Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

I just finished a new book by Andrew Clements called Extra Credit.  You may have read some of his other books, like Frindle, No Talking, or The Landry News.  This is the story of two sixth graders, an American girl and a boy in Afghanistan.  They become pen pals because she has to do an extra credit project to keep from being held back in sixth grade.  The letters flow back and forth and pretty soon there is an unusual friendship building between the two:  they not only learn about each other’s completely different ways of life, they also learn to appreciate their own lives.  Like Clements’ other books, this is a school story but also much more:  it is a story of friendship and real learning.  The bonus in this book is that you learn about life in Afghanistan, a country very much in the news these days.

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