Behind the Wheel: Driving Poems

by Janet S. Wong

Book Overview

Forget kindergarten,sharing.Everything you need to knowyou learn right herebehind the wheel.So begins the title poem of this collection for young adults in which Janet S. Wong looks at driving as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689825315
• ISBN13: 9780689825316
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Worthwhile book of poetry

If I hadn't known anything of Janet Wong, I would never have noticed this book based on the title. In fact, people who saw me reading it thought I must be really bored to pick it up. Don't be fooled! It's worth the time and money to check it out. Because the poems are simple and real, I use them in my classroom with 5th and 6th graders.

For every mother of a teenage driver

Janet Wong uses driving as a metaphor for growing up. As the mother of a 16-year-old son with two moving violations and two accidents under his belt already, the collection made me laugh and cry.

A SMOOTHE RIDE!

This book is the perfect driver's ed graduation gift. It will speak directly to teens who are finally getting that ticket to freedom: the driver's liscense! It's funny, touching and thought provoking - a smoothe ride down a fascinating highway.