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Overview

You walk into class—
my head clears.

No kidding.
You are my aspirin.

One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring collection captures the emotional highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty and humor. With an authentic voice full of wit and insight, Girl Coming In for a Landing is just like high school: impossible to walk away from unchanged.

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Overview

You walk into class—
my head clears.

No kidding.
You are my aspirin.

One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring collection captures the emotional highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty and humor. With an authentic voice full of wit and insight, Girl Coming In for a Landing is just like high school: impossible to walk away from unchanged.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
A sequence of poems, in the voice of a sensitive preadolescent, unfold over the course of a school year on topics such as kissing games, crushes and close relationships. "This work succeeds in making reading and writing poetry more accessible to teens who may otherwise find these tasks intimidating," wrote PW. Ages 12-up. (Mar.) n Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780440419037
  • Publisher: Random House Children's Books
  • Publication date: 3/9/2004
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 134
  • Age range: 12 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.19 (w) x 7.61 (h) x 0.39 (d)

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POEMS FROM THROUGHOUT THE BOOK

ALL THIS SUMMER

All this summer when I was alone,
I'd think about what he would say and then he said it.

He did.

He'd walk with me hand in hand in the late afternoons along the sandbar of the Feather River.
He'd tell me, "You are the most important person in my life,"
and then he'd kiss my nose.

He would.

He'd pull leaves from my hair and say, "Never leave me."
But I have. I've left him.
I've come back to school,
my two feet planted firmly on the ground.

I'm a teenager now.
I'll never walk with my invisible boyfriend again.

But I remember what he said.

BACK TO SCHOOL LAST YEAR

Last year I worried about where the rooms were and all those kids.

I didn't know what kind of binder to buy (three-ring?)
or how much lunch money to bring.

Last year I got my hair cut the day before school started.
Dumb me.
It was way too short that first day.

And last year I didn't know if I should buy new jeans or if my comfortable overalls would be dorky ...
or even if anyone cared.

Last year I wasn't sure what time to set my alarm.
Last year I was scared.


BACK TO SCHOOL THIS YEAR

This year I’ve got the perfect organizer with pockets for every subject (except PE).

This year I ironed my lavender shirt three days ago and laid everything out last night.

This year I set the alarm for six forty-five:
just right.

This year I got my hair cut two weeks ago so that it is exactly the right length today.

This year I have Mr. C for science,
Mr. Barton from Tennessee for language arts

and Ms. Konigsberg for chorus.
Aga i n .

Last year I worried: Who was I? What did I know?
This year I put on glitter Chop Stick and go!


CARLO'S LAP

Laughing, tonight, after Christopher's party,
we pile into Yen-Mei Chen's stepfather's car.

"No room at the inn," I say softly to Leslie,
and even the kids in the front turn and grin.

We squeeze in.
The door slams shut.
I'm shoved on Carlo's lap!

words / stick clocks /stop blood /goes cold

The car moves.

Part of my brain still works.
It prays

never let this car ride end.

IT'S PERFECTLY CLEAR

Leslie called me "unsupportive."
She said I didn't help her make campaign posters on Friday.

Leslie called me "unsupportive."
She said she'd made it perfectly clear she needed help on Friday.

Leslie called me
“unsupportive."
She hadn't made it clear.

Leslie was a jerk on Friday.


ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT


All I can think about is kissing him.

All I can write about in notes passed to Leslie

is kissing and she replies

about kissing and more.

All I can think about is kissing him and more.

GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANING

My heart Is coming in For a landing

Carrying a suitcase packed with hope

I stuffed it'
Sat on it to snap the clasps

And as my heart dips from the cloud high and slo wly descends,

finally taxiing to the gate, someone will unload my suitcase.

I am holding its tag tightly.
I have come to reclaim it.

Taking care ...
taking it home.

From the Hardcover edition.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 13, 2008

    A Great Read!

    This book is funny, honest, and heartfelt. I read it in seventh grade and loved it, and I still love it now as a freshman in college. I can't recommend it enough for young girls, and anyone else who wants a quick, satisfying read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2005

    Great poetry read!

    A Girl Coming in For a Landing was a fun novel to read because it was written in poetry. Its about a teenage girl and her year at school. It desrcribes all the problems a girl might face as a teenager through poetry.

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