Read the excerpt from "Shout: A Poetry Memoir.”Didn’t care much about winning, but I hated to come in last, my sweet spot was lane seven for long, slow miles of laps punctuated by flip turns boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.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.