{"product_id":"the-last-fifth-grade-of-emerson-elementary-1","title":"The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEighteen kids,\u003cbr\u003eone year of poems,\u003cbr\u003eone school set to close.\u003cbr\u003eTwo yellow bulldozers\u003cbr\u003ecrouched outside,\u003cbr\u003eready to eat the building\u003cbr\u003ein one greedy gulp.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBut look out, bulldozers.\u003cbr\u003eMs. Hill’s fifth-grade class\u003cbr\u003ehas plans for you.\u003cbr\u003eThey’re going to speak up \u003cbr\u003eand work together\u003cbr\u003eto save their school.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamilies 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonors and Praise:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of a Cybils Award in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn NCTE Notable Verse Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ILA-CBC Children’s Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award, the Wisconsin State Reading Association Children’s Book Award, the Rhode Island Children’s Book Award, and the Great Stone Face Award (New Hampshire), Lectio Book Award Master List \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This gently evocative study of change in all its glory and terror would make a terrific read-aloud or introduction to a poetry unit. A most impressive debut.” —\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sure to inspire the poet in all of us, young and old.” —Mark Goldblatt, author of \u003ci\u003eTwerp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUATB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47614986092799,"sku":"*R0011002*","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0487\/5550\/7364\/files\/1404903482385_5b850a1a-5618-4008-b299-e8a0311c2195.jpg?v=1764621574","url":"https:\/\/shop.onceuponatimebooks.com\/products\/the-last-fifth-grade-of-emerson-elementary-1","provider":"Once Upon a Time Books AR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}