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Friday, August 9, 2024

Unexpected Adventures in Housecleaning

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Mary Lee: I am an experienced teacher. I am the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and I have poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, and the Poetry Friday Anthologies for Middle School, Science, and Celebrations (Pomelo Books); Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Book of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15,2016, 2017-18), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes, A World Full of Poems, 10.10 Poetry Anthology, Poems to Lift You Up and Make You Smile (YDP), IMPERFECT II, Things We Eat, Two Truths and a FIB Poetry Anthology, and 40 Poems for 40 Weeks.

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