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ISBN: 9780606409292

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From the publisher

An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. A great pick for fans of Margarita Engle and Eileen Spinelli.

Eighteen kids,
one year of poems,
one school set to close.
Two yellow bulldozers
crouched outside,
ready to eat the building
in one greedy gulp.

But look out, bulldozers.
Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class
has plans for you.
They're going to speak up
and work together
to save their school.

Families change and new friendships form as these terrific kids grow up and move on in this whimsical novel-in-verse about finding your voice and making sure others hear it.

Honors and Praise:

Winner of a Cybils Award in Poetry

An NCTE Notable Verse Novel

A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year

An ILA-CBC Children's Choice

Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children's Book Award, the Rhode Island Children's Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire)

"This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut." --School Library Journal

"Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old." --Mark Goldblatt, author of Twerp

Details

Title Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
Author Laura Shovan
Binding Prebound
Pages 272
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Turtleback Books
ISBN 9780606409292 / 0606409297
Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
Dimensions 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (19.05 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
Age range 09 to 12 years
Grade levels 4 - 7
Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Laura Shovan has been a writer since the second grade. After graduating from NYU's Dramatic Writing Program, she taught high school and worked as a freelance journalist. She is now an educational consultant for teens with learning difficulties. She edited two poetry anthologies and is the author of the Harriss Poetry prize-winning chapbook Moutain, Log, Salt, and Stone. Laura and her family live in Maryland, where she is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council. This is her first novel. Visit her online at laurashovan.com and on Twitter at @LauraShovan.

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