Title: Love That Dog
Author: Sharon Creech
Illustrator: None
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Poetry Chapter Book
Theme: Try something because you never know when you will like it
Characters: Jack, Sky, Miss Stretchberry, Walter Dean Myers, Jack’s Dad
Awards: Christopher, Mitten, and Claudia Lewis Poetry Award
Date of Publication: 2001
Publication Company: Harper Collins Publishers
Summary: Jack a young student who comes to love poetry through his personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him such as Walter Dean Myers poem Love That boy. Jack surprised himself by writing his own poem that was inspired by Myers poem.
Use in Classroom: This novel could be used in a middle school classroom to help students write and/or inspired their own poems.
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