LLC Findaway World
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
3) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.