Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
I don’t want to
Because boys
Don’t write poetry.
Girls do.
A young student, Jack, comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him and surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem about his beloved dog.
Because boys
Don’t write poetry.
Girls do.
A young student, Jack, comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him and surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem about his beloved dog.
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Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
Once again, Jack works on a poetry journal for Miss Stretchberry, now his fifth-grade teacher. Try as he might to hold them off, the lines of Miss Stretchberry’s poems open a space in his heart just big enough to allow affection for a small black kitten, dotted with white, to find its way in.
Diamond Willow by Helen Frost
There’s
more to me than
most people
see.
Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents’ house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it’s just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again.
more to me than
most people
see.
Twelve-year-old Willow would rather blend in than stick out. But she still wants to be seen for who she is. She wants her parents to notice that she is growing up. She wants her best friend to like her better than she likes a certain boy. She wants, more than anything, to mush the dogs out to her grandparents’ house, by herself, with Roxy in the lead. But sometimes when it’s just you, one mistake can have frightening consequences . . . And when Willow stumbles, it takes a surprising group of friends to help her make things right again.