A review by bibliobrandie
The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park

4.0

I loved this poetry/novel in verse that introduces readers to Sijo, A Korean verse form related to haiku. The narrator/teacher does this by posing a question to her middle school classroom: What is the one thing you'd save if there was a fire. I think this would be a good read aloud for 5th or 6th grade and then follow it with an activity where students get to answer that question for themselves through their own Sijo poem.