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The Fruit Bowl Project
By Durkee, Sarah
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-38573-289-5 978-0-38590-310-3
- Publisher
- Delacorte
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
Gr 5-8 A new teacher who is an admitted -dork - reveals to her eighth-grade Writers' Workshop students that she is related to rock superstar Nick Thompson. Not much impresses these savvy New York City kids, but they are suitably wowed. Nick, a songwriter, is invited to teach the class. He contends that a song is like a bowl of fruit, and that he needs to figure out how to paint it, using words as colors. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2006
A class of eighth graders collaborates on a writing project inspired by a visit from a famous rock star. He helps them set up the project's parameters—a setting and a sequence of events—and turns the students loose to write the scene each in his or her own style. The first third of the novel introduces the teacher and kids; t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
