A Fourth Grade Teacher's Opinion I am a fourth grade teacher, and plan to offer a set of books that chronicle the fourth grade experience for my students' Literature Circles. To that end, I read Fourth Grade Celebrity. It's a little dated, but most fourth graders will recognize themselves and others in its pages. The book is a quick and humorous read, and I think my students will like it. The average fourth grader should find the readability level accessible; the vocabulary is not too challenging (for good and bad), chapters are short, and the pacing is brisk. There is no overtly offensive language (although two characters are referred to as "a pain in the A" [and I do mean "A"; I'm not censoring here]). This is a pleasant little book; not great literature, but certainly not drivel either. I will include it as a Literature Circle choice.
Do You Want to be a Class Celebrity? I really liked this book. It is about a girl who tries to be really popular, but it is hard to be well liked when her older sister has the best reputation in the whole school. I mean come on, you and I both know it is annoying to always be compared to a perfect older sibling. The teachers always call her Van, her sister's name, and yell at her because she isn't perfect like her sister. Ya, I know that doesn't sound realistic, nobody's perfect. She wants for people to know her as herself. I found one problem with this book: there were no illustrations. Read the book to find out all the great details.
A Fun Book! I read this book when I was 10. My mom got it for me as a birthday present and I loved it. I felt like Casey was a lot like me in that I wanted to make a name for myself. When I started fourth grade my popularity was decreased and I felt like nobody recognized me. Unlike Casey, I did not get the opportunity to run for class pres, or anything. But Casey was someone I looked up to and could identify with. She gets herself into all sorts of jams in this book and has such an imagination!
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