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For Your Eyes Only!
(Hardcover, 1997)
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Author: Joanne Rocklin
Illustrated by: Mark Todd
The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, f...
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0590674471
ISBN-13: 9780590674478
Apr 1997
Publisher: Scholastic
Grade:
From 4 to 6
Language: English |
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Synopsis
The entries in the journals of two sixth grade students reveal much about their personal feelings, family lives, and a growing interest in poetry sparked by their new substitute teacher.
| Size | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 11.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Welcome to our class, Mr. Moffat!"
Industry Reviews
A whole new genre of books seems to have been born the day teachers started asking students to keep journals; the bland use of this journal format stamps Rocklin's (Sonia Begonia) novel with a formulaic feel. Here a substitute teacher, Mr. Moffat, inspires a sixth grade class with the poems he copies every Monday onto the chalkboard. Lucy, an eager student, fills her notebook with reactions to the poems, elliptically describes her crush on Mr. Moffat and shares her concerns about shifting friendships. In his notebook, Andy, an antisocial troublemaker, scribbles pictures of fighter planes, rarely putting down any words. Both students eventually reveal deep secrets, occasionally turning their journals into soap-opera-ish diaries ("Thursday, April 26: Someone is hurting my mother and me"). Mr. Moffat's poetry selections superbly chosen works by Langston Hughes, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Octavio Paz and others open each chapter and foreshadow plot developments. However moving the poems, the total effect is disjointed, and the overly neat and predictable resolutions of Lucy's and Andy's problems seem just as tired as the format. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)
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Gr 4-6 An unusual novel set in modern-day Los Angeles. When Mr. Moffat takes over as a long-term substitute for a sixth-grade teacher out on sick leave, he gives notebooks to the class and encourages the students to write about anything they choose. He also copies a poem by a well-known contemporary poet onto the chalkboard every Monday. The novel consists of the chalkboard poems and the students' writings and artwork. The excerpts are primarily provided by Lucy and Andy, who, as the story unfolds, learn to express themselves in a variety of ways and to look within themselves and beyond the surface of their world. Lucy learns to write poetry, to find true friendship, and to accept her mother's divorced state. Andy, who at first draws only weapons and negative images of classmates, finds a way past his anger when he takes interest in a flock of wild ducks that moves into his apartment complex's swimming pool; eventually he is able to ask for help with an abusive home situation. The journals move the plot quickly along and express a range of emotions. The entries adeptly show how the characters grow emotionally as well as artistically; the writing and situations are realistic and believable. Darcy Schild, Schwegler Elementary School, Lawrence, KS
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