Monroe Free Library

A collection of poems celebrating the good and bad things about friendship, giving, loneliness, and love, by such authors as Myra Cohn Livingston, John Ciardi, and Gwendolyn Brooks.

"The second full-length poetry collection from the ... author"--Back cover.

In It's Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers, Sue Walker imagines a friendship and conversation with McCullers as they share memories of two women growing up in the Deep South, McCullers in Georgia and Walker in Alabama. The past becomes the present in this poem that ranges from love and war to sickness and health, fudge and friendship. Its many allusions to the life and works of Carson McCullers make it a kind of poetic biography....

A collection of poetry and art by children describing their feelings about friendship.

An illustrated poem about friendship and togetherness.

Based on tears of sadness and tears of joy, a collection of brutality honest teenage anxieties.

A collection of humorous poems about the narrator's four friends, one of whom is the obnoxious Harvey.

A poetic story inspired by Psalm 121. Jordan lives in fear of Tanya, the class bully. But Tanya has worries of her own, no matter how much she tries to ignore them. It seems impossible that Jordan and Tanya could be anything other than enemies, but the Lord is watching over them, guiding each of them along a path that might just help them to understand one another.