Though Jack worries these poems are too sad to share, sharing them with his class helps Jack process his grief. Taking inspiration from the poems he reads in class, Jack writes his own poems that tell the story of adopting a dog named Sky-and Sky’s tragic death when a blue car hits him. It’s also a huge moment for him when Miss Stretchberry introduces him to Walter Dean Myers’s poems. It’s not until Miss Stretchberry begins reading poems that speak to Jack’s lived experience or that Jack finds funny that Jack’s confidence begins to grow.
When Miss Stretchberry introduces poems that Jack doesn’t like or understand, Jack picks apart why the poems are either nonsensical or are barely poems at all. He begins the novel disinterested in poetry and with no confidence in his own ability to write poetry, but over the course of the school year, Jack learns to love poetry and take pride in the poems he writes.
The protagonist of the novel, Jack is a student in Miss Stretchberry’s class.
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