Poetry in Locomotion

What a book.  Beautiful.  Beautiully read by Dion Graham, too.  Lonnie Collins Motion, nicknamed Locomotion by his mom, is a brilliantly gifted poet.  The book is made up of his poem book, that his teacher makes everyone write in at school.  Locomotion writes about the death of his parents in a house fire and his life now and all kinds of of other things.  I don't know how this didn't get the Newbery.  Oh yeah, the Newbery is usually wrong, that's right.  .  One part of the foster care story is realistic though, Lonnie and his little sister are in two different foster homes and the sister's "mother" doesn't want Lonnie.    Wonderful book.