Research Catalog

Title

Partly cloudy : poems of love and longing / Gary Soto.

Author

Soto, Gary

Publication

Boston : Harcourt, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Description

100 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Poet Gary Soto captures the voices of young people as they venture toward their first kiss, brood over bruised hearts, and feel the thrill of first love.

Subject

• Teenagers > Poetry
• First loves > Poetry
• Love poetry, American
• Young adult poetry, American

Genre/Form

• Love poetry, American.
• Young adult poetry, American.
• Love poetry
• Poetry
• Young adult non-fiction.
• Poésie d'amour.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Awards (note)

• A Junior Library Guild selection

Contents

A girl's tears, her songs: On the side of a bike path -- Not yet -- Composition -- Burrs & thistles -- Facts of life -- I saw what you did -- Rough hands -- Stars -- Natural talent -- Obsession -- Don't you see -- Signs -- Strategy -- Exaggeration -- Meaning what? -- Consequence -- Full price -- Jealousy -- Black books -- Barriers -- Testing you -- The big chill -- First kiss -- Anonymous tug -- Paper boat -- Fake love -- The invisible girl -- Neighborhood -- Horses -- Playing football -- Lazy Cupid For the love of dogs -- Little puppy -- Pears -- Bossy girl -- When I lost you -- Time with you -- Sparks -- Home alone, and liking it -- A boy's body, his words: Mirror -- The second button -- Open house -- Vegan for your love -- A long weekend without you -- So much alike -- Fall dance -- Country music -- Beautiful trouble -- Busted -- Tree bark -- Simple me -- A certain weakness -- The koi at the museum pond -- The birds and the bees -- Boy artist -- Rumors -- Faces -- Rationale -- A lesson for us -- Eternal love -- Danger -- Time -- Pomegranate as my heart -- Driftwood -- Getting to know you -- Imagination -- A view of heaven -- Forest of boulders -- Leaving the bookstore -- Love medicine -- Spreading love -- Mystery -- Hard work -- Iowa evening -- Playing our parts -- Out in nature -- An act of kindness.

ISBN

• 9780152063016 (hardcover) :
• 0152063013 (hardcover) :

LCCN

^^2008022267

OCLC

150389091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library