Ramon De Ocampo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Description
Virgil feels out of place in his crazy-about-sports family. Valencia is deaf, smart, and loves everything about nature. Kaori is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister, Gen, is always following her around. And Chet wishes the weird kids would just stop being so different so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren't friends. But when Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well, Kaori, Gen, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
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Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...