Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

Extra Credit, a book by Andrew Clements is a great book.  Extra Credit is about a girl named, Abby, who only likes gym class.  Every other class she is getting lower and lower grades. It is not that Abby is a bad student it is that she thinks that doing a bunch of worksheets is boring. She think that she is just doing the same thing one way every day.  In February Abby gets a letter that she will not be moving onto seventh grade, and she is not happy, neither are her parents. The next day she asks her teachers if there's anything she can do to bring her grades up. They said that if she does all of her homework every day, gets a B or better on any test, and did an extra credit project and presented it to the class she might be able to move onto seventh grade.  She pulled from an extra credit mystery box and she got a pen pal letter. She had to write a pen pal letter to Afghanistan. Sadeed was a boy in Afghanistan who had to help his sister write letters to Abby. After about 2 months of writing back and forth Sadeed was threatened by people who do not like America and saw the American flag stamp on Sadeeds letter. So for the safety of Sadeeds town Abby stopped writing her pen pal letters.  But Abby did keep up her part of the deal and moved onto seventh grade. I loved the book Extra Credit it was a great book that I think a lot of people would like. It is even better when you read the whole book.

Blog post authored by a fifth grade girl