Behind the Wheel: Driving Poems

By Janet S. Wong

Book Overview

In this collection of 36 poems (plus a new author's note at the end of the book), award-winning poet Janet Wong covers familiar territory: everything from parents as air bags ("in your face") to car... 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
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.3"
• 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.