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Buried Alive: The Elements of Love

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Buried Alive: The Elements of Love
Hardcover first edition
AuthorRalph Fletcher
PublisherAtheneum
Publication date
April 1996
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages46
ISBN978-0689805936
OCLC32779111
811/.54 20
LC ClassPS3556.L523 B87 1996

Buried Alive: The Elements of Love is a young adult book of poetry by Ralph Fletcher, with photographs by Andrew Moore. It was first published in 1996.

Summary

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This book is a collection thirty six free verse poems about teenage love divided into four elements: earth, water, air, and fire.[1]

Reception

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Marjorie Lewis in her review for School Library Journal said that "the poetry, the inviting pages, the metaphor of the arrangement, the romantic situations and the mysterious photo-collages is, in its complexity, a step above the works of Mel Glenn and Gary Soto.[2] Joan B. Elliott and Mary M. Dupuis recommended this book for use in the classroom in their book Young Adult Literature in the Classroom.[3]

Notes

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  1. ^ Chance, Rosemary (November–December 1996). "Not-to-be-missed poetry for young adults". Emergency Librarian. 24 (2): 59. ISSN 0315-8888.
  2. ^ Lewis, Marjorie (May 1996). "Junior high up: Nonfiction". School Library Journal. 42 (5): 138. ISSN 0362-8930.
  3. ^ Dupuis, Mary M.; Joan Elliott (2002). Young adult literature in the classroom: reading it, teaching it, loving it. [Newark, Del.]: International Reading Association. pp. 139. ISBN 0-87207-173-1. buried alive ralph fletcher.
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