A review by librarianinthewoods
Catching a Storyfish by Janice N. Harrington

4.0

4.5. I love books written in verse. And I loved this book about a girl who moves up North from Alabama and stands out for her accent. A sweet story about finding our voice and our stories. About family and friendships. The author uses ten different types of poem structures throughout the book which I didn’t realize until the ending notes. I’ll read this again. You can fall into the words and rhythm.

New Girl Blues

I got the New-Girl blues.
I got those back-to-school and don’t-want-to,
do-I-have-to-Mama? do-I-have-to? blues.

Blues in my thinking, blues
in my walk. Blue and lonely lonely
because of my New-Girl talk.

I got the New-Girl,
don’t-want-to-go,
don’t-make-me-go blues.