Girl Coming in for a Landing by April Halprin Wayland

book trailer -- a perfect award-winning fast-paced summer read for teens and tweens~ One girl. One school year. All poems. From friends to first dates, school dances to family fights, this inspiring book captures the highs and lows of teen life with refreshing honesty and humor. Funny, poignant, and completely real, GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING is just like high school: impossible to walk away from unchanged.

It's a novel in poems illustrated by Elaine Clayton from Knopf...
* winner of the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry
* named by the College of Education and the University Libraries at Penn State and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book a Lee Bennett Hopkins Honor Book for Children's Poetry
* a Junior Library Guild Selection
* nominated as one of the Best Books For Young Adults by the American Library Association
* nominated for the ALA's 2003 Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers
* #2 Kidzworld's Top Reads
* and now a Dell Yearling paperback

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[HeyyJude714]

This is one of my ALL TIME favorite books, oh my goodness it's so brilliant... consider this an URGENT recommendation!!!

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[AprilHalprinWayland]

wow...thanks so much! : )

[dvoraswickle]

this is a great way to bring a book into the light, hope I figure out how to do this. dvora swickle

[roseglasses]

Where can I get this book? It sounds perfect for my daughter!