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Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is a children's novel written by American author Judy Blume and published in 1972. [1] It is the first in the Fudge series and was followed by Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania, and Double Fudge (2002). [1][2] Although Otherwise Known as Sheila the ...
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill ...
The book presented the feelings and intentions of the characters clearly, but could have benefited from adding more nuance to their personalities. [2] Other reviews praised the book's humorous approach to teaching lessons about economics, [ 3 ] while noting that the plot was still driven by Jessie and Evan's sibling rivalry.
Shiloh is a Newbery Medal -winning children's novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor published in 1991. The 65th book by Naylor, it is the first in a quartet about a young boy and the title character, an abused dog. Naylor decided to write Shiloh after an emotionally taxing experience in West Virginia where she encountered an abused dog.
Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters ...
Oct. 26—Curriculum leads students to give to Humane Society By Ayanna Eckblad Fourth-grade students from Halverson Elementary School on Friday had a fun morning visiting the Freeborn County ...
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Massachusetts Children's Book Award. At Massachusetts Children's Book Award we list Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing as MCBA winner in both 1977 and 1983. The sponsor/admistrator Salem State U School of Education evidently maintains a site with some archive of past material (back to 2001) but no list of past winners. [1]