Sara Holbrook

Sara Holbrook delivers the goods on teaching poetry in the schools and on growing up woman...in essays and poems.

Isn't She Ladylike?

World War II "is over, but the threat of communism and the Cold War loom over the United States. In Detroit, Michigan, twelve-year-old Marjorie Campbell struggles with the ups and downs of family life, dealing with her veteran father's unpredictable outbursts, keeping her mother's stash of banned library books a secret, and getting along with her new older 'brother,' the teenager her family took in after his veteran father's death"--Amazon.co

Detroit, 1954

The Enemy

Michael Salinger

Next-generation lessons for today’s student writers These 20 high-energy projectable lessons for grades 4-8 harness the brevity and potency of poetry for teaching the intricate skills behind writing well in any subject.

20 Projectable Lessons for Building Literacy Across Content Areas

High-Impact Writing Clinics

In Practical Poetry, Sara Holbrook shows you how the precise language and keen observations of poems can be used as nuts-and-bolts tools for addressing content and language standards in four key subject areas.

Sara Holbrook

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