This book really hit close to home because I recently taught a poetry unit in my 5th grade class. The girls were thrilled and the boys hated it (at first)! My boys said the exact same thing as the boys in the novel, "Boys don't write poetry, girls do." After Jack, the main character, hears the works of great male poets, he is inspired to write in a voice he never knew he had. This is a cleverly written book that I will share next time I have a unit on poetry. I'm sure my kids will love it as much as I did :)
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