The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

Laura Shovan's engaging, big-hearted debut is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. 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. 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. Winner, Cybils Award in Poetry An NCTE Notable Verse Novels A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year ILA-CBC Choices Reading Lists, Children's Choices SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Finalist Nominated for: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Awards Wisconsin State Reading Association Children's Book Awards Rhode Island Children's Book Award Great Stone Face Book Award

Rating

4.12

Pages

227

Publisher

Wendy Lamb Books/Random House

Year

2016