I love this series.
Evan and his genius sister Jessie are in fourth grade together (Jessie skipped a grade). Although Jessie is intelligent in academic areas, she is clueless about people, feelings and relationships. Her lack of insight leads to major problems when she publishes personal information about LOVE in her 4-O newspaper. Evan discovers he really likes poetry and has a gift of understanding it and writing it well.
Each chapter begins with a word definition. The chapter's about Evan include a definition about a type of word (like -onomatopoeia) while chapters about Jessie define words concerning newspaper writing/investigative reporting. Chapters flip back and forth between different siblings' perspectives.
Jessie's newspaper is included in the back along with the poetry terms used throughout the book and featured poems.
*Highly recommend.
A perfect book when teaching: poetry, figurative language
Point to discuss:
Sometimes the siblings and classmates are not kind to each other.
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