Extra Credit is a 2009 children's novel written by Andrew Clements . The work was first published on June 23, 2009 through Simon & Schuster and follows a young schoolgirl who is given the option of receiving extra credit by writing to an overseas pen pal in a small Afghanistan village. The book won a Christopher Award for Books for Young People in 2010.
6-463: The protagonist of Extra Credit is a 6th grade girl named Abby who is falling behind in her classes. In order to improve her grades so that she will be able to go to Junior High, Abby has to write to a pen pal in another country for extra credit. The teachers of the Afghani town Abby writes to want Sadeed to respond because his English is the best, but the head elder does not think it would be right for
12-540: A boy and girl to write to one another. Instead, Sadeed's sister Amira is chosen to write with Abby. However, Sadeed secretly writes the letters and Amira just signs them. Eventually Sadeed gets annoyed that Amira gets all the credit for the letters and writes a secret letter to Abby, telling her that he was the one writing the letters. The book has received multiple reviews. Two critics for the Horn Book Guide reviewed Extra Credit , with one writing that "Although
18-495: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Horn Book Guide The Horn Book Magazine , founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature . It began as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony and Elinor Whitney Field , proprietors of
24-685: The country's first bookstore for children, The Bookshop for Boys and Girls. Opened in 1916 in Boston as a project of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union , the bookshop closed in 1936, but The Horn Book Magazine continues in its mission to "blow the horn for fine books for boys and girls" as Mahony wrote in her first editorial. In each bimonthly issue, The Horn Book Magazine includes articles about issues and trends in children's literature , essays by artists and authors, and reviews of new books and paperback reprints for children. Articles are written by
30-402: The ending is a little too neat, it’s the kind of ending kids like, and Clements’s timely story should receive high marks from middle-grade and early-middle-school readers." Publishers Weekly praised the work, as they liked that Clements discussed different cultures in a way that could be understood and appreciated by younger readers. This article about a children's novel of the 2000s
36-534: The staff and guest reviewers, including librarians, teachers, historians and booksellers. The January issue includes the speeches of the winners of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award , and each July issue includes the same from the winners of the year's Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal . The Fanfare list, published in December, is the editors' selection of the best children's and young adult books of
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