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Opportunity is knocking at the door of Mr. "Fab" Fabiano's sixth-grade class. Mr. Fab is absent and a ... read full description
Opportunity is knocking at the door of Mr. "Fab" Fabiano's sixth-grade class. Mr. Fab is absent and a ... read full description
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Oct 23, 2011
Suvetha
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My class just finished reading Flying Solo By: Ralph Fletcher 
for read-aloud. This book is about a class who is supposed to have a sub. but she never shows up. So they decide not to tell anyone and to just do their regular work. But someone ends up finding out, I'm just not telling who.. =D What I really liked about this book is it sounds like the author has been in that situation, it's so.. detailed, and everyhting happens unexpectedly. I would like to say more.. but it'd give it away.. But w
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for read-aloud. This book is about a class who is supposed to have a sub. but she never shows up. So they decide not to tell anyone and to just do their regular work. But someone ends up finding out, I'm just not telling who.. =D What I really liked about this book is it sounds like the author has been in that situation, it's so.. detailed, and everyhting happens unexpectedly. I would like to say more.. but it'd give it away.. But w
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Dec 07, 2011
Ellie
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Ralph Fletcher, author of Flying Solo is an author I greatly admire, in all the genres in which he writes: non-fiction (A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You, Live Writing); poetry (Relatively Speaking, A Writing Kind Of Day: Poems for Young Poets) and fiction (Spider Boy and, of course, Flying Solo).
Reading Flying Solo was a very satisfying experience-Fletcher manages to work in some of his favorite ideas about More...
Reading Flying Solo was a very satisfying experience-Fletcher manages to work in some of his favorite ideas about More...
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Nov 02, 2011
Lillian
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I thought that this book was great. It was about a classroom of sixth graders that needed a substitute for their amazing teacher; "Mr. Fabiano." When the substitute that was called in for Mr. Fab called in sick, the class was stuck without a teacher. They wanted to try to be able to stay in the classroom without a teacher. In the story, there is a boy and his name is Tommy Feathers. His family owns a bakery and he would always bring in some treats for his class mates. Tommy Feathers ha
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Sep 01, 2009
Dramane
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This book is about a couple of classroom room kids, their teacher is not there. There supose to have a substitute teacher and they do not show up. So they have a class all to themselves. What they do is try to run the class themselves. They also think about some other things that happened in the past.
Well i can sort of connect to this because i had substitute teachers before and sometimes they went out the class and did not show up for a while. So i tried to run things. It More...
Well i can sort of connect to this because i had substitute teachers before and sometimes they went out the class and did not show up for a while. So i tried to run things. It More...
Jan 11, 2011
Karen
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Sep 20, 2011
Chelsea
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I recomend this book for everyone this book is really emotional and exiting this book teaches you about freindship and how to really savor your memories and think about them beacause they are not going to be there forever.I learned that you might have something to love but you only love it or realize it once you have to move away or give it away because you know that it's not going to be there for the rest of your life.This compares to me because this is my last year in fith grade in my school a
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Jun 15, 2010
Sandra
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Take a class of sixth graders and let them run the class on their own and what do you have? When sixth grade teacher Mr. Fabiano's sub calls in sick the message doesn't get delivered. Mr. Fabiano's class decides not to tell anyone. Karen appoints herself the leader and believe it or not they follow the lesson plans, most of the time. Things go smoothly until the assembly.
This was a fun book to read with some deeper issues. Why has Rachel stopped talking? How does Bastian really feel More...
This was a fun book to read with some deeper issues. Why has Rachel stopped talking? How does Bastian really feel More...
Nov 13, 2011
Natasha
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Flying Solo is a startlingly poignant children's novel about a classroom of students who manage to govern themselves for a day while their teacher is out sick. I picked this book up as a child in the fifth grade and expected nothing more than a fun read about kids getting into trouble. What I got was an intense view of a group of children's attempt to come to terms with the death of their classmate. The story is related through easy to grasp, but insightful images and analogies. I was particular
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Aug 11, 2011
Shauna
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3-1/2 stars. This was one of the Scholastic dollar books that I picked up one month and read now because I was looking for something shorter and lighter than what I had been reading. I was pleasantly surprised, and even gave it to my soon-to-be-6th grader who gave it positive reviews as well. I liked how the story got into the heads of many different sixth graders and showed their thoughts and motivations with great variety, honesty and a feeling of reality.
Jul 31, 2011
Jill
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Picked this one off my shelf as I waited for books from the library, and I was pleasantly surprised! A fun story about a classroom running their class by themselves for the day since there was a mix-up with the substitute. The kids surprisingly did a great job keeping the classroom functioning. It would be interesting to see if in reality a well-organized and managed classroom could pull this off. Kudos to the teacher for training and inspiring his students!
Sep 05, 2010
Michelle.
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This book was amazingly boring. We had to read this as a class and it literally made me fall asleep. I actually fell asleep in class! Each character thought that their life was sooo bad. BIG DEAL! I'm moving away, the boy that like me died, I have no friends, I'm giving away my dog, the girl I like doesn't like me. Wow. That's so sad. The plot was bring too. Nothing relatively exciting happened. The sub didn't come, oh no! what do we do! Boring! The obvious part of the book was that everything w
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Aug 27, 2011
Dianna
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This was another read aloud that Abbey and I shared so she could get through her 5th grade summer reading list. It was about a 6th grade class that took care of themselves for the day when there was a mix up with their sub. I only gave it two stars because the writing was too choppy and the characters were a little too unbelievable to me. There were some odd elements in the story to that just didn't seem to fit. The best part is that Abbey liked it.
Jun 08, 2010
this book is about this class in middle school which their teacher is absent. also there was no substitute coming in. and the whole class is voting if they should go tell the main office or not. but in the end they choice not to and run the class with a student in charge of things. if you want to know what happen to this class and if they got into any trouble or problems u should really go grab one of this book and read it
Mar 09, 2009
Emily
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I liked this book, it was actually really good and it was funny but at the same time it taught a lesson. The author did a really good job of portraying an adolescent girl ridden by guilt and the day that helped her to (literally) find her voice in a classroom full of kids who were free for a day and still had part of that guilt for being a bully. Flying Solo in class though did not work. What did it last 20 minutes tops? The teacher left the room and there was automatic chaos.
Nov 24, 2010
Karen
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Flying Solo is a good book for people who especially like comedy. It is about a class and there teacher takes a sick day and there substitute doesn't show up, they don't tell anyone. So in some cases that is a problem, it is very hard to keep it a secret that there is no teacher in your room because the other teachers always come in your classroom during the day to ask your teacher a question.
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Jan 20, 2011
Adrienne
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i really believe in this book, also the fact that if a teacher and the sub is absent, kids CAN run the class themselves. I loved this book even more than the other books that i have read because it has ALWAYS been my dream for me to be the teacher if this ever happens. i reccommend this book for people who like airplanes, conversations in the characters heads, and running a class yourself.
Mar 18, 2011
Alvaro
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This book is about a sixth grade class. One day they had a substitute but he or she never came. So the class learned to teach there selves. During that time a boy named Bastian finds out he's moving to Haiwaii and he dosn't want to go. A boy named Tommy Feathers died and the whole class does a rock ritual where everyone holds a rock and says something about Tommy. Then later on in the book the class has more substitutes but they never show up and the class dosn't tell the principal. So they keep
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Dec 05, 2011
April
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A quick book about a 6th grade classroom without a teacher for a day and the lessons they learned together. Rachel choosing to talk or not; Bastian deciding what to do with his puppy since he is moving to Hawaii that weekend; Karen leading the class with Mr. Fabiano's lesson plans and how to deal with the 6 month anniversary of Tommy Feather's death.
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Jun 05, 2011
Ashley
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This book could have a been a bit longer. Mr. "Fab's" 6th grade class finds themselves without a teacher one day and they are forced to confront the death of a classmate. Told through a variety of characters and confronts some interesting themes. Describes what many schools actually are like. This book could have a sequel to discuss what happens after.
Apr 03, 2010
Dean
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Another young adult book. This sounded interesting to me. I thought about reading it out loud to my class, but it's a bit too deep for that. The main message is about personal responsibility and choices. The story is told in alternating viewpoints from the perspective of the 6th graders in their class during a day without a teacher.
Mar 22, 2011
Alexandra
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This book is about some Mr.Fabiano's class. When they find out that the sub they go didn't show up the kids decide to run the class by themselves. At the end of the story Rachel and Bastian get into a fight abot Tommy Feathers, A kis that died.hey end up gettin caught with the principal,Mr Peacock. So they get in big trouble.
Nov 03, 2011
Amber
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This is a book about a child who fell silent after one of her classmates died. The thing that made her talk was that the classroom was left alone, and one of the students became her new friend. I would show this to the classroom by making them understand people could go through some stuff.
Jan 12, 2010
Gresham
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I don't know why it took me so long to read this book - it's been sitting in my classroom for years. Ralph is one of my favorite authors, and this story has an interesting structure. Even though Mr. Fabiano only shows up in the last chapter or two, you can tell what an incredible teacher he is.
Jun 22, 2011
Ann
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Don't we all wonder what our class would do if we were not there and our sub did not show up? Add to that the anniversary of the death of one of their classmates and you have the makings of a very good read. Really reminded me of the baggage students bring to school on a daily basis.
Aug 12, 2010
Heather
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A recommendation from a student, I thought it might be an interesting book to read with my class. HUGE mistake. I'm glad I read it first. There is no character development and the author barely skims across the real conflict in the book- a death of a mentally handicapped classmate.
Dec 04, 2011
Trevor
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It was a good book about where kids in the 6th grade have a teacher named mr.Fabiano a.k.a mr."fab". So they plan to have a substitute. Well... she doesn't come so the the kids have to improvise on their own. They don't go tell the office about the missing (sick) substitute after a vote. Well you'd think they would have a big party... but NO. They do the work that was planned for the substitute on the board. So they follow the directions but they have to go to a assembly. At the assemb
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Apr 18, 2011
NewFranklin
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i liked this book very much and hope that people can read it it is about. A 6th grade class who's sub never arrrivse and the try to show they can be responesabl but can they. I recomend this book to 6th grade to 4th graders. and hope people can read it
Nov 21, 2010
Crystal
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I got this book free with a book order and decided to preview it before I put it on the shelf for my 3rd graders to read. I actually really enjoyed reading it. But I don't know if I'll put it on the shelf for my students. I don't want them to get any ideas!
Jan 06, 2011
Jena
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A great book. Mt class loved this and it provided soooo many opportunities for discussion about responsibility, personal codes, friendships, and the way we treat those who are different. Definitely my favorite Ralph Fletcher book.
Jul 26, 2011
Kelly
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This book was too unrealistic for me to appreciate any redeeming qualities it may have. In my experience as a 6th grade teacher for the last 16 years, no sixth grade class that I know would be able to self-manage and be so productive for an entire day with no teacher!
