Jack noticed his dad coming home before hearing one of the kids warn everyone about an oncoming car. The story begins with Sky playing with the neighborhood kids on the street. Jack’s first typed poem tells the tragic story he withheld for the whole book.
Jack asks Miss Stretchberry to teach him how to type his own poems. Jack is elated at the thought of meeting his favorite poet, but Miss Stretchberry tempers his expectations by informing him of the publishing process. Miss Stretchberry encourages Jack to write Myers a letter. Upon learning that Myers is a living poet, Jack asks Miss Stretchberry if they could invite him to visit. He doesn’t disclose the poem to readers until the book’s final page. Jack likes the idea but doesn’t want his poem posted. Miss Stretchberry quells his fears and offers to include a caption denoting the poem’s inspiration. He encloses the poem in an envelope as he doesn’t want to anger Myers by plagiarizing. Jack writes a secret poem that borrows Myers’s phrases and structure. Jack’s understanding of poetry grows upon discovering Walter Dean Myers, the poet behind “Love That Boy.” Jack sneaks one of Myers’s books home so that he can copy the poem and hang it on the ceiling above his bed. Jack asks Miss Stretchberry to encourage other anonymous poets to share their names. When he finally comes forward, his classmates compliment him. Still, Jack fears that his writing isn’t real poetry. Jack’s classmates enjoy his anonymous poems about Sky’s adoption and how he used to play. As the class reads more famous poems, Jack starts to appreciate elements of poetry, growing more comfortable with his own reading and writing. Jack reveals that he used to have a pet-a yellow dog named Sky-but he rarely speaks of him in detail. She asks Jack to write about a pet, but he claims to not own one. Though reluctant, Jack allows Miss Stretchberry to post them on the class board, albeit anonymously.
Nevertheless, he begins incorporating new phrases and structure in his journal. He doesn’t understand poems-nor what makes them poetry-and dislikes his own work. Urn:oclc:778948106 Republisher_date 20120806031817 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120804075400 Scanner, a student in Miss Stretchberry’s class, initially spurns her writing prompts.
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