| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 297 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The blackbird is flying -- Grade three: The box project -- Becoming Mr. Swope -- Mrs. Duncan -- Write a story, any story -- Which one is Su Jung? -- I do! I do believe in fairies! -- Hunting for stories -- The Christmas spirit -- Courage -- How to kill the parents -- Your child is wonderful -- You don't got no friends -- The little liar -- All that glitters in not gold -- Sugar plum saves the day -- Kindness and doom -- A world without story -- Grade four: The island project -- All about me -- Mr. Swope redefined -- Poetry 101 -- The animal in Miguel -- Surprise! -- The queen mother of the west -- The fantastic binomial -- The great tribulation -- The case of the missing report cards -- Le Vieja -- They go all the way down -- The island project -- Blubber Island -- Whose story is it, anyway? -- Miguel's Island -- The ludicrous girl -- The black plain -- Party island -- Grade five: The tree project -- The tree is -- Dear tree -- The park -- The middle school problem -- Max in control -- Afros, Chinos, and Skittles -- The willow tree -- How to draw a tree -- Night writing -- The McDonald's conferences -- The Stalwart boy -- Emotion recollected in tranquility -- Snow poems -- The bud lesson -- Epithalamium -- The story trees -- The mountain climber -- A spring surprise -- Who is Su Jung? -- Loose ends -- Good-bye and good luck. |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Children of immigrants -- Education (Elementary) -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Swope, Sam.
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| ISBN |
0805073345 |
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