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Alvin Webster's surefire plan for success (and how it failed)
By Greenwald, Sheila
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-31632-706-0
- Publisher
- Boston : Little, Brown, c1987.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 1988
Gr 4-6 Two events change the life of Alvin Webster, a gifted student and a compulsive achiever. His parents announce the coming arrival of a sibling, and at school, he is assigned to tutor a fellow fifth grader in math. When Bone refuses to become Alvin's star pupil, Alvin is faced with his first failure. In the end, Alvin does help Bone improve in math, but Bone teaches Alvin just as much about coping with life in general. This novel features the same Manhattan private school found in Greenwald's stories about Rosy Cole and has the same formatlarge type...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
