![]() "Not just yet." I straightened up a stack of poems on my bed. "Mama says we got to move pretty quick here," he said, eyeing all my boxes. He had a way about him that made all the tired go out of a person. "You don't believe in letting a person settle themselves in before you get to bothering them, now, do you?" But I patted the corner of the bed. "Hey, Hem." I moved a couple of boxes aside so he could come in. ![]() Writing poetry helps fifth-grader Harper Lee Morgan cope with her father's absence, being evicted, and having to skip school to care for her brother while their mother works, and things look even brighter after she befriends a mute girl and a kindly disabled woman. Originally published: New York : Henry Holt, 2009. ![]() People with disabilities - Juvenile fiction. Dysfunctional families - Juvenile fiction. Single-parent families - Juvenile fiction. ![]() Saved in: Bibliographic Details Author / Creator: ![]()
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