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Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade

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By Esm Raji Codell
Publisher Hyperion Books for Children
Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: Hard-to-Swallow Stories from Fifth Grade
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Like every fifth grader, Esm Raji Codell spent her days within the small world of school, neighborhood, and family. But this small world provides rich material for the often hilarious, always engrossing stories and vignettes in this book. Esm tells us about the night she and her mother became egg vigilantes against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids could choose disco dancing instead of math; her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous; the Passover dinner when she stole a matzoh right out from under a rabbi; the aweinspiring, lifethreatening Chicago snowstorms; and lessons about love from teareading gypsies and Popeye cartoons.

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21515 words21,515 words
144 pages144 pages
Lexile 960LLexile 960L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 2004Published 2004

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9780786855094

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