Save Me a Seat (Hardcover)

from AbigailAdams26

Told from the alternating perspectives of Joe Sylvester and Ravi Suryanarayanan, two fifth-graders at Albert Einstein Elementary School in New Jersey, this engrossing middle-grade novel addresses issues of immigration and belonging, bullying and friendship, and perception and reality, when it com...

from foggidawn

Two fifth-grade boys, Ravi and Joe, have the potential to be good friends, if they can see past their differences and unite against the class bully. This is the sort of book that's going to be read and loved in schools all over, and rightly so. The characters are interesting and definitely develo...

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Save me a Seat is a good novel that focuses on two boys from completely different backgrounds and yet they have similarities and eventually become friends. Ravi (from India) moves to America where he is surprised to find out he is not at the top of his class anymore, and in fact he needs extra he...

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Monday through Friday. Ravi (from India) and Joe (fifth grader with auditory processing disorder) tell their stories in alternate chapters. What do we know about someone else? How often we misjudge! I loved this book for the insights into these two worlds and I know my 4th and 5th graders in my s...

from byroade

A good novel for middle grade readers about making friends, dealing with bullies, what it's like to emigrate to the US, what it's like to need special education. POV shifts between the two characters. A special note that the most unrealistic thing in the book is that the special education teacher...