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Behind the Wheel : Driving Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780689825316

  • ISBN10:

    0689825315

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry

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Summary

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 metaphor for life. Through thirty-six poems that range in subject from passing the written driver's test and borrowing a car, to parallel parking and being pulled over by a cop, to car accidents and parents' anxieties, the poet succeeds in touching on all the subjects of concern to young people -- love, death, hopes and dreams.Contemporary, honest, and direct, these poems offer a fresh approach to a subject of deep interest to today's young people.

Table of Contents

Contents

Ask a Friend

Behind the Wheel

Crash

Daddy and Shin

Down the Narrow

Grandmother's Car

Hard on the Gas

Hitchhiker

Hitchhiker 2

Insurance

Insurance for Teenage Drivers:
A New Plan

Jump-Start

Knuckles

Lessons in Braking

Likes of Us

Need to Read

Neighbors

OK

One Hand on the Wheel

ILMN444

OOXXOXO

Plain and Simple

Prisoner

Rest Stop

Restraint

Send Me a Signal

Short Sighted

Slow on the Curve

Speed Limit

Stuff

Three-Way Stop

Together

Wait Till When

When a Cop Stops You

You Have Got To

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Excerpts

Behind the Wheel

Forget kindergarten,

sharing.

Everything you need to know

you learn right here

behind the wheel.

Watch out for the other guy.

Keep your eye on your rear.

Thank the old lady who lets you in.

Don't steal someone else's spot.

When you rush to park and end up hopeless, crooked --

just start over.

Copyright © 1999 by Janet S. Wong

Insurance

You need insurance.

You need insurance.

You need insurance.

Can I say it enough?

You're careful.

You're careful.

I know you're careful.

I don't care

how careful you are.

It's those other crazy cars.

What do you do when

a Porsche cuts in front

and you slam on the brakes

(which were never that good),

buckle his back,

buckle your hood,

and the guy gets out

in a fancy suit

and he's fuming mad

and you're madder yet --

The nerve of the jerk!

You're ready to fight

and he whips out his card.

A lawyer.

Oh no.

And the veins in his neck

are starting to show --

You need insurance.

You need insurance.

You need insurance.

Got it?

Copyright © 1999 by Janet S. Wong


Excerpted from Behind the Wheel by Janet S. Wong
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