Title: Spinning through the universe
Subtitle: a novel in poems from room 214
Description: Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fitting in, and family.

Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Helen Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the twenty-two forms will be of special interest.
Subjects: Poetry, Family life, Interpersonal relations, Schools, Fiction, Novels in verse, Children's fiction, School attendance, fiction, Stories in rhyme, Family life, fiction