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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

Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices

An NCTE Notable Verse Novel

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

An ILA

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

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      Publisher: Random House USA Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/04/2018
      ISBN13: 9780553521405, 978-0553521405
      ISBN10: 0553521403

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

      Winner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices

      An NCTE Notable Verse Novel

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

      An ILA

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