The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Name: The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura Shovan
ISBN: 9781501928406

Author: Laura Shovan

Narrator: Rachel Botchan, Jonathan Todd Ross, Jessica Almasy, Kevin R. Free, Cherise Boothe, Stina Nielsen, Jill Frutkin, Ramón de Ocampo

Unabridged: 3 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/12/2016

Categories: Children's Fiction, Regional Stories

Synopsis

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. Laura Shovan's engaging novel is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. The students grow up and move on in this big-hearted debut about finding your voice and making sure others hear it.

About Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan is the author, with Saadia Faruqi, of A Place at the Table, a Sydney Taylor Notable book. Her debut middle-grade novel, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, was a NCTE 2017 Notable Verse Novel, a Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the year, and won a Cybils Award for poetry, among other recognition. Her second children's novel, Takedown, published recently and her novels sit on over half a dozen state reading lists. She lives with her family in Maryland, where she is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brooks

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. There comes a time in every reader's life when they must get A certain novel which by definition does not fit Inside their comfy world of what they typically do read, But manages somehow to turn into a book they need. I will not lie, the rh......more

Goodreads review by Peter

This was such an amazing elementary school book. I wish I had read it years ago with my mom. So endearing. Check out my full review on my booktube channel at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

I love novels in verse, and this one offered such a wide array of poetic form that it was truly impressive. The reader can't help but follow each student's story with interest as they face the dilemma that their school may shut down forever--a truly frightening prospect for students of any age! Perf......more

Goodreads review by Abby

What a wonderful book! As others have said, all eighteen characters are phenomenal, and it's pretty much impossible to choose a favorite. Ms. Hill's class is extremely diverse in every sense of the word; there are students who speak different languages, who follow different religions, who come from......more