#tbt: Love That Dog by Sharon Creech

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. 112 p. HarperCollins Publisher, July, 2001. 9780060292873.

#tbt features Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Fifth grader Jack is a student in Ms. Stretchberry's class and he is mad! It seems Ms. Stretchberry is doing a year-long poetry unit with her students and Jack needs to write in a poetry journal all year! Boys don't write poetry. Girls do! Readers watch as Jack grows as a poet and will most likely cry when Jack writes his, "Love That Dog" poem. Love That Dog was published in 2001 and has a sequel called, Hate That Cat.