The Dog Ate My Homework

by Sara Holbrook

Book Overview

In these four collections of verse (The Dog Ate My Homework, I Never Said I Wasn't Difficult, Am I Naturally This Crazy? and Which Way to the Dragon!), Sara Holbrook deals honestly with issues facing adolescents: school, divorce, anger, violence, love, friendship, and self-esteem. Through her straight-talk style, Holbrook captures the joys, pains, and attitudes that preteens and teenagers feel and provides a message of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563976382
• ISBN13: 9781563976384
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wordsong
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Wow!

Prior to reading this book, I was not familiar with Sara Holbrook's work. My loss. Reading her poetry is such a joy! The poems in "The Dog Ate My Homework" are written from a child/teenager's point of view. They completely took me back to the thoughts and feelings I had growing up. A great addition to a personal collection or a classroom library.

The Awesome Sara Holbrook!

I am an eighth grade English teacher, and I've worked in both Florida and Massachusetts. In both places, and in other places where I have had the fortune to work with children, Sara's poetry has captured their attention and wowed them with her understanding of their age. Her "silly rhymes" make them giggle and her "I am a teenager and my life is like this" poems make them jump for joy that someone knows what it is like to be in middle school (or elementary school, or high school). I have all of her books in my classroom, and have to replace them often because they are stolen: the highest compliment a student can make to a poet. I love Sara!

A great book for any student

Sara Holbrook, who is one of my favorite poets, presents a book full of school-related poems, many of them very humorous. I seriously reccomend this and other of Sara Holbrook's works for teachers, or students age 10-15.