Rap Poems - Softcover

Orme, David; Glynn, Martin; Eccles, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330328182 ISBN 13: 9780330328180

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, 1993

Synopsis

Contains 30 up-to-date poems. The book also shows how to dub a rap poem and how to perform it. Included is a Reggae Rexercise, a brief history of rap and a dictionary of rap lingo.

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About the Author

Eva Ibbotson was born in Vienna, but when the Nazis came to power her family fled to England and she was sent to boarding school. She became a writer while bringing up her four children, and her bestselling novels have been published around the world. Her books have also won and been shortlisted for many prizes. Eva died peacefully in October 2010 at the age of eighty-five.

From Booklist

Gr. 3-7. When Hiram C. Hopgood purchases a Scottish castle, called Castle Cara, for his daughter, Helen, and has it shipped back to Texas, he has no idea that he has also acquired a coterie of ghosts that have lived in the castle for hundreds of years. But after Helen and the castle's former owner, 12-year-old orphan Alex MacBuff, who has accompanied Hopgood to America, are kidnapped, it's the resident ghosts (including Krok, a Viking warrior; Miss Spinks, a governess intent on drowning herself; Stanislaus, a toothless vampire; Flossie, a child/poltergeist; and Cyril, a hellhound) who come to the rescue. Ibbotson, the author of The Great Ghost Rescue (2002) and numerous other humorous fantasies, excels in her depiction of quirky characters, and the idea of Scottish ghosts in rural Texas adds absurdity to the convoluted, comical plot. Briticisms abound, but they should pose few problems for American readers already familiar with Harry Potter. Kay Weisman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0330328182
• ISBN 13: 9780330328180
• Binding: Paperback