Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom [Paperback]

Gordon Korman (Author), Bernice Korman (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up

Sports. That's Jeremy Bloom's topic. He's not psyched about spending another year writing poetry, but maybe it won't be as bad as he thinks. He and his friends Chad and Michael join every team the school has - football, soccer, hockey, basketball, and baseball! At first, the guys are unstoppable, undefeated! But when Mrs. Stegowitz decides to become a fan, suddenly the guys are headed for a never-ending losing streak. Jeremy's glory poems ache with the agony of defeat. But surprisingly... he keeps writing. Could poetry be actually as cool as sports?

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6. At first glance, this collection of poems and narrative text seems rather slight. But there is really more here than meets the eye. The text exhibits some real moments of humor, and the poetry, all about sports, actually provides examples of many different forms, including haiku, concrete poetry, quatrains, and couplets. Jeremy and his two friends have signed up for every team possible during the new school year. Caught by last year's English teacher at registration, Jeremy is more or less forced to also sign up for a repeat of her poetry class. He agrees to enroll if he can write about sports. The book is a mix of short narrative chapters about the sports encountered by the three friends followed by five to six humorous poems. A great way to get boys reading and writing poetry.?Judith Constantinides, East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LA
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About the Author

Award-winning Gordon Korman is one of the most popular contemporary authors today, with more than forty novels for middle grade and young adults to his credit, including the best-selling Macdonald Hall series, and the critically acclaimed Everest, Island and Dive trilogies.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 92 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590255169
• ISBN-13: 978-0590255165
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,538,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #41 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators, A-Z > ( K ) > Korman, Gordon

More About the Author

Gordon Korman has written more than fifty middle-grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times #1 bestseller The 39 Clues: One False Note, The Juvie Three, Son of the Mob, Born to Rock, and Schooled. Though he didn't play football in high school, Gordon's been a lifelong fan and season ticket holder. He says, "I've always been fascinated by the 'culture of collision' in football and wanted to explore it-not just from the highlight films but from its darker side as well." Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is for anyone who enjoys to laugh, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom (Paperback)

Everyone will enjoy this collection of Jeremy Bloom's poems, not just sports fanatics, not just boys, not just kids who are a certain age. Jeremy writes poems about football, baseball, soccer, basketball, Monopoly (he claims that Monopoly is just as much a sport as football), and several other sports. This book is for anyone who enjoys to laugh, even if you can't tell a goal post from Home plate (I can't).

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars :), August 29, 2001

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Marisa (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom (Paperback)

--Last year, Jeremy Bloom, late for the first day of sixth grade on which the students pick their classes, signed up for Pottery, which was one of the last still having spots open. Unfortunately for him, he only thought it was Pottery: he had signed up for Poetry! After several incidents which may or may not have caused his teacher, Ms. Terranova ("Ms. Pterodactyl") to give him a D- on every poem he wrote, Jeremy decides in this book that writing poetry wasn't so bad (despite the D- marks!) and that he would like to do it again. Ms. Terranova, now married and Mrs. Stegowitz ("Mrs. Stegosaurus") decides to raise last years' marks to A's. --Throughout the second year of Jeremy Bloom's poetry career, Mrs. Stegowitz always shows up for a sports game - and the boys always lose that specific game! Jeremy writes about alternative sports after such events ("Take a walk on Boardwalk/Who owns it? Is it me?/It's mine, with one big red hotel/Two thousand dollars' fee!) with absolutely hilarious results. --Marisa