The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

by Laura Shovan

227 pages· 2016· ISBN 9780553521
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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

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