Reviews

The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park

jennad's review against another edition

5.0

Such a neat question. Lots of good discussion here. Makes you think about what's truly important. I loved to see the different thought processes for the kids about what is useful or meaningful to their lives.

thenextgenlibrarian's review against another edition

3.0

If your house was on fire, what is the one thing you’d save?

lizaroo71's review against another edition

3.0

A teacher gives her students an assignment: if there were a fire, what one thing would you save? (Family and pets are already safe). The students must think about their answer and then have a discussion in class.

It’s nice to hear the conversation that ensues. After completing it, the notes indicate the book is written in verse commonly used in Korean poetry.

julialou's review against another edition

4.0

A poignant middle grade poetry collection.

kmdomboski's review against another edition

5.0

Could be used as a read aloud. To pair with activity.

remembered_reads's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

3.5

eliseofsoleanna's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 stars

Read for an upcoming teacher book club. Some of those poems got me right in the chest.

beths0103's review against another edition

5.0

A book that defies genre.

It's not a picture book.
It's not a novel.
It not a novel in verse.

And yet it's all of those things while being none of those things.

librariandest's review against another edition

3.0

I love the idea of this and I enjoyed reading it. I did *not* realize it was poetry until I got to the author's note at the end.

tammys_take's review against another edition

3.0

Cute. I liked that this book was in a Korean style verse. The illustrations were an added bonus. The shifts of perspective was a little confusing at first, since there wasn’t anything to alert the reader.