The Last Fifth Grade Of Emerson Elementary

An award-winning, big-hearted time capsule of one classÆs 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. HillÆs fifth-grade class has plans for you. TheyÆre 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 Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices An NCTE Notable Verse Novel A Bank Street College of Education Best ChildrenÆs Book of the Year An ILA-CBC ChildrenÆs Choice Nominated for the Pennsylvania Young ReaderÆs Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association ChildrenÆs Book Award, the Rhode Island ChildrenÆs Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List ôThis 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.ö ùSchool Library Journal ôSure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.ö ùMark Goldblatt, author of Twerp

• | Author: Laura Shovan
• | Publisher: Yearling
• | Publication Date: Apr 10, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Juvenile Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0553521403
• | ISBN-13: 9780553521405