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Shovan, Laura
2 Reviews
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4-6
Sixth-grade wrestling partners Lev and Mikayla (Mickey) each face challenges at home and school, but both are determined to win a state title. Brief chapters alternate between the unlikely boy-girl friends; Mickey is a particularly strong female role model, but both characters are likable. Although (accessible) wrestling vernacular abounds, this is a story of family and friendship as much as it is a sports novel.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute
(2)
4-6
Eighteen students will be in Ms. Hill's last fifth-grade class, before bulldozers destroy Emerson Elementary to make room for a grocery store. The kids in her racially diverse classroom voice their opinions about their beloved school's closing through poems in a range of styles. The poems are easy to read, in authentic-sounding language capturing the poets' personalities. A helpful guide to poetic forms is appended.
Reviewer: Sarah Berman
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March, 2016
2 reviews
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