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  • “Rhythm in My Head:” an interview with Ann E. Burg

    Since she was about four years old, Ann E. Burg, a middle child of four siblings, was walking around, “writing poems in [her] head.”                Michael fights, fights, fights                                                                         He fights for his rights               When he wins, he grins . . . Ann’s mother  and  father always had classical music playing on the radio,…

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  • “All The Broken Pieces” by Ann E. Burg

    Scholastic 2010 Another great find on my hunt for the best contemporary historical fiction, this sparse novel in verse must be what they mean when they describe something as a “deeply felt” work. It is a simple story of a 10-year-old Vietnamese boy with a good arm for baseball who had been adopted into an…

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