Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt.

Scoring a goal against your own team. Copying a classmate's schoolwork. Accepting a dare to jump down the stairs . . . and getting hurt.

This engrossing poetry anthology, edited by Irene Latham and Charles Waters, explores making mistakes and learning from them. Twenty brave poets--including Linda Sue Park, Margarita Engle, Allan Wolf, David Elliott, Matt Forrest Esenwine, Lacresha Berry, George Ella Lyon, Jaime Adoff, **Vikram Madan, Kim Rogers, Douglas Florian,Tabatha Yeatts, Jorge Argueta, **Jane Yolen, Charles Waters, JaNay Brown-Wood, Irene Latham, April Halprin Wayland, **Darren Sardelli, and Naomi Shihab Nye--share real-life blunders they made as young people. Following each poem is a short prose explanation of what happened afterward. A fascinating read! **********