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| Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: A Memoir of My Fifth-Grade Year | 
| Author: Esme Raji Codell
Creator: Leuyen Pham
Publisher: Hyperion Book CH
Category: Book
List Price: $5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 113180
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0786836520
Dewey Decimal Number: 812.54
EAN: 9780786836529
ASIN: 0786836520
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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Product Description
Like any fifth grader, Esm Raji Codell spends her days at her school, in her neighborhood, and with her family. But this small world provides rich material for these hilarious, moving, and engrossing stories. Esm tells us about the night she and her mother became egg vigilantes against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of at desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math; and her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous. In this childhood memoir, Esm demonstrates her gift for making the ordinary extraordinary, and the unusual familiar.
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 An Exceptional Book June 27, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed "Sing A Song of Tuna Fish" immensely, not only because of the fantastic description and detail, but also how Esme Raji Codell created an incredibly entertaining story of her childhood. I think she did a very good job of making something that in real life might not have been that entertaining, into a very good story. I think that even a 40 year old would enjoy this book!!!!
funny, inspiring.... January 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for all ages -- I read along with my 10 year old who did a report on this book ....terrific, funny....very true to life....
Great as a mentor text! October 29, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As an antidote to a wicked case of bronchitis, I've managed to read my way through a stack of books on my nightstand and found a winner: Sing a Song of Tuna Fish, Hard to Swallow Stories From Fifth Grade by Esme Raji Codell, the author of Educating Esme and other books.
It was published in 2004 but I hadn't seen it until last week on the shelf of the Atlantic County Bookmobile. What a treasure! I've been searching for good mentor texts to use with our fifth and sixth grade classes, something that would make the kids and their teachers really "get" the need to focus writing workshop around memoirs--and boy this is it! Esme takes you right into her life as a fifth grader. I think that both kids and adults will be inspired to explore their own childhood experiences after reading this book.
Sing a SOng of Tuna Fish is good for future writers January 5, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book made me Laugh so hard I liked her first book Sahara Special but this is even better. The teacher used thhe book to help us journal and I thought it would be boring but I could not wait for her to read these funny stories out loud and then write my own stories about things like school and grandparents. This author writes about the city in a way that is FOR REAL and not boring and now I write in my journal every day because I want to be a writter. My only comnplaint is this book is not rewally about tuna fish but I dont even like tuna fish so who cares.
Sing a SOng of Tuna Fish is good for future writers January 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book made me Laugh so hard I liked her first book Sahara Special but this is even better. The teacher used thhe book to help us journal and I thought it would be boring but I could not wait for her to read these funny stories out loud and then write my own stories about things like school and grandparents. This author writes about the city in a way that is FOR REAL and not boring and now I write in my journal every day because I want to be a writter. My only comnplaint is this book is not rewally about tuna fish but I dont even like tuna fish so who cares.
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