When Lonnie Collins Motion "Locomotion" was seven years old, his life changed forever. Now he's eleven, and his life is about to change again. His teacher, Ms. Marcus, is showing him ways to put his jumbled feelings on paper. And suddenly, Lonnie has a whole new way to tell the world about his life, his friends, his little sister Lili, and even his foster mom, Miss Edna, who started out crabby but isn’t so bad after all. Jacqueline Woodson’s novel-in-poems is humorous, heartbreaking . . . a triumph.
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A cute, heart-warming book of verse about a young boy who has to cope with tragedy and a completely new life. Lonnie "Locomotion" Motion is a seven year old boy whose parents die in a terrible accident and leave him and his little sister in separate foster homes. His teacher Ms. Marcus encourages him to write his feelings down as poetry. It was sweet and occasionally heart breaking to see Lonnie struggle with his feelings of loss and his attempts to create a new normal. The way his poetry progressed was interesting, sad at times, funny at others and very easy to get sucked into. Definitely aimed at a younger audience but a very quick, sweet read that I'd recommend to fans of verse and YA/Juvenile lit!
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