Annotations for Hate That Cat

Baker & Taylor
Jack is studying poetry again in school, and he continues to write poems reflecting his understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life.

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Baker & Taylor
Jack learns the power of the written word when he goes up against a crazy fat black cat who gives him something to write about, causing him to see and hear the world in a whole new way. 125,000 first printing.

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HARPERCOLL

Jack

Room 204--Miss Stretchberry

February 25

Today the fat black cat
up in the tree by the bus stop
dropped a nut on my head
thunk
and when I yelled at it
that fat black cat said
Murr-mee-urrr
in a
nasty
spiteful
way.

I hate that cat.

This is the story of
Jack
words
sounds
silence
teacher
and cat.

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