Bibliograph

The secret of me, Meg Kearney

Type

Label

The secret of me, Meg Kearney

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-134)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The secret of me

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60557414

Responsibility statement

Meg Kearney

Summary

While trying to find her place within her adoptive family and within the wider world, fourteen-year-old Lizzie reveals her secret wishes and fears in a collection of blues poems, list poems, sonnets, sestinas, and free verse. Includes a guide to poetic forms

Table Of Contents

How I arrived -- Family portrait -- Two mothers -- Empty list poem -- What I remember: summer -- Self-portrait -- What I want -- Sense of smell -- Reading my poem "what I want" to Mom -- Broken place -- Irish chowder -- What happened to Cathy (and me) on the playground in third grade -- My new "best friend" -- Word pictures of Kate & Bob -- Slumber party -- What I remember: fall -- Wave -- Phone call stories -- Cathy's story -- Jan tells her story -- Broken place II -- Parents night at New Hook High School: the uncensored report -- E-love -- Dumb -- What sisters are for -- Friends -- Another one of us -- Adopt a useless blob (signs I've spotted) -- Crossing our hearts in the dark -- History lesson -- Different -- E-love gone bad -- Food fight -- Box -- Love sick -- What I remember: winter -- Searching sestina -- Taboo subject -- Five: home game -- Wishing -- What I remember: Christmas -- Bad news, good news -- Mistakes -- More advice about searching -- Crazy love pantoum -- Secret's out at dinner -- What to wear to the dance? I worry and Kate gives advice -- Dance -- Health lesson -- Matter of loyalty -- Cathy's best advice -- What I remember: spring -- After Peter meets my family -- Sharing secrets at James Bard State Park -- Bird -- Meeting the family of Peter Robert Woodward IV -- Why not -- When I was little -- I'm American -- Debating the secrets -- Girl talk -- Kind of saviors -- Broken place III -- Cure for the blues -- Late spring cleaning -- Life lessons -- Key -- Good student -- Summer job blues -- Widening the circle -- Two of me -- Notes for a letter I might write someday -- In my room, I read Dad a poem -- Afterword -- Guide to this book's poetics -- Some poems Lizzie loves -- Cows at night by Hayden Carruth -- Homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton -- Victims of the latest dance craze by Cornelius Eady -- Names of horses by Donald Hall -- Cinderella by Anne Sexton -- Song of myself (excerpts) by Walt Whitman -- Recommended books about poetry -- Recommended books about adoption -- Acknowledgments

Target audience

juvenile

Classification