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Sir Galahad, Mr. Longfellow and Me

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By Betty F. Horvath
Publisher Simon Schuster Children's Publishing - (Atheneum)
Sir Galahad, Mr. Longfellow and Me
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When Emily announces that she wants to do something special and important this school year, and her new teacher Mr. Van (a man not usual in Missouri in 1937) asks how she hopes to do this, Emily says she writes poetry. She doesnt, but to back up her words, she must. And so begins a year in which Emily converts what she knows and sometimes what she doesnt know into the poems Mr. Van keeps demanding from her. It is a year of learning about life, and discovering both the pains and joys of creation.

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144 pages144 pages
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