Things seen from above

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The work Things seen from above represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Newburyport Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Things seen from above

Statement of responsibility

Shelley Pearsall ; illustrated by Xingye Jin

Creator

• Pearsall, Shelley

Contributor

• Jin, Xingye

Author

• Pearsall, Shelley

Illustrator

• Jin, Xingye

Subject

• Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
• Individuality -- Juvenile fiction
• Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
• Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
• Art -- Juvenile fiction
• School children -- Juvenile fiction
• Observation (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
• Bullying -- Juvenile fiction

Genre

• Juvenile fiction

Language

eng

Summary

April is looking for an escape from the sixth-grade lunch hour, which has become a social-scene nightmare, so she signs up to be a "buddy bench monitor" for the fourth graders' recess. Joey Byrd is a boy on the fringes, who wanders the playground alone, dragging his foot through the dirt. But over time, April realizes that Joey isn't just making random circles. When you look at his designs from above, a story emerges... Joey's "bird's eye" drawings reveal what he observes and thinks about every day. Told in alternating viewpoints--April's in text and Joey's mostly in art--the story gives the "whole picture" of what happens as these two outsiders find their rightful places

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

[Fic]

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction