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    <body><![CDATA[this book was funny and weird. i never knew that you can write a novel including poetry in it. it seems so hard. along the way i enjoyed reading it because it was cool how he was talking about his ex girlfriends and what he did with them. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kevin Boland, a 14 year old first baseman, is stricken with mononucleosis and is unable to go to school or play his beloved baseball.  His father gives him a notebook in case he feels the urge to write and shortly thereafter, Kevin finds a book about poetry and uses it to secretly write different ki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67838310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it as it is from the perspective of a teenage boy.  Creative.  Unusual]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shakespeare Bats Cleanup is the witty and touching observations of a teenage boy who discovers poetry while recovering from mono. Written like a diary, the main character Kevin is at first resistant to writing. He has been an accomplished baseball player, and doesn’t want to identify himself as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1774035">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a study in fixed form poetry. Koertge does it so well, readers don't even know they are reading it. Superb. I love it. It's good it's short so one can take the time to savor each poem and decipher the various forms. Read through first to find out what's happening and then backtrack a bit, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70401552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought that Koertge’s book, though written with the MG audience in mind, was written as an exercise in craft. I just felt the narrative arc was not as solid and the poetry was not a sophisticated as that of others in the genre.  This may be due to the intended age of the reading audience but I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39792972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How often do you find a book of poetry, Shakespeare, and baseball?  When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book about an 8th grade boy who is stuck at home with mono and begins keeping a poetry journal to chronicle his thoughts.  The whole book is written in free verse, along with some specific poetry formats that he tries out as he experiments with poetry.<br/><br/>The story was nice, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71834512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poetry and baseball...not your usual combination. Kevin a first baseman, gets mono, right in the middle of baseball season. He can't play and has to 'ride the bench'. His dad, a writer, encourages him to read and write poetry in his journal. Kevin finds a way to combine his love of baseball with poe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18603139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been reading some novels in verse, and I think this would be one for the boys.  It's about a guy who is sick with mono and can't play baseball and starts writing poetry.  Good read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A teen baseball player sidelined with mono finds a book on poetry and experiments with different types of verse to explain his life and emotions.  The whole book is in poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Kevin gets sick with mono, he has to take a break from baseball. Instead he decides to try his hand at poetry.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i thought this book was gong to be stupid because of its nothing but poems but it was funy and good.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland gets sidelined from the baseball team because of mono, his writer-Dad hands him a notebook: “Maybe you’ll feel like writing something down.” Before he knows it, Kevin is feverishly writing pantoums in memory of his mom, haikus about his ex…the poems just k...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17096154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a lesson about a boy can learn to write poetry but it takes practice]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting take at poetry and baseball-a middle school read put all in poetry]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[other than the fact that this book went by to fast it was amazing.  i dont know but i like to actually READ a book not just half way read a book.  i like to get a whole story and spend actually time reading a book.  when a book is so short you dont know when and where to start and stop reading it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1686430">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like the book a lot<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. Not only did it meld to things I greatly love (poetry and baseball), but it realistically shows the aversion many teen boys have to poetry, but how that perception can change. A fun and inspiring read. ]]></body>
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