Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781536215588)

Maple is in fifth grade--again. Now everyone will find out she struggles with reading--or will they? An engaging read for anyone who has ever felt different.

Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade. Maple is devastated--what will her friends think? Will they forget about her? She uses her storytelling skills to convince her classmates that she's staying back as a special teacher's assistant (because of budget cuts, you know). But as Maple navigates the loss of old friendships, the possibility of new ones, and facing her reading challenges head-on, her deception becomes harder to keep up. Can Maple begin to recognize her own strengths, and to love herself--and her brain--just the way she is? Readers who have faced their own trials with school and friendships will enjoy this heartwarming story and its bright, creative heroine.

Author: Kate McGovern
ISBN-10: 1536215589
ISBN-13: 9781536215588
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.80w x 1.20d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.4
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 512794 / Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2021
School Library Journal 10/01/2021 pg. 86