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Reader reviewed by Ellen

Ronald Koertge has an amazing use of poetic form in the book Shakespeare Bats Cleanup. This book tells the story of a boy named Kevin who has to stay home from school because of an illness. This is hard for Kevin because he is so used to playing baseball everyday for his school, but because of being sick from Mononucleosis, he has very limited mobility. Kevin looks through his dad's things and finds out the amazing things that poetry can do. There are things he never knew about poetry and life that he learns, just while staying home from an illness.