…

The New York Times Best Thrillers This Season | E! News Recommended Books | Overdrive Biggest Books of the Month | Everything Zoomer, December’s Best Fiction

Avery Mason, host of American Events, knows the subjects that grab a TV audience's attention. Her latest story--a murder mystery laced with kinky sex, tragedy, and betrayal--is guaranteed to be ratings gold. New DNA technology has allowed the New York medical examiner's office to make its first successful identification of a 9/11 victim in years. The twist: the victim, Victoria Ford, had been accused of the gruesome murder of her married lover. In a chilling last phone call to her sister, Victoria begged her to prove her innocence.

Emma Kind has waited twenty years to put her sister to rest, but closure won't be complete until she can clear Victoria's name. Alone she's had no luck, but she's convinced that Avery's connections and fame will help. Avery, hoping to negotiate a more lucrative network contract, goes into investigative overdrive. Victoria had been having an affair with a successful novelist, found hanging from the balcony of his Catskills mansion. The rope, the bedroom, and the entire crime scene was covered in Victoria's DNA.

But the twisted puzzle of Victoria's private life belies a much darker mystery. And what Avery doesn't realize is that there are other players in the game who are interested in Avery's own secret past--one she has kept hidden from both the network executives and her television audience. A secret she thought was dead and buried . . .

Accused of a brutal murder, Victoria Ford made a final chilling call from the North Tower on the morning of 9/11.
Twenty years ago, no one listened.
Today, you will.
TWENTY YEARS LATER, to understand the present, you need to listen to the past... 

Knitting, Crocheting, and Quilting Patterns

Patterns:

Amigurumi Octopus

Linen Stitch Dishcloth

Bathroom Mat using leftover yarn tied together

Other Stuff:

Knitting Book Reviews

Picture Books About Knitting and/or Yarn

Yarn Bombing

Linen Stitch Dishcloth

 

I've made a million and a half dishcloths out of two different knitting patterns, and one crochet pattern.  I LOVE the look of this LinenStitch dishcloth, but I've done linen stitch before and I think it takes a much longer amount of time to complete.  I'm gonna try it anyway!

This pattern came from Kristen Kristek and is a free pattern that she shares on her website, kristenisms.wordpress.com.  You can find the pattern through Ravelry or here.

I think this will be prettiest in a variegated cotton yarn, not solid...

Amigurumi Octopus

Well...I have three buddies who are all learning to crochet.  All are super animal lovers and want to learn how to crochet little animals.  So I told them I'd teach them!

On Ravelry, I looked for a simple pattern that wouldn't frustrate anyone, and found this adorable octopus pattern by Sarah Hearn, found free on her blog!  Her blog is Esshaych.com and the pattern is found there. 

It calls for double knit, or light worsted weight yarn and a size E hook.  Easy peasy!  Our lesson/get-together will be a week from Tuesday, and hopefully I'll have some photos to show afterwards!  All I need to find are the buttons for eyes.

Trying to Make a DIfference

6 cat blankets for Cat Tail Farms

delivered 1/15/2022

(There would have been 7, but I didn't get a chance to sew in the ends of the brightly striped one yet.)

This week I've also knit two Valentine dishcloths, 2 Valentine scrubbies, and three bright red Scrubbers.

Movie - Spiderman: No Way Home

PG-13 (2:28)

Wide release 12/17/2021

Viewed Monday 1/10/22 (after karate) with T at the Carlisle Theater

RT Critic: 93   Audience:  98

Critic's Consensus:  A bigger, bolder Spider-Man sequel, No Way Home expands the franchise's scope and stakes without losing sight of its humor and heart.

Cag:  4/Liked it a lot

Directed by Jon Watts

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Marvel

Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Foxx, Marisa Tomei, Willem Defoe, Alfred Molina, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire

My comments:  First thoughts?  It was really long.  There were more fighting scenes than I personally like, but that's what draws a lot of people to it, I guess, especially some of the kids and young men.  I loved the comedy.  I loved the characters, especially Dr. Strange.   And I loved, loved, loved the way they brought back Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maguire (and since it was a total surprise to me, an exceptional addition!)  Every scene with the three Spidermen was exceptional.  And I've got to say that Tom Holland was just wonderful in the role.

     A huge delight was to be sitting next to Tristan and watch his enjoyment of the movie!  It's the first one we've seen together since the pandemic started and that was a real joy, since we used to go frequently before.

     Note:  Andrew Garfield is now 38 years old, and Tobey Maguire is 46!  Tom Holland is a cutesy 25.

                                 

RT/ IMDb Summary:  For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange's help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who've ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter will have to overcome his greatest challenge yet, which will not only forever alter his own future but the future of the Multiverse.

3. Mastermind by Andrew Mayne

#1 Theo Cray & Jessica Blackwell

listened on Audible

2021
332 pgs.
Adult Mystery/Thriller/Espionage
Finished 1/7/2022
Goodreads rating:  4.32
My rating: 3.5
Setting: Contemporary all over the world, actually

My comments: From the very beginning, none of the story has any actual believability, but if you keep tongue in cheek and think of this as a fantasy, it's quite intriguing!  It takes leaps and bounds, uses non-existent clues, gives head-scratching (and quick) pseudo-explanations for most things, and leaves the reader totally clueless in places, but it's still one heck of a ride/read!  The antagonist, Michael Haywood aka The Mastermind, has been toying with Jessica for years.  And bringing Theo and Jessica together was a stroke of genius.  Both are too smart (or believable) for their owns goods and they are certainly attracted to each other.  I enjoyed it!

Goodreads synopsis:  A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void.

FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.

One by one, cities across the globe are erupting in chaos as they disappear into the same black holes. Even for two ingenious trackers like Jessica and Theo, there’s still so much to learn about the pattern to the Warlock’s madness. The voids are just a warm-up for something bigger. To discover it—to stop it—Jessica and Theo must descend into the darkest of shadows—and minds. 

2. A Not So Meet Cute by Meghan Quinn

listened on Audible

2021
402 pgs.
Adult Romance
Finished 1/2/2022
Goodreads rating: 4.25
My rating: I didn't rate it - I read it, and liked some of it, not all of it...some was pretty good and some was pretty bad.....
Setting: Contemporary LA/Beverly Hills, CA

My comments: Huxley and Lottie. The usual. Why do I read these? An extremely handsome, buff, 35 year-old billionaire businessman with no girlfriend.....right....and petite, adorable, sexy 25 year-old from the lesser parts of Beverly Hills become fakely engaged (I love fake dating stories, I guess that's what pulled me in) for absolutely ridiculous reasons. The whole story was ridiculous, unbelievable, and extremely steamy. I DID like being inside Shame-on-me, I read the whole thing, all the way through the hugely descriptive (too) steamy parts to the HEA.  But it's a pretty charming cover, wouldn't you say?

Goodreads synopsis:  How did you two meet?

The quintessential question asked to every couple. And the answer is usually some bubbly, lovey dovey tale of being struck in the bum by Cupid’s arrow.

My meet cute (well not so meet cute) is slightly different. I was trolling a wealthy neighborhood in Beverly Hills, searching for someone to take me as their bride, you know, to make my arch nemesis jealous who consequently just fired me.

He was stomping around the block like some sort of gorgeous ogre, mumbling about a business deal gone wrong and attempting to finagle his way out of it.

And that’s when we bumped into each other.

There were no sparks.

Not even a hint of blossoming love.

But next thing I knew, I was scarfing down free chips and guac, listening to this man lay out all of his problems which led to his big ask . . . he wanted me to be his Vivian Ward, you know, from Pretty Woman--minus the frisky behavior.

We’re talking about living in a mansion, intimate double dates, and pretending we were head over heels in love . . . and engaged. Can you imagine?

The absolute audacity.

But people do crazy things when they’re desperate. And I reeked of desperation. So, I struck up a deal.

My one big mistake, though . . . big . . . HUGE? I accidentally fell for the incomparable Huxley Cane.

Movie - Power of the Dog

R (2:08)

Released 11/17, Streaming began on 12/1

Viewed probably early January at home, streamed for a short time on Netflix

IMBd: 7/10

RT Critic: 95   Audience:  82

Critic's Consensus:  Brought to life by a stellar ensemble led by Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog reaffirms writer-director Jane Campion as one of her generation's finest filmmakers

Cag:  5 It was a great, even wonderful movie, but I didn't love it (see comments below)

Directed by Jane Campion

Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst

My comments:  Talk about a powerful movie!  Slow.  And dark, very dark.  There's no joy at all in this, but it's definitely a thinker!  At first I didn't think I liked it much, and my end feeling is similar.  But it's a GREAT movie.  So hard to rate when you don't really like what happens but it's put together in a spectacular package.

RT/ IMDb Summary:  Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil's romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as raw as his hides. The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil behaves so cruelly he drives them both to tears, reveling in their hurt and rousing his fellow cowhands to laughter -- all except his brother George, who comforts Rose then returns to marry her. As Phil swings between fury and cunning, his taunting of Rose takes an eerie form -- he hovers at the edges of her vision, whistling a tune she can no longer play. His mockery of her son is more overt, amplified by the cheering of Phil's cowhand disciples. Then Phil appears to take the boy under his wing. Is this latest gesture a softening that leaves Phil exposed, or a plot twisting further into menace?

This hits the nail on the head:  In The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s first feature since 2009’s Bright Star, two very different brothers come to blows about the best way to run their family’s ranch — and their lives — in 1920s Montana. Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) is greatly displeased when, during a cattle drive, his brother George (Jesse Plemons) becomes smitten with a widowed inn owner named Rose (Kirsten Dunst). She’s the mother of a sweet, gangly, effeminate young man, Peter (the extraordinary Kodi Smit-McPhee), and when she and George marry, Phil makes it his mission to bully and unsettle his new family members: Rose, because he thinks she’s after George’s money, and Peter because of his lisp and gentle ways.

This is a gorgeous, smoldering film with an all-star ensemble cast, anchored by Cumberbatch playing against type as the towering and quietly terrifying Phil. A haunting score by Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood leads the audience through the awesome tableaus of the American West (New Zealand, technically) and drip-feeds us with a mounting sense of isolation and dread. It’s a slow build, and for most of the time, I had no idea where this was all heading — which only made its shocking but well-earned ending all the more gratifying. —Shannon Keating

Poems by SUBJECT Index

 Poetry Index by Subject

A

ABECEDARIAN - "Wintering Over" -  The Monarch's Progress

ACROSTIC - "BUTTERFLY" - Silver Seeds

ACROSTIC - "CLOUDS" - Silver Seeds

ACROSTIC - "DAWN" - Silver Seeds

ACROSTIC - "Empathy" - Dictionary for a Better World

ACROSTIC - "Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress

ACROSTIC - Necessary Gardens -  Please Bury Me in the Library

ACROSTIC - "SUN" - Silver Seeds

ACROSTIC - "Top Secret" Book Speak!

ACROSTIC - "TREES" - Silver Seeds

activity - star inside apples - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun

aliens - "The Aliens Have Landed" - website

aliens - "I'm Gazing Through My Telescope" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus 

aliens - "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126

ALLITERATION - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song

ALLITERATION - "Lichens" - Forest Has a Song

alone, being - "Sometimes" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 1

America welcomes immigrants - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters

animal sounds - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury

animals/barnyard - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury

animals/general - "Hurt No Living Thing" -  Blooming Beneath the Sun

animals/imaginary - "The Jackslope" - The Poetry of US

animals/night - "Welcome the the Night" - Dark Emperor

animals/oysters - "Oyster" (haiku) -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

animals/pets - "The Animal Store" - Forget-Me-Nots

anthropomorphism - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box

appearances can be deceiving - "Things Are Different" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

apples (star inside) - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun

"April (The Frog Moon)" (Pollock) - When the Moon is Full

April Fool's Day - "April Fool's Day" - Holiday Stew

"April Rain Song" (Hughes) - Forget-Me-Nots

Arizona/Sonoran Desert/Tucson - "Legends of the Sonoran Desert" - The Poetry of US

Arizona/Sonoran Desert - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing

art/bad drawing - "The Secret of My Art" - website

art/clay - "A Lump of Clay" - Outside the Box

art/museum - "Field Trip" - First Food Fight This Fall

art/weird - "Art Class" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

autumn - "An Autumn Geeting" Grn. Ntbk. p. 27

autumn - "Awe-tumn" - Autumnblings

autumn - "Birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings

autumn - "Leaf Dance" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 253

autumn - "October" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

autumn - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween

autumn - "What I Hate About Autumn" - Autumnblings

autumn - "What I Love About Autumn" - Autumnblings

autumn/leaves turning - "october 15" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

autumn/leaves - "Leaves" - website

autumn/leaves - "The Leaves Fall Down" - website

autumn/leaves - "What To Do with Autumn Leaves" - Autumnblings

Aztec/Maya - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing

Aztec/Maya - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing

B

baking - "I Baked a Cake of Sunlight" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 33

baseball - "Baseball's Opening Day" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 99

bathroom antics  (flushing toilet, etc.) - "My Secret Karate" - No More Poems!

beaver - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full

bedtime - "Bedtime Snacks" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

being alone - "Sometimes" - Forget-Me-Nots

being happy - "Dust of Snow"- Forget-Me-Nots

being happy - "The Sun" - Forget-Me-Nots

being nice - "The Secret of My Art" - website

being outdoors - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder

bicycle - "Bicycle Dreams" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 133

bicycle - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

bicycle safety - "Bob's Bicyle Helmet" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

BIOGRAPHY poem - "No Idle Days" (about Wm. Carlos Wms.) - Out of Wonder

birds - "Bird Song" CONCRETE - Bird folder

birds - "Frustrations" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

birds - "I Heard a Bird Sing" - Forget-Me-Nots

birds - "Winter Wren" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

birds - on a high wire - "Skywriting" on website

birds - funny "Our Canary"  Grn. Ntbk. pg. 20

birds/blue jay - "Blue Jay Blues" - Today at the Bluebird Café

birds/crow - "Crow" - Flutter & Hum

birds/grouse - "Puffing up her feathers" - Sweet Dreamers

birds/house - "A household tucked inside a hole" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

birds/hummingbird - "Hummingbird" - Peacock and Other Poems

birds /loons - "The Loon's Laugh - Today at the Bluebird Café

birds/loons - "Loons" - Maine: The Way Life Should Be

birds/many - "Birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings

birds/peacock (haiku) "Peacock" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

birds/pigeons - "Bird Song" CONCRETE - Bird folder (with pigeon adaptation)

birds/ravens - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky

birds/ravens - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween

birds/ravens - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24

birds/what they eat - "Today at the Bluebird Cafe" - Today at the Bluebird Café

birds/woodpecker - "Woodpecker" - Forest Has a Song

birds/woodpecker - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café

books - "Acknowledgments" -  Please Bury Me in the Library

books - "Book Plate" - Book Speak!

books - "Books" - website

books - "Calling All Readers" - website, Book Speak!

books - "Giant Bookmobile of Tomorrow" - website, Poem-Mobiles

bridges - "Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US

"Brother" - MaryAnn Hoberman - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17

bubbles - "Bubble Poem"  Grn. Ntbk. pg. 16

bubbles - "Pop!" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 55

bubblegum - "Bubble Trouble" - Outside the Box

bugs - "A Dragonfly" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 23

bugs - "Hurt No Living Thing" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 24

bugs - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95

butterflies/monarch - "Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress

butterflies/monarch - "Wintering Over" - The Monarch's Progress

"Buttons" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 303

C

camels - "Camel" (haiku) -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

capitalization & punctuation/NONE - "Knoxville, TN" (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11

cereal - "Picky Eater" Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83

chant - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury

chant - "The Popcorn Hop" - The Read Aloud Treasury

Chavez, Cesar/ABOUT - "The Organizer" - Heroes and She-roes

"Chinese New Year" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 18

Chinese New Year - "Celebrating Chinese New Year" - Holiday Stew

Chinese New Year - "Prayer for the Lunar New Year" - Days to Celebrate

"Chocolate" (Mora) - Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!

Cinderella - "Cinderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror

CINQUAIN (2-4-6-8-2) "Courage" - Dictionary for a Better World

CINQUAIN (2-4-6-8-2) three by Tristan Kilko

citizenship - "A Dream Come True" (Heard) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 247

city - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love

Civil War - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US

classics/older - "April Rain Song" (Hughes) Forget-Me-Nots

classics/older - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots

classics/older - "Fog" (Sandburg) Forget-Me-Nots

classics/older - "Hurt No Living Thing" (Rossetti) Blooming Beneath the Sun

classics/older - "I Heard a Bird Sing" (Herford) Forget-Me-Nots

classics/older - "My Shadow" (Stevenson) - website

classics/older - "Night" (Teasdale) - Forget-Me-Nots

classics/older - "Who Has Seen the Wind" (Rossetti) - Blooming Beneath the Sun, Forget-Me-Nots

clothing/sweatshirt - "Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

"Clouds" (Worth) - Peacock and Other Poems

coast/ocean - "On My Island" (Hubbell) APP#1 p. 14

coast/ocean - "Watercolor Maine" APP#1 p. 18

cockroach - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95

coffee-drinking parents - "They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing

coins - "Pocket Change" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117

cold/head cold - Bella Had a New Umbrella" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 19

cold/head cold - "I've Got a Cold Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 20

cold/weather - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air

cold/weather - "Words" - A Chill in the Air

Collins, Billy/ABOUT - "How Billy Collins Writes a Poem" - Out of Wonder

colors - "If I Could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew

colors/black & gray - "What Happens to the Colors? - website

colors/gray - Shades of Gray" - Outside the Box

color/brown - "Sienna" - Tan to Tamarind

colors/green & blue - "Green Fog" - Yellow Elephant

colors/orange - "By the Sea" - Delicious!

color/orange - "Orange Giraffe" - Yellow Elephant

colors/yellow - "In Amarillo, Texas" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

comparisons/old & young - "In Between" - What Are You Glad About?  What Are You Mad About?

complaining - "Jane the Complainer" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 56

CONCRETE - "The Flying Leap" (penguin) - Superlative Birds

CONCRETE - "Pop" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 55

CONCRETE - "QuartzQuartzQuartz" - Earthshake

COUPLETS - "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US

COUPLETS - "Poet" - The Underwear Salesman

COUPLETS - "Waiter" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 8

courage - "courage" - Dictionary for a Better World

coyotes - from "Mojave" (Siebert) - APP#1 p. 30

cupcakes - "Cupcakes" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

D

dancing - "Why?" (Livingston) APP#1 p. 22

dawn - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes

Day of the Dead - "On the Day of the Dead" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 293

desert - from "Mojave" (Siebert) - APP#1 p. 30

desert - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8

desert - "Sienna" - Tan to Tamarind

desert - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant

Dewey Decimal System - "Looking for a  Book: Dialogue With a Librarian" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 319

dialect/southern slave - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters

diary - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!

Dickinson, Emily - "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking" APP#1 p. 5

dictionary - "Dictionary Doings" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 275

differences - "Kids Who Are Different" - website

dinosaurs - "Dinosaur Dinners" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 259

dinosaurs - "Stegosaurus" - website

dinosaurs - "Trilobite," "Brachytrachelopan," "Quetzalcoatlus", Titanoboa annd Carbonemys" - In the Past

disabilities - "Kids Who Are Different" - website

"Discovery" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun

"Do Not Jump on Ancient Uncles" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 21

dogs (pug, bassett hound, chihuahua, dachshund, german shepherd, poodle, greyhound) Bark in the Park!

dogs - "The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

dogs/service animals - "Brave Dog!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 233

Dracula - "A Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73

"Dragonfly, A" - (Farjen) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 23

"Dragns, Lins/ Red and gold" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 18

Dreams - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky

E

Earth Day - "We Are the Ocean" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 82

earth's formation - "Recipe for Granite" - Earthshake

eggs (Hoberman) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 8

"Eletelophony" (Richards) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17

"Emprer Penguins" (Davies) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 7

epitaphs - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween

everything & anything - "Prayer in My Boot" - website

explorers - "Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography 

F

fables - "Fables" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 87

fairy tale/Cinderella - "Cinderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror

family - "Brother" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17

Farjeon - "There Isn't Time" APP#1 p. 6

farm animals - "Barnyard Chat" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 13

favorite things - "Bedtime Snacks" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

Field, Rachel - "Some People" APP#1 p. 7

"Field Trip" (Singer) - First Food Fight This Fall

figurative language/imagery - "A household tucked inside a hole" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

figurative language/imagery - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

"Fireworks" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun

fish - "Art Class" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

flowers/daisies - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are" - Blooming Beneath the Sun

flowers/tulips - "The Yellow Tulip" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 25

"Fog" (Sandburg) - Forget-Me-Nots & Grn. Ntbk. pg. 4 & APP#1 p. 28

food (oranges/orange juice) "By the Sea" - Delicious!

food (tomatoes) "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Acknowledgments" - Please Bury Me in the Library

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Butterfly" - Silver Seeds

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Calling All Readers" - Book Speak!

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY -  "A Centipede Was Thirsty" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "The Flying Leap" - Superlative Birds

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Kids Who Are Different" - website

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Hurt No Living Thing" - Blooming Beneath the Sun

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - ""In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY -  "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY -  "march 20" (early spring) - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Mud" - The Read Aloud Treasury

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Snake" - Flutter & Hum

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Sometimes" - Forget-Me-Nots

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Song" - Forest Has a Song

FOR NEXR POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Spring Me" - First Food Fight This Fall

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Toad by the Road" - website, Forget-Me-Nots

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Today at the Bluebird Café" Today at the Bluebird Café

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Treasure Words" - Days to Celebrate

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Weather" - Days to Celebrate

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "What To Do with Autumn Leaves" - Autumnblings

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Winter in the South (by a kid from the north)" - Holiday Stew

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOOGY - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café

FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Words" - A Chill in the Air

forest/woods - "Lichens" - Forest Has a Song

forest/woods - "Song" - Forest Has a Song

fossil hunting - "Fossil" - Forest Has a Song

FOUR-LINE RHYME (aaaa) - "Steam Engine" - Clackety Track

Frank, Anne/ABOUT - "Faith of a Mustard Seed" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

Frank, Anne/ABOUT - "This Moment" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

free verse - Knoxville, TN (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11

free verse/no rhyming - "Stone Wall" - website

freedom - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters

frogs - "Frog" (haiku) -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

frogs - "Green Frogs" - Yellow Elephant

frogs - "April (The Frog Moon)" - When the Moon is Full

Frost, Robert - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots

Frost, Robert - "In Hardwood Groves" - website

Frost, Robert - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" APP#1 p. 9

fun/funny - "Eighteen Flavors" (Silverstein) - APP#1 p. 31

fun/funny - "Eletelephony" (Richards) - APP#1 p. 27

fun/funny - "Homework, Oh, Homework!" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 25

fun/funny - "I Scream!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 201

fun/funny - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20

fun/funny - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 26

fun/funny - "Picky Eater" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83

fun/funny - "Rules" (Kuskin) APP#1 p. 17

funny - "I Played a Game of Golf Today" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

funny - "I'm Stuck to a Magnet" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 77

funny - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box

funny - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95

funny - "My Secret Karate" - No More Poems!

funny -  "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

funny - "Pigs" APP#1 p. 10

funny - "The Secret of My Art" - website

funny - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café

"Fuzzy Wuzzy" (traditional) - The Read Aloud Treasury & Grn. Ntbk. pg. 12

G

garden - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween

geography/equator - Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography 

geography/horizon - "Horizon" - Got Geography 

geography/latitude & longitude - "Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography 

giraffe - "Orange Giraffe" - Yellow Elephant

going wrong - "My Pencil will Not Write" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

"Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US

grandmothers - "Abuelita Is My Grandma" - I Call My Grandma Nana

grandmothers - "My Mamie Likes Hummingbirds" I Call My Grandma Nana

gratitude - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew

greenery/ferns - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song

Groundhog Day - "A Groundhog Speaks" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 68

Groundhog Day - "groundhog" - Days to Celebrate

Groundhog Day - "Groundhognostiation" - The Poetry of US

Groundhog Day - "Mr. Groundhog" (Yolen) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 57

H

HAIKU - "Vhovolsyr" - Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!

HAIKU - "Camel" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKU -  "Frog" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKU - "Mole" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKU - "Oyster" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKU - "Peacock" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKY - "Spring" - V

HAIKU - "Zebra" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

HAIKU (Six of them) - Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 36

Halloween -  Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73

Halloween - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air

Halloween - "Lone Star Witches" - Hallowilloween

Halloween - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween

"Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" (Schertle) - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

happy - "Why?" (Livingston) APP#1 p. 22

happy, being - "The Sun" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 2

harvest "Thanksgiving" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 28

hats - "Hats Off to Hat Day" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 37

helping others - "Nicholas Cobb" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

helping others - "Ripples" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

heroes - "Heroes and She-roes" (Lewis) Heroes and She-roes

history/Mexico/Maya - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing

history/US - "Pocket Change" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117

"Horizon" (Yolen) - Got Geography 

homework - "Homework, Oh, Homework!" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 25

homework - "If I Had No Homework" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 18

horse - "The horse dreams standing up" - Sweet Dreamers

Hughes, Langston - "April Rain Song" APP#1 p. 15

I

"I" POEMS - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

"I" POEMS - "Faith of a Mustard Seed" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

"I" POEMS - "Ice-Cream Cone" - Dear Hot Dog

"I" POEMS - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder

"I" POEMS - "Painter" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

ice cream - "Eighteen Flavors" (Silverstein) - APP#1 p. 31

ice cream - "I Scream!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 201

"If I Had a hundred dollars to spend" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 1

immigrants/citizenship - "A Dream Come Ture" (Heard) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 247

immigration - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters

island living - "On My Island" (Hubbell) APP#1 p. 14

island living - "Watercolor Maine" APP#1 p. 18

"It's ok" - VanDerwater, website

J

jackalopes - "The Jackalope" - The Poetry of US

"January" (Foster) Sing a Song of Seasons

Jim Crow - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters

journal writing - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!

Judaic/Rosh Hashanah - "Casting Away Sins" - Every Month Is a New Year

K

"Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" (DeRegniers) - Sing a Song of Seasons

"Kids Who Are Different" (Digby Wolfe) - website

Kilko, Tristan - three cinquains

kindness - "How to Love Your Little Corner of the World" (Spinelli) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 61

kindness - "Kindness" - Dictionary for a Better World

kindness/empathy - "Empathy" - Dictionary for a Better World

Kuskin, Karla - "Rules" APP#1 p. 17

L

Labor Day - "It's Labor Day" - Holiday Stew

Labor Day - "Labor Day" - Days to Celebrate

Labor Day - "My Father Woke Us Early" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 

Lear - "An Old Man with a Beard (limerick) APP#1 p. 19

leaves - "Leaf Dance" (Harrison) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 253

leaves - "Leaves" (Gerstein) - website

leaves - "The Leaves Fall Down" - website

leaves - "October" - Tap Dancing on the Roof

leaves turning - "october 15" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

legend/Mexican - "Rabbit in the Moon" - The Ancestors Are Singing

libraries - "The Library" - website

libraries - "Looking for a  Book: Dialogue With a Librarian" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 319

libraries - "Necessary Gardens" -  Please Bury Me in the Library

life (goes by so fast) - "There Isn't Time" APP#1 p. 6

life cycles/butterflies - "The Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress

limerick - "An Old Man with a Beard - APP#1 p. 19

LIST POEM - "birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings

LIST POEM - "The Greater Sum of Parts" - website

LIST POEM - "The Museum Door" (Hopkins) - APP#1 p. 13

LIST POEM - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun

LIST POEM - "Prayer in My Boot" - website

LIST POEM - "Take a Number" - website

LIST POEM - "Things Not To Do" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 149

LIST POEM - "Tomates = Toatoes" - Gathering the Sun

LIST POEM - "Tree Song" - website

LIST POEM - "What I Hate About Autumn" - Autumnblings

LIST POEM - "What I Love About Autumn"  Autumnblings

LIST POEM - "What To Do About Autumn" - Autumnblings

lizard - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant

lobsters - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

M

magnets - "I'm Stuck to a Magnet" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 77

Maine - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

Maine - "Watercolor Maine" - APP#1 p. 18

making a difference - "Heroes and She-roes" - Heroes and She-roes

making a difference - "Nicholas Cobb" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

making a difference - "Ripples" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

making a differenct - "Making a Difference" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 82

"Marathon Runner" (Lewis) - The Underwear Salesman

math/money - "The Animal Store" - Forget-Me-Nots

mathematics - "Horizon" - Got Geography 

mathematics - "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

mathematics - "Take a Number" - website

Maya/Aztec - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing

Maya/Aztec - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing

melting pot - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters

metamorphosis - "Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress
METAPHOR - "Awe-tumn" - Autumnblings

METAPHOR - "Clouds" - Peacock and Other Poems

METAPHOR - "CLOUDS" - Silver Seeds

METAPHOR - "Fireworks" - Swing Around the Sun

METAPHOR - "How to Eat a Poem" - APP#1 p. 23

METAPHOR - "In the Land of Words" - website

METAPHOR - "January" - Sing a Song of Seasons

METAPHOR - "Kindness" - Dictionary for a Better World

METAPHOR - "Owl" - Flutter & Hum

METAPHOR- "Pencils" - Days to Celebrate

METAPHOR - "Poems" (Katz) APP#1 p. 16

Mexican/Hispanic - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun

Mexican/Hispanic - "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun

migrant workers - "The Organizer" - Heroes and She-roes

mindfulness - "A Walk in the Woods" (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21

moles - "Mole" (haiku) -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

monarch butterfly - "Wintering Over" - The Monarch's Progress

money - "Pocket Change)- Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117

moon - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box

moon - "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" - website

moon - "Rabbit in the Moon" - The Ancestors Are Singing

moon/full - "April (The Frog Moon)" - When the Moon is Full

moon/full - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full

moose - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box

moral - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween

"Mother's Plea" (Hopkins) - City I Love

mud - "Mud" - The Read Aloud Treasury

mud - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20

mud - "Ode to Muddy Puddles" (de Roo) website

museums - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing

museums - "The Museum Door (Hopkins) - APP#1 p. 13

museums/art - "Field Trip" - First Food Fight This Fall

music making - "Make a Joyful Noise" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 263

"My Pencil Will Not Write" (everything's going wrong)  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

"My Secret Karate" (bathroom antics) - No More Poems!

"My Shadow" (Stevenson) - website

N

nature - "A Walk in the Woods" (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21

new year - "New Year Is Here" (Nesbitt) Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 29

new year -  "The Year Turns" - Every Month Is a New Year

new year's resolutions - "On the Last Day of December" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 30

nighttime - "Night" - Forget-Me-Nots

nighttime - "Owl" - Flutter & Hum

nighttime - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor

numbers - "Take a Number" - website

O

observations - "Prayer in My Boot" - website

ocean - "august 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

"October" (Park) - Tap Dancing on the Roof

O'Keeffe, Georgia/ABOUT - "Painter" - Dare to Dream...Change the World

okay, being okay - "It's ok" - VanDerwater, website

"Old Palaces" (Johnston) - The Ancestors Are Singing

Oliver, Mary/ABOUT - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder

otters - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

outer space - "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126

P

PA - Gettysburg - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US

PA -Gobbler's Knob -  "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US

paint-a-picture - "Balloon Car" - Poem-Mobiles

paint-a-picture - "february 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

paint-a-picture - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are - Blooming Beneath the Sun

painting-a-poem- "If I Could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew

paleontology - "Dinosaur Dinners" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 259

pasta - "Ready for Spaghetti" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 277

parents - "They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing

pencils - "Pencils" - Days to Celebrate

penguins - "Diary of a Very Short Winter Day" - website
penguins/emperor - "Emperor Penguins" - website

penguins/emperor - "The Flying Leap" - Superlative Birds

people - "Some People" APP#1 p. 7

PERSONIFICATION- "april 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

PERSONIFICATION - "Fog" - Forget-Me-Nots and APP#1 p. 28

PERSONIFICATION - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box

PERSONIFICATION - "Stone Wall" - website

PERSONIFICATION - "SUN" - Silver Seeds

PERSONIFICATION - "Woodpecker" - Forest Has a Song

pets - "I'm Allergic to My Puppy" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 28

"Picky Eater" (Esenwine) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83

pigeons - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love

pigs - "Pigs" (Ghigna) APP#1 p. 10

pizza - "Pizza Week Menu"  - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 35

play on another poem/Frost - "Acknowledgments" -  Please Bury Me in the Library

poetry - "Poetry" - website

poetry/loving - "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" ' Sing a Song of Seasons

poetry/memorizing - "A Poem for the Reader" - website

poetry/poem - "How to Eat a Poem" (Merriam) APP#1 p. 23

poetry/poems - "Poems" (Katz) APP#1 p. 16

poetry/poems/writing - "Some Reasons to Write a Poem" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 103

poetry/writing - "Poet" - The Underwear Salesman

poetry/writing - "How Billy Collins Writes a Poem" - Out of Wonder

poetry/writing - "How to Write a Poem" (abt. Naomi Shihab Nye) - Out of Wonder

poetry/writing - "Poetry" - website

poetry/writing - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots  APP#1 p 12

poetry/writing - "Windsong" - Sing a Song of Seasons

poets/many mentioned - "Acknowledgments" -  Please Bury Me in the Library

pond - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full

popcorn - "The Popcorn Hop" - The Read Aloud Treasury

Prelutsky - "Homework! Oh, Homework!" - APP#1 p. 25

Prelutsky - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" - APP#1 p. 26

PREPOSITION POEM - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes

pride - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun

puddles - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20

Punxsutawney Phil - "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US

Q

"QuartzQuartzQuartz" (Peters) - Earthshake

QUATRAIN - "Abuelita Is My Grandma" - I Call My Grandma Nana

QUATRAIN - "My amie Likes Hummingbirds" - I Call My Grandma Nana

QUESTION poems - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box

QUESTION poems - "What Happens to the Colors?" - website

R

rain - "April Rain Song" - Forget-Me-Nots

rain - "Crow" - Flutter & Hum

rain - "Rain" - The Read Aloud Treasury

reading - "Calling All Readers" - website

reading - "Giant Bookmobile of Tomorrow" - website

reading - "Stop! Let's Read" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 115

relax/rest - "A Walk in the Woods (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21

repetition - "Earth, What Will You Give Me?" - Days to Celebrate

repetition - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots and APP#1 p.12

repetition - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor

repetition, rhyme, & rhythm - "A House is a House for Me - The Read Aloud Treasury

REVERSO Poem - "Chiderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror

rhythm - "Today at the Bluebird Cafe" - Today at the Bluebird Café

rocks & minerals - "QuartzQuartzQuartz" - Earthshake

rocks & minerals - "Recipe for Granite" - Earthshake

Rosh Hashanah - "Casting Away Sins" - Every Month Is a New Year

rules - "Rules" (Kuskin) APP#1 p. 17

rules - "Things Not To Do" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 149

S

safety/bicycle - 'Bob's Bicycle Helmet"  Button Up!  Wrinkled Rhymes

saguaro - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8

saguaro - "Storms in Oaxaca" - v

"Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween

seasons/all - "Earth, What Will You Give Me?" - Days to Celebrate

senses - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor

service animals/dogs - "Brave Dog! - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 233

shadows - "My Shadow" - website

Shakespeare - "Sonnet 18" - APP#1 p. 29

sick, feeling - "I've Got a Cold" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 20

silly - "Balloon Car" - Poem-Mobiles

silly - "The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles"- In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden

Silverstein - "Eighteen Flavors" - APP#1 p. 31

SIMILE - "Ice-Cream Cone" - Dear Hot Dog

SIMILE - "Leaves" - website

SIMILE - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

SIMILE - "Poetry" - website

SIMILE - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are" - Blooming Beneath the Sun

size comparison - "august 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

skies/sky - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24

skywatching - "I'm Gazing Through My Telescope" -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

slavery - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters

slavery/escaping - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate

sleeping (sloth, horse, grouse) - Sweet Dreamers

sloth - "Slung like a hammock..." - Sweet Dreamers

snakes - "Snake" (Pashkis) - Flutter & Hum

snakes - "Titanoboand Carbonemys" - In the Past

snow - "Footprints" - A Chill in the Air

snow - "April Waking" (Vanderwater) - Forest Has a Song

snow - "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" - APP#1 p. 9

snow/first snow - "White Sound" - website from Sing a Song of Seasons

snow/first snow - "december 29" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

snow/not enough - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air

snowmen - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air

"Socks"(Gerstein) - Dear Hot Dog

song/chant - "Doing Song" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

song tune (Take Me Out to the Ballgame) They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing

Sonoran Desert - "Legends of the Sonoran Desert" - The Poetry of US

Sonoran Desert - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing

Sonoran Desert - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky

Sonoran Desert - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8

Sonoran Desert - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant

sounds - "Song" - Forest Has a Song

sounds - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love

sounds/nature - "Frustrations" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

sounds/nature - "The Loon's Laugh" - Today at the Bluebird Café

SW/canyons - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24

SW/southwest - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8

spaghetti - "Ready for Spaghetti" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 277

Spanish to English - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun

Spanish to English - Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun

spider's web - "Dew on a Spider's Web" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 25

sports/running - "Marathon Runner" - The Underwear Salesman

spring - "(A haiku)" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound

spring - "If I could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew

spring - "Toad by the Road" - website

spring awakening - "April Waking"  - Forest Has a Song

spring/first signs - "march 20" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

spring fever - "Spring Me!" - First Food Fight This Fall

star inside apple - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun

stars - "september 10" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

"Stone Wall" - website

"Storm" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun

"Storms in Oacaca" (Johnston) - The Ancestors Are Singing

summer - "Knoxville, TN" (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11

summer storm - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun

sun - "The Sun" - Forget-Me-Nots

sunrise - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes

T

teachers/heroes - "The Elementary School Teacher - Heroes and She-roes

teachers/funny - "The Aliens Have Landed" - website

Texas - Lone Star Witches" - Hallowilloween

thankfulness - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew

Thanksgiving - "I'm Thankful for the Sunshine" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 109

Thanksgiving - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew

Thanksgiving - "Thanksgiving Dinner" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 70

toad - "Toad by the Road" - website, Forget-Me-Nots

tomatoes - "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun

tongue-twister - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song

tongue-twister - "Eletelephony" (Richards) - APP#1 p. 27

"Toothbrush" (Gerstein) - Dear Hot Dog

traditional - "Fuzzy Wuzzy" - The Read Aloud Treasury

trains - "Steam Engine" - Clackety Track

"Trees" (Coleridge) - website

"Trees" (Kilmer) - website

trees - "Evergreen" - website

trees - "In Hardwood Groves" - website

trees - "The Tree on the Corner" - website

trees - "Tree Song" (Lyon) - website

trees/spruce - "february 3"- When Green Becomes Tomatoes

trees/survival - "What Do the Trees Know?" - Winter Bees

trick or treating - "A Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73

trilobites - "Fossil" - Forest Has a Song

trilobites - "Trilobite" - In the Past

TRIPLETS - "What Do the Trees Know?" - Winter Bees

Tubman, Harriet - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate

TWO VOICES - "Skywriting" - Laura Purdie Salas on website

TWO VOICES - "Voice" - Dictionary for a Better World

U

UFOs- "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126

Underground Railroad - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate

V

verbs/snazzy  - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny

W

war/Gettysburg/Civil War - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US

weather/cold - "Words" - A Chill in the Air

weather/fog - "Fog" (Sandburg) - APP#1 p. 28

weather/general - "Weather" - Days to Celebrate

weather/gray day - "april 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

weather/gray day - "It's an Ugly Day" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

weather/rain - "April Rain Song" - Forget-Me-Nots

weather/rain - "Rain" (Stevenson) - The Read Aloud Treasury

weather/rain - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun

weather/snow - "Footprints" - A Chill in the Air

weather/snow - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air

weather/summer storm - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun

weather/wind - "Who Has Seen the Wind?" - Blooming Beneath the Sun, Forget-Me-Nots

winter - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots

winter - "february 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes

winter night - "Night" - Forget-Me-Nots

winter night - "Pine Tree Tops" - website

winter/in the south - "Winter in the South (by a kid from the north)" - Holiday Stew         

witches - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air

witches - "Lone Str Witches" - Hallowilloween

wonderful words (vocab) - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 26

"Words" (Frank) - A Chill in the Air

words - "Books" - website

words - "Dictionary Doings" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 275

words - "In the Land of Words" - website

words - "Treasure Words" - Days to Celebrate

words - "Voice" - Dictionary for a Better World

writing in a diary - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!

writing/writing poems - "Some Reasons to Write a Poem" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 103

writing poems - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots

XYZ

YA - "Prayer in My Boot" (Nye) - website

zebra - "Zebra" (haiku) -  I've Lost My Hippopotamus

Included:

all website poetry

green notebook - partially done

APP#1

Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky)

Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell)