Love That Dog: A NovelThe Newbery Medal-winning author of Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech, brings readers a story with enormous heart. Love That Dog shows how one boy named Jack finds his voice with the help of a teacher, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog. Written as a series of free-verse poems from Jack's point of view, this novel is perfect for kids and teachers, too. Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Miss Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments—and Jack can't avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns that he does have something to say. "I guess it does |
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... Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth. Copyright © 1987, 1994 by Valerie Worth. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. “The Pasture” from The Poetry of Robert Frost edited by Edward Connerey Lathem ...
... the white chickens and why so much depends upon them. If that is a poem about the red wheelbarrow and the white chickens then any words can be a poem. You've just got to make short lines. Do you promise not to read it out loud? Do 3.
A Novel Sharon Creech. Pretend I still have that pet? Can't I make up a pet— a different one? Like a tiger? Or a hamster? A goldfish? Turtle? Snail? Worm? Flea? NOVEMBER 29 I liked those small poems we read today. 14 NOVEMBER 22.
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