Tearing down the playground
Subtitle: neighborhood stories, poems, and photographs : a Telling Room anthology
Publisher: The Telling Room
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Portland, Maine]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9781934866108; 9780972941051
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Creative writing; Education (Secondary); Secondary Education; Authorship; Personal narratives; Students
Description: The story of a small boy's epic journey of escape from the dangers of bombs, war and predators--walking by night from East Africa and eventually arriving in Southern Maine.
Notes: A collection of works from more than thirty Portland, Maine middle and high school students. With the help of the Telling Room writers, artists, and teachers, they spent months documenting and capturing their own versions of Portland through writing, poetry, photographs, songs, performances, and videos.
Table of contents: title: Our Streets: The fence; title: Wolf is my nickname; title: Sagmore, no more; title: Street heat; title: Fenway, outside and away; title: Garissa, Portland; title: Untitled; title: Bottlejacking. Our Neighbors: Just to be here; title: Carroll the caregiver; title: Home gym; title: Work study; title: Moving days; title: Once more a distant place; title: Shedding my skin; title: The bump. Our Photos. Our Haunts: Wintertime wharves; title: Bamboo playground; title: Up the hill; title: The one court; title: Murder on the pier; title: Light blue; title: The table.