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I bought this for my classroom and the two separate storylines weave together so well, my fifth graders actually argued over who got to read it next. The way it handles playground politics and the friendship growing between them feels real without being preachy, and the pages held up after a full mo

The integration program setting feels authentic, and the way the two boys' alternating chapters slowly weave together kept me turning pages past midnight. The handling of playground politics and first crushes is spot-on for fifth grade.

The story hits on real middle school issues like crushes and loss, but it handles them with such honesty that I stayed up way past midnight to finish it. The way it captures the pilot year of the integration program feels incredibly genuine, not preachy at all.