Extra Credit
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Extra Credit is a 2009
children's novel
written by Andrew Clements
. It is about a girl named Abby Carson who struggles in school. Her teacher decides now is the time to act. It's time for Extra Credit. Abby is going to fail the sixth grade and be held back. She knew that she had problems in school, but nothing this serious! The only way to save her grade is to get high scores for the rest of the year, do all of her homework, and do an extra credit report. She has to exchange letters with someone from a different country, with a different culture. Then at the end of the school year, she must tell her class what she has learned. She corresponds with Sadeed Bayat, a boy from a small Afghanistan village. She learns a lot about a different way of life.
2009 in literature
The year 2009 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*8 October - Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller wins the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature....
children's novel
Children's literature
Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...
written by Andrew Clements
Andrew Clements
Andrew Clements is an American author of children's books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States,. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and fishing and his evenings reading books...
. It is about a girl named Abby Carson who struggles in school. Her teacher decides now is the time to act. It's time for Extra Credit. Abby is going to fail the sixth grade and be held back. She knew that she had problems in school, but nothing this serious! The only way to save her grade is to get high scores for the rest of the year, do all of her homework, and do an extra credit report. She has to exchange letters with someone from a different country, with a different culture. Then at the end of the school year, she must tell her class what she has learned. She corresponds with Sadeed Bayat, a boy from a small Afghanistan village. She learns a lot about a different way of life.