Newbery Medal Winner Sharon Creech's remarkable novel about how words can change your life.With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author Sharon Creech tells a story with enormous heart. Written as a series of free-verse poems from a young student's point of view, Love That Dog shows how one boy finds his own voice with the help of a teacher, a writer, a pencil, some yellow paper, and of course, a dog.”This is the perfect [audio] for the millions of boys who think they hate poetry.” -- USA TodaySharon Creech is the author of the Newbery Medal winner Walk Two Moons and the Newbery Honor winner The Wanderer. Her other novels include The Castle Corona, Replay, Heartbeat, Ruby Holler, Love That Dog, Bloomability, Absolutely Normal Chaos, Chasing Redbird, and Pleasing the Ghost, as well as three picture books: A Fine, Fine School; Fishing in the Air; and Who's That Baby? After spending eighteen years teaching and writing in Europe, Sharon Creech and her husband have returned to the United States to live.Scott Wolf's theatre credits include Side Man on Broadway, Far East, and Dead End at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. His movies include White Squall and The Evening Star. For six seasons he was seen as Bailey Salinger on Party of Five on Fox Television.
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This winning, accessible book is truly remarkable in that Creech lets us witness firsthand how words can open doors to the soul. And this from a boy who asks, "Why doesn't the person just / keep going if he's got / so many miles to go / before he sleeps?" (Ages 8 to 12) --Karin Snelson
Meet Jack, who tells his story with a little help from some paper, a pencil, his teacher, and a dog named Sky.Jack
Room 105 -- Miss Stretchberry
September 13
I don't want to
because boys
don't write poetry.Girls do.
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