The found poetry appears both as photographs of the pages of books Kevin has defaced and helpful transcriptions in a handwriting font teachers should be prepared with a book they are willing to cut up so that readers can try their hand at Kevin’s poetic style. Little, his brother Paul, and Petey’s bandmates makes Kevin’s transformation seem natural, motivated by real, incremental successes. Likewise, these students might not have as much academic support or time for homework at home. His struggles with his brother Petey create credible cause for his bullying behavior alternately, the support of Mrs. While The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan would be a great choice for most fifth graders, I think Words With Wings and Garveys Choice by Nikki Grimes or Rhyme Schemer by KA Holt would be better for these students to relate to. Holt’s free verse and found poems create a voice for Kevin that reveals the anger and pain beneath his bravado. Little, the librarian, discovers Kevin’s secret and his talent, and soon he finds there’s more satisfaction in wrestling with words than there is pummeling his peers. Then predator becomes prey: Robin threatens to expose Kevin unless he creates more of his cool attack poems, hated by teachers but loved by the kids, and gives Robin credit for them. That all changes when Robin, one of his former victims, finds his poetry notebook. He pays it forward, too, picking on kids who are easy prey and ripping pages out of old library books and transforming them into found poems that attack teachers. Holt is the author of RHYME SCHEMER, an NYC Reads 365 selection, as well as several books in verse for young readers. The youngest of five boys in his family, Kevin knows what it’s like to be bullied.
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