Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

by Kristine O'Connell George

Book Overview

The ups and downs of the middle school experience are explored in these poems by award-winning poet Kristine O'Connell George "Engaging." --The Bulletin "Sweet and on key." --Booklist "From humorous... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618152504
• ISBN13: 9780618152506
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7

Customer Reviews

Angst and Recovery

I've purchased this book twice. I purchased it last year because my daughter needed a book of poetry for a reading class assignment. Both she and I found it a perfect read, not only for her assignment, but also because it spoke to her feelings as a new middle schooler. My second purchase was as a gift for a friend of my daughter's who is an avid reader, though I don't know how she feels about poetry. (I guess we'll know soon.) The book is so current that I'm confident that she'll enjoy it.

Poetry Worth Reading!

"Swimming Upstream" is a wonderful book filled with poems about 7th grade. It tells how 7th grade really is. How you go to a bigger school, have your own locker, home room, surviving the lunchroom,etc. I think kids will really enjoy this because it relates to them. I really liked this book. Everything these poems describe is true. This is a great book.

This book rocks!!

I really liked this book even though I'm a guy and it's about a girl. Some of the same stuff has happened to me in middle school as in the pomes.

Transition to Middle School Captured in Verse

The book may not qualify as great poetry, but it does a good job of showing the point of view of a child enduring the sometimes frightening, difficult, and at times even exhilarating transition to middle school. Sixth graders (or kids in the first year of middle school) are likely to really connect with the short poems in this book. It is easy to read and appealing.