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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9780439636155
ISBN number: 0142401498
Label: Puffin
Manufacturer: Puffin
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 112
Printing Date: December 29, 2004
Publishing house: Puffin
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 242616
Studio: Puffin
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When Lonnie Collins Motion—Locomotion—was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he’s eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn’t so bad after all. Jacqueline Woodson’s novel-in-poems is humorous, heartbreaking . . . a triumph.
“Its simple yet honest poetry gives you a clear look into the feelings and emotions of Lonnie as he takes what he is given and makes poetry out of it. Locomotion gives you a point of view not often told and takes you on a journey to remember.” —VOYA
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When Lonnie was seven and his sister Lili was four, their parents were killed in a fire. Lili was a sweet little girl and was adopted by a nice family who live in a nice house across town. No one wanted an older boy, though, so Lonnie was sent to live for a long time in a group home, where he learned to be tough and careful around other boys. It was not a good place to live.
Finally a woman, Miss Edna, took Lonnie in as a foster child. He isn't adopted by her but he expects to live with her for a long time. Her own two sons are grown up, one in the army and one living upstate, and she says she learned over the years how to deal with boys.
Lonnie is now eleven years old and has a lot of feelings inside him that he doesn't know how to get out--feelings about Miss Edna and about Lili and about his parents. In school his teacher is teaching them about poetry, and Lonnie discovers that he has some talent for writing poetry and it is much easier to get his feelings down in a poem than it is to try to express himself any other way. So he throws himself into his poetry journal, which becomes the perfect outlet for him.
I liked that despite all of his hardships and his rough life, Lonnie was pretty much doing okay. He wasn't into trouble and was doing well in school and didn't become a stereotypical inner city kid with no parents. I also liked the relationships Lonnie had very first with his sister and then with Rodney.
The poetry in this story didn't always work for me, though. Poetry is always a bit disjointed, and it was sometimes hard to get a feel for what Lonnie's life was like, with so little description.
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I really enjoy the genre of poetry. Each line flows off the page. The book Love that Dog made me like the genre because I love how the word flow with the lines. The plot was very believable because a child could loose their parents and can be separated from their siblings. I would recommend this book to others because it tells a wonderful story about friendship.
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In this book Locomotion is going through a lot because he is trying to live in the same foster home as his little sister, Lili. It is also hard for him because when he writes about his parents being in the fire it makes him sad. Sometimes he gets mad because whenever Locomotion goes to visit his little sister, Lili, her foster mother acts like she doesn't want him there. I would recommend this book because it is interesting how his life style was when he was growing up.
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This book Locomotion is really like a poem book not more like a story. So if you come across this book try to read it because at very first I did like it at all. When I got to the middle, I loved the book. I love this book because it was interesting how it was told in poems. So I would recommend this book to people.
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When my English teacher told us that we were going to read Novel in verse books, our whole class groaned. But Locomotion was the book i was instantly attracted to because of the story line. Our librarian suggested certain books, and this was one of them. This fantastic book by Jacqueline Woodson would be one that i recommend to kids and adults.
The book is very flowing, the author did a great job of voice, talking like an 11-year-old African American child, living in the city without his parents or his sister. The boy (Lonnie C. Motion) finds out how to get his feelings out on paper due to a great English teacher named Ms. Marcus.
The book is short, and easy read. I really like how this book explores what a child under adoption, split from his family is like. It gives you a real look into what goes on in the society today.
I would most deffinatly reccomend this book.
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