Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir.”There was a slight delay in joining the team while I learned to swim in water deeper than six inches. But then I traded muddy ponds for cement swimming pools in schools and parks all over the city, tadpoling backstroking, butterflying, freestyling until my body leaned, gleamed, hardened into a core of speed with a snaggletoothed grin.earthbound, "directionally challenged," "practice," "cemetary girl," and "driven" from SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson, copyright © 2019 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Used by permission of Viking Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.