# Dear Mrs. LaRue

**Author:** Mark Teague
**Grade range:** Grades 3–5
**Age range:** 8–10
**First published:** 2002
**Page count:** 32
**Genre:** Humor
**ISBN-13:** `9780439206631`
**ISBN-10:** `0439206634`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/dear-mrs-larue
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Gertrude LaRue receives typewritten and paw-written letters from her dog Ike, entreating her to let him leave the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy and come back home.

## Themes

- training
- humorous stories
- letters
- pets

## Where this book is assigned

### Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Louisiana Readers' Choice Awards), Grades 3-5 & Grades 6-8 divisions

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