A complex, thought-provoking, and entertaining view of middle school. Publishers Weekly Twenty kids. Twenty points of view. One rambunctious, brilliantly conceived novel that corrals the seeming chaos (cmon, TWENTY points of view!) into one effervescent story.Sixth grade is a MOST confusing time. Best friends arent friends anymore. Worst enemies suddenly want to be partners in crime. And classmates you thought you knew have all sorts of surprising stuff going on. The kids in Mrs. Herreras class are dealing with all this and morespecifically: 1. Theres a new girl who just seems to be spying on them all and scribbling things in a notebook. Maybe she IS a spy? 2. Someone is stealing Mrs. Herreras most treasured items. 3. Their old classmate, Sam, keeps showing up and no one knows whyuntil they do. Which leads to a fourth problem. But we cant tell you about that yet. The twenty kids in Mrs. Herreras classroom can, though, and they do. Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-8th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-13 years.

There are 336 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by Simon & Schuster .

Frances O Roark Dowell is the editor and co-founder of Dream/Girl, an arts magazine for girls and has been Poet in Residence at Duke University. She has had dozens of poems published in literary journals, and is the author of two previous children's novels, Dovey Coe and Where I'd Like to Be. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two sons.