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This is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness
by Joyce Sidman

Mrs. Merz assigns her sixth-grade students to write poems of apology, and what emerges is a surprising array of emotions, poetic forms, and subjects from dead pets and biting hamsters to angry siblings and betrayal of trust.

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