Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem

<b>Metaphor alert! An ode to a certain pig kicks off one wild school day in Kate DiCamillo&#146;s latest stop on Deckawoo Drive.</b><br><br>Stella Endicott loves her teacher Miss Liliana and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson the pig who lives next door &#151; a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom Stella's irritating classmate insists that Stella&#146;s poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom Miss Liliana banishes them to the principal&#146;s office. Will the two of them find a way to turn this opposite-of-a-poem day around? In the newest spirited outing in the Deckawoo Drive series by Kate DiCamillo anything <i>is</i> possible &#151; even a friendship with a boy deemed to be (metaphorically speaking) an overblown balloon.