Librarian teacher discusses children's books. Students are encouraged to contribute their own book review or short summary of fiction or nonfiction books. This blog is of interest to 3rd through 6th graders.

because of mr. terupt by Rob Buyea

I will have to get this book for our library. So many of us like Andrew Clemens' books and this has the same feel of his books. School situations. The story is told from the point of view of seven students in Mr. Terupt's 5th grade. It is his first year of teaching and he has a different way about him. The students all have unique personalities, family situations and relationships with each other. One of the interesting things Mr Terupt does is have his students go in small groups to the Collaborative Classroom to hang out with the special needs students. Mr. Terupt understands his students and what they need and they become better people because of him. I would like you to read this book so we can talk about the characters. Look for this book at the South St Paul public library.