- Schools, Fiction, Friendship, Behavior
After meeting on the first day in Mrs. Chemsky's fifth-grade class, Margalo and Mikey help each other in and out of trouble, as they try to maintain a friendship while each asserts her independence.
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Classical in form, spare, earnest and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Cynthia Voigt
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 277
- Publisher
- Demco Media, Scholastic, Rebound by Sagebrush
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780590601351
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“They said later that they were friends from the first minute of fifth grade, from the very first.”
Cynthia Voigt is an American author of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse.
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