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Love that dog

A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.

Main Author: Creech, Sharon.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, 2001.
Subjects:
Poetry > Juvenile fiction.
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
Summary: A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
Physical Description: 86 pages
Awards: Bookseller's Choice, 2002.
Young Reader's Choice Award Nominee, 2004.
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award Nominee, 2004.
Nene Award Recommended, 2007.
Sasquatch Award Nominee, 2004.
Great Stone Face Book Award, 2002.
Land of Enchantment Book Award, 2003.
Children's Book Committee Award, 2002.
ISBN: 9780060292874
0060292873
9780060292898
006029289X
9780064409599
0064409597
Author Notes: Sharon Creech was on born July 29, 1945 in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. She was in college when she took literature and writing courses and became intrigued by story-telling. Later, she was a teacher (high school English and writing) in England and in Switzerland.

Her novel Walk Two Moons received in 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal. In 2007, Heartbeat was a finalist in the Junior Division (4th to 6th grades) of the Young Reader's Choice Awards, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Library Association. She has written over 15 fiction novels for young readers.

She is married to Lyle Rigg, who is the headmaster of The Pennington School in Pennington, New Jersey, and have two grown children, Rob and Karin.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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