My students love the poems in those books and when they find out all of them make a story, they actually read them. FANTASTIC!!! favorite_border favorite Favorite. I believe middle school students of all cultures will be able to relate to these poems in an enjoyable way. I give it a 3/5. The varying opinions towards love are hilarious. I was too caught up in trying to understand what Soto meant by each line he wrote to enjoy the story. This captures teenaged love very well. One line that I do remember distinctively that I understood and loved was "From saying how much I love you. I would recommend this book to someone who likes romance novels.Although I do love metaphors and symbolism, there wasn't enough moderation between figurative writing and "normal", direct writing. Partly Cloudy is a book of poetry about love in the adolescent life. However, I don't like how this book is so short and leaves you hanging on the edge of the end of the book. The author captured the excitement of the first kiss, the devastation of a breakup, the wondering if "he" likes me, the yearning when "she" is away.
I often refer to it as 'a mix of sunshine and cloud'. I will totally give this book 5 stars by the detailed poems of each page. Print book. I gave it three stars because I thought some poems were good but, some did not make sense to me. And to be honest, there's little difference between certain cloud coverage forecast terms. send Assign as HW. Find the short film Partly Cloudy by Pixar on Di Even though Soto took about a page and a half describing how tiring loving his crush was, I believe that in just those fewAlthough I do love metaphors and symbolism, there wasn't enough moderation between figurative writing and "normal", direct writing. I liked that distinction because it gave two sides of a story, even though the stories didn't necessarily overlap, and it gave a wider view of what love and growing up means. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I didn't find it to be deeply moving or intensely motivating, but it did hearken back to the silly, giggly, melty, buttery "love" feelings of adolescence.
Perhaps what I liked best was that the boy and girl poems weren't all that different in the end. The storks take babies that the clouds are creating to their natural parents. Humorist and This American Life fixture Sarah Vowell tackles the intertwined worlds of politics, popular culture, and her own life with a compulsively readable blend of wit, candor, and heart. I loved how Soto did a half of the book from a girl's point of view, and the other half from the boy's point of view. Having a similar poem, but different points of view I think would be a great second book to complement this one...then again, it may be too repetitious to have the same story, just different points of view...but it'd be great to use fromSuper cute teen book full of poetry.
I liked some of the poems in this book becausThis book was a really quick read. Would have been cool to see one side of the page as the girl and the boy's reflection on the opposing page. Selected from "Beehive Award" list nominees.Crystal Hansen, LS 583. Would guess target audience is actually pre-teens as the poems are not very complex. It helped me recall the giddiness of crushes, and the intense feelings that come with our first attempts at becoming adults. You can almost match up some of the poems from the first section with the second section! One line that I do remember distinctively that I understood and loved was "From saying how much I love you. One of the poems was about a girl who loved a boy and she just could not find a way to tell him. Each poem in this collection is told from the perspective of an adolescent who is “in love.” The first half of the poems are written from the perspective of a girl while the second half of the poems are written from the perspective of a boy.
This book would be recommended to any teenager that is feeling lost. New York: Harcourt. The first part, "A Girl's Tears, Her Songs", was written from a young woman's perspective. Click on this message to dismiss it. This refreshing collection of poems transported me back to those innocent, anxious moments between being a child and becoming an adult. Thank you very much for your great work! All of the poems are love poems that, from my point of view, are written through the eyes of someone in either middle school or high school. New York: Harcourt. Soto, G. (2009). It just didn't do it for me.I like Gary Soto's realness and bluntness. Thank you!