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The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary

by Laura Shovan



"Don't it always seem to you that the grown-ups never ask if we care? They're gonna pave our school, put up a grocery store."

About the Book:


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.





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