Author: Hope Anita Smith
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Title: Keeping the Night Watch
Genre: juvenile poetry
Sub genre: family/fathers
Theme: fiction
Primary and secondary characters: C.J., Daddy, Zuri, Byron
Date: 2008
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Publisher Company: Henry Holt and Company
Brief summary on how to use for students: This book can be used by students on learning about how you can regain a person’s trust. You can use this in the classroom and students can relate if they come from a broken home. The book can show that there are other students out there that are dealing with the same situation.
Summary: This book is a collection of poems that follow through two seasons fall and spring. The poems show the feelings of a young boy whose father abandons the family and comes back. He does not trust his father and does not want to be around him. He has the feelings of anger, hope, abandonment and fear.
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