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The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School
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Here's a chapter book with all the kid appeal and absurd mayhem of Louis Sachar's classic Sideways Stories from Wayside School! These hilarious fables, complete with morals, will make you wish you went to Aesop Elementary.
Welcome back to Mr. Jupiter's inimitable class in this companion to The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School. His rambunctious, special stude ...more
Welcome back to Mr. Jupiter's inimitable class in this companion to The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School. His rambunctious, special stude ...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
August 10th 2010
by Schwartz & Wade
(first published August 5th 2010)
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Jun 30, 2016
Janice RWG3
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The book tells the story of comic novels stories. Here’s a chapter with different chapter of each little story. Why I write for this book, because I had a contrary teacher in my school life. I want to know what different reactions between two types of teachers. The book relates how the classic and funny wired teacher taught their students and the teacher always goes his ways. He didn’t follow school rules.
At the start of the new term, the Aesop elementary school headmaster engaged five training ...more
At the start of the new term, the Aesop elementary school headmaster engaged five training ...more

I laughed so much with this book! It's a great sequel to The Fabled Fifth Graders of Aesop Elementary School.
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The kids from Aesop Elementary School are back, and this time they rule the school as 5th graders! Rejoining them is their beloved kooky teacher Mr. Harry Valentine Jupiter, the only staff member at the school brave enough to take on this class of rowdy misfits.
Each chapter, which ends in—what else?—a moral, contains a quick and funny story from the school year and highlights the different students who make up Mr. Jupiter’s unconventional class. Throughout the final year at Aesop, Mr. Jupiter’s ...more
Each chapter, which ends in—what else?—a moral, contains a quick and funny story from the school year and highlights the different students who make up Mr. Jupiter’s unconventional class. Throughout the final year at Aesop, Mr. Jupiter’s ...more

I really wanted to like this book, but I didn't. Too many one- ... actually, half-note characters, too much absurdity that I didn't find all that amusing. But the kids it's written for would probably have a different opinion.
I do have to say that it could kick off lessons on:
- fables/morals
- descriptive character names a la Dickens
- spelling
- journalistic integrity
- crochet
- reading music
- geography
But I probably won't be teaching any of them in relation to this book, because I don't want to ha ...more
I do have to say that it could kick off lessons on:
- fables/morals
- descriptive character names a la Dickens
- spelling
- journalistic integrity
- crochet
- reading music
- geography
But I probably won't be teaching any of them in relation to this book, because I don't want to ha ...more

A wonderful book to read at a chapter a day. The moral at the end of each chapter would be better digested at this leisurely pace. I enjoyed the way the children are growing and changing under Mr. Jupiter's quirky methods of teaching. They are acquiring a background for learning that will make them all better life long learners. And Mr. Jupiter himself is adjusting in ways that find him changed at the end. I don't think he was ever able to stay with a group of students long enough to acquire the
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I had high hopes for this one. The review that I read compared it to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School", which was one of my favorite books growing up. This book was definitely no "Sideways Stories". The chapters felt short and underdeveloped, and the characters were flat. The supposedly-loveable teacher, Mr. Jupiter, around whom the book is centered, was barely sketched in. I just wasn't able to connect with this book on any level.
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The cutesy character names really rubbed me the wrong way, but I stuck with it and the story grew on me. Mr. Jupiter's class of wacky 5th graders has all kinds of misadventures, promoted by the their unconventional teacher. Although I wouldn't call the chapters fables, each is summarized by a moral, and that is what I enjoyed most. I think this book would be enjoyed by 4-5th graders who enjoy school stories such as Dan Gutman's Weird School series.
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What an odd little book. Zaney humor is really best when it's cleverly backed by some intelligance, and it's this book's smart use of fable that really saves the story. Each chapter (and the chapters all stand pretty well on their own as short stories) is ended with a moral from one of Aesop's fables. These morals do a decent job of pulling the odd humor together into something more cohesive.
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Humorous, clever, and brings a new twist to Aesop's classic tales - just the thing to point today's kids back to the real thing. Presents fresh, smart classroom vignettes which culminate in a chapter-closing point based on Aesop's Fables. This could have been a disjointed disaster, but in Ms. Fleming's skilled hands we've got a funny, contemporary novel that appeals to all types of readers, and boys and girls alike.
For ages 8-11 (best for 4th and 5th graders)
available in paperback ...more
For ages 8-11 (best for 4th and 5th graders)
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I didn't like this book very much. Each chapter was supposed to be a re-telling of a fable, or at least it's just a story that kind of fits one of Aesop's morals.
Any way the names are all kinda lame and don't really have any need to be weird some are a little bit fun but honestly Wayside school books are better thought out.
For second and third grade who may not like full books yet and need a book where every chapter is a story, that is completed. ...more
Any way the names are all kinda lame and don't really have any need to be weird some are a little bit fun but honestly Wayside school books are better thought out.
For second and third grade who may not like full books yet and need a book where every chapter is a story, that is completed. ...more

I got the ARC at ALA and finally got around to reading it today.
I sort of wish I hadn't.
It wasn't terrible. But it wasn't good, either.
The first book, The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School, was funnier. ...more
I sort of wish I hadn't.
It wasn't terrible. But it wasn't good, either.
The first book, The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School, was funnier. ...more

Silly, good-humored, fun. Similar to Wayside school, but more loosely plotted, which is fine. You almost feel as if the author is writing for both the teacher and students because the faculty room jokes and stereotypes are spot on - again, in a good way. I'd recommend to boys and girls - grades 3-5.
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I was hoping this sequel would be as fresh and fun as the first but I was disappointed. This book felt forced to me. I felt the character names and some of their situations were aimed more to adults than the children the book is marketed toward.

I rated this book from a kid's point of view rather than an adult's. While a little silly and shallow for adults, I enjoyed the fun stories and had fun trying to guess what moral would go with the story. An inventive and fun twist on the classic fables.
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Jan 07, 2010
Claire
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Recommends it for:
9-11 year olds great classroom read.
Follows the fabled fourth graders and their intrepid teacher Mr. Jupiter to fifth grade. Starts a bit slowly and rapidly picks up steam. Amusing fables of life in a lively fifth grade. Fun.

Found the humor tedious. I'm definitely not the right reader for this book, unfortunately. Liked the premise.
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Jan 14, 2015
Karen Ruiz
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i think there should be another book because the book went on kind of fast
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I have always been a storyteller. Even before I could write my name, I could tell a good tale. And I told them all the time. As a preschooler, I told my neighbors all about my three-legged cat named Spot. In kindergarten, I told my classmates about the ghost that lived in my attic. And in first grade I told my teacher, Miss Harbart, all about my family's trip to Paris, France.
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