Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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This book will be perfect to hand kids beginning 6th grade. The characters are strong, the structure of the book interesting with its multiple viewpoints, and the story interesting. The teacher is one who offers challenges rather than a standard curriculum, and the kids consistently rise to his challenges. He calls their various bluffs, requiring the mean girl to be less mean and the prankster to think a little more. Readers slowly learn about the home situations of the students, which explains much of their behavior. And then - the accident that puts Mr. Terupt in a coma. They are all undone, but they again rise to the occasion and learn how to work together to stay positive and support Terupt's ideals.
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This book will be perfect to hand kids beginning 6th grade. The characters are strong, the structure of the book interesting with its multiple viewpoints, and the story interesting. The teacher is one who offers challenges rather than a standard curriculum, and the kids consistently rise to his challenges. He calls their various bluffs, requiring the mean girl to be less mean and the prankster to think a little more. Readers slowly learn about the home situations of the students, which explains much of their behavior. And then - the accident that puts Mr. Terupt in a coma. They are all undone, but they again rise to the occasion and learn how to work together to stay positive and support Terupt's ideals.