Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

What if you couldn't move on to seventh grade because of your poor grades? Would you do Extra Credit? Abby Carson decides she better get her act together so she doesn't have to repeat sixth grade. Not only does she have to do Extra Credit but she needs to get good grades from now until the end of the school year. I read this school story to the 5th graders and we enjoyed learning about Afghanistan along with Abby. The pen pal idea was the teacher's and it made me want to arrange pen pals for my students to learn about another culture. I wonder how many of Andrew Clements' readers followed Abby and wrote to someone in a foreign country.