Bronx Masquerade

I love Nikki Grimes and this one did NOT disappoint. It’s a cute book of short stories written as free verse poems. Highly recommend it’s a great story/message......more

Some of the poetry was good, but everything else was just terrible. The whole scenario seemed incredibly unlikely, and there characters didn't really have a lot of depth. And please, SHUT UP TYRONE. His comments annoyed me so much. They were written way too simple and he just restated the obvious. I......more

Here's the formula: 1. A 2-5 page inner monologue by a character 2. A 1-2 page poem by the character 3. A one paragraph response by Tyrone Here's how good it is: 1. The inner monologues vary from cringey to pretty good. Grimes does noticeably better on female characters than on male characters, and bette......more

"Bronx Masquerade" is a book about a group of teenages attending high school in the Bronx. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different student, concluding with a poem that the student wrote. These students in Mr. Ward's English class are about of an evoluationary process in classroom st......more

I loved everything about this book; the characters were all so funny yet so sincere and I loved hearing their stories. I wonder if at my school, if we did poetry writing like this, what the result would be. In the book it brought everyone together, which we need in this tiny town of Cartersville. I......more