Table of Contents ALSO BY JACQUELINE WOODSON Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Epigraph POEM BOOK ROOF LINE BREAK POEM MEMORY MAMA LILI FIRST COMMERCIAL BREAK HAIKU GROUP HOME BEFORE MISS EDNA'S HOUSE HALLOWEEN POEM PARENTS POEM SONNET POEM HOW I GOT MY NAME DESCRIBE SOMEBODY EPISTLE POEM ROOF POEM II ME, ERIC, LAMONT & ANGEL FAILING NEW BOY DECEMBER 9 LIST POEM LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN HALSEY STREET PARK PIGEON SOMETIMES POEM WAR POEM GEORGIA NEW BOY POEM II TUESDAY VISITING JUST NOTHING POEM GOD POEM ALL OF A SUDDEN, THE POEM HEY DOG OCCASIONAL POEM HAIKU POEM LATENYA POETRY POEM ERIC POEM LAMONT HIP HOP RULES THE WORLD PHOTOGRAPHS NEW BOY POEM III HAPPINESS POEM BIRTH LILI'S NEW MAMA'S HOUSE CHURCH NEW BOY POEM IV TEACHER OF THE YEAR EASTER SUNDAY RODNEY EPITAPH POEM FIREFLY THE FIRE ALMOST SUMMER SKY CLYDE POEM I: DOWN SOUTH FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL DEAR GOD LATENYA II JUNE Acknowledgements Discussion Questions An Exciting Preview of : Brown Girl Dreaming An Exciting Preview of : Peace, Locomotion MAMA Some days, like today and yesterday and probably tomorrow--all my missing gets jumbled up inside of me. You know honeysuckle talc powder? Mama used to smell like that. She told me honeysuckle's really a flower but all I know is the powder that smells like Mama. Sometimes when the missing gets real bad I go to the drugstore and before the guard starts following me around like I'm gonna steal something I go to the cosmetics lady and ask her if she has it.... ALSO BY JACQUELINE WOODSON After Tupac and D Foster Behind You Beneath a Meth Moon Between Madison and Palmetto Brown Girl Dreaming The Dear One Feathers From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun The House You Pass on the Way Hush I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This If You Come Softly Last Summer with Maizon Lena Maizon at Blue Hill Miracle's Boys Peace, Locomotion SPEAK Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Registered Offices: Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in the United States of America by G. P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2003 Published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2004 Copyright © Jacqueline Woodson, 2003 Excerpted from Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
