Hess, Karen. Brooklyn Bridge. New York: Fiewel and Friends, 2008.
This novel starts out for seeming to be a certain kind of book–and continued to seem to be that for a very long time; but as it approaches its conclusion, it suddenly changes into quite a different kind of book, in a way that makes an [...]
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Hesse, Karen. Witness. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
The text consists of a series of poems in free verse, each in the voice of one of eleven characters who all live in a small town in Vermont in the twenties. The free verse here seems a little less free of verse than that in a number of [...]
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