Ms. Koch and Mrs. Walker's Class

Not Nothing

Alex is a twelve year old boy who has been assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility learns unexpected lessons that change the trajectory of his life. To say Alex has had it rough is an understatement. His father’s gone, his mother is struggling with mental health issues, and he’s now living with an aunt and uncle who are less than excited to have him. Almost everyone treats him as though he doesn’t matter at all, like he’s nothing. So when a kid at school actually tells him he’s nothing, Alex snaps, and gets violent. Fortunately, his social worker pulls some strings and gets him a job at a nursing home for the summer rather than being sent to juvie. There, he meets Josey, the 107-year-old Holocaust survivor who stopped bothering to talk years ago. As Alex comes back again and again to hear more, an unlikely bond grows between them. 

Mrs. Davies' Class

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Once upon a time, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. When Edward is lost one day, he begins a long and perilous journey. One that brings him into the lives of a travelling train-rider, an elderly couple living by the sea, and another little girl. 

Along the way, we are shown a true miracle: even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again. Edward has a lot to learn about life and love but will he allow his heart to break in order to learn?