Dakos, Kalli.

Put your eyes up here, and other school poems / by Kalli Dakos ; illustrated by G. Brian Karas. - 1st ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2003. - 63 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Introducing a new me -- Give me normal -- Ode to my stress ball -- The hand collection -- Why we're sitting at our desks wearing raincoats and holding umbrellas -- Before they killed her -- A special school lunch -- Sleeping beside a stegosaurus on an overnight class trip to the museum -- In color -- The art gallery on Penny's back -- Special eyeballs -- Why the frog in our class is purple -- Worried about being worried -- Our teacher's earrings -- I don't belive in ghosts -- When they weren't ghosts -- Ghosts in love -- Sometimes I am a ghost -- The bell that cannot ring is ringing -- When the librarian reads to us -- My underwear -- A cemetery for pencils -- Excerpts from dead pencils -- Your resting place -- Squished-up pencil -- Jaws -- The warm-up test before the test -- Put your eyes up here -- It's snowing a trillion tiny toys -- Ms. Roys's poem about the snow -- You melt too fast -- Children's poems about the snow -- A pillow fight -- Not a single sound -- A popsicle -- An awesome sight -- Delicious -- The hundredth day -- The band-aid collection -- Bugs bunny band-aid -- The magic wand -- Abracadabra -- What will I do? -- The shadow by the classroom wall -- Don't go near it -- The hand that shook the author's hand -- A gift for Ms. Roys -- Fingernails on a stick -- A good-bye note to Ms. Roys -- Forevermore.

A collection of humorous and poignant poems chronicling the school year in Ms. Roy's fourth grade class.

ISBN: 0689811179

LCCN: 2001020543

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Fourth grade (Education)--Poetry.
Primary school teachers--Poetry.
School children--Poetry.
Children's poetry, American.
Teacher-student relationships--Poetry.
Teachers--Poetry.
Students--Poetry.
Schools--Poetry.
American poetry.

LC Class. No.: PS3554.A414 / P88 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.54