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    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
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    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen

    By Claudia Mills and Rob Shepperson

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    Kelsey Green is the best reader in the third grade--well, maybe tied for best with know-it-all Simon Ellis. When the principal Mr. Boone announces a school-wide reading contest, complete with a pizza party for the winning class and a special certificate for the top readers in each grade, she knows she's just the person to lead Mrs. Molina's third graders to victory. But how can they win when her classmate Cody Harmon doesn't want to read anything, and even Kelsey's best friends Annika and Izzy don't live up to her expectations? And could Simon possibly be reading all of those books that he claims he is, or is he lying to steal Kelsey's rightful spot at the top?
    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen is the first book in Claudia Mills's Franklin School Friends series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9780374374884
    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen
    Author

    Claudia Mills

    Claudia Mills is the acclaimed author of many books for children including the Franklin School Friends children's book series, including Cody Harmon, King of Pets and Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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    • 5/5
      Is it wrong to love a story so much just because the main character is an enormously obsessive reader? I’m not sure, and I’m also not sure that anyone other than enormously obsessive readers would love this book quite as much as those of us who are such do and will. Nevertheless, even if you are not, I would hope that you would admire the character growth of little Kelsey, who sets aside her own personal goals to help her class achieve its goal.It’s a marvelous tale, I think. I love it.
    • 3/5
      Kelsey loves to read - in fact, she is one of the best readers in her class. When the principal challenges the school to a reading contest, Kelsey knows that she will lead her class, and her school to victory. The only problem is, no one really seems to care as much as Kelsey -- except for Simon, who cares too much because he's beating her as top reader! As the contest continues, Kelsey's love of reading turns more into a chore and she learns important lessons about keeping things in perspective. Cute, but it felt a little forced. I like the message(s) but they were not subtle, and I think kids will recognize that as well.

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    Kelsey Green, Reading Queen - Claudia Mills

    1

    Kelsey Green no longer heard any of the voices in her third-grade classroom. All her attention was focused on the book spread open beneath her desk.

    Would the old key that had been buried in the earth for the last ten years open the locked door to the hidden garden?

    Drawing in her breath, Kelsey waited as the key fitted into the keyhole.

    The key turned.

    Then with a squeak, the door opened slowly … slowly.

    Kelsey!

    The sound of her name startled her. The voice was cross, as if it had been calling her name without success for some time.

    She looked up from The Secret Garden. Mrs. Molina was glaring at her from the front of the classroom.

    Kelsey, the rest of us are focusing on page 163 in our math books. The rest of us are not staring down at our laps lost in a daydream. The rest of us are doing fractions.

    Kelsey felt sorry for the rest of them. But now she also felt sorry for herself. She knew Mrs. Molina was waiting for her to turn her full attention to her math book—the one book in the whole world that Kelsey did not love, or even like, but actually hated.

    Question fourteen, Mrs. Molina said. What is one-eighth plus one-eighth?

    Kelsey had no idea. She wasn’t completely sure what an eighth was.

    Luckily, one of her two best friends, Annika Riz, sat right behind her. Annika whispered the answer, loud enough that Kelsey could hear, but not loud enough that Mrs. Molina could hear.

    Two-eighths, Kelsey said.

    And two-eighths reduces to?

    Annika whispered the answer again.

    One-fourth, Kelsey said.

    Next to her, Kelsey’s other best friend, Izzy Barr, started to giggle, but stopped herself in time. Both Kelsey and Izzy were glad to be best friends with the third-grade math queen. Izzy would rather be out running than doing math. Kelsey would rather be reading than doing math. Annika loved math the way that Izzy loved running and Kelsey loved reading.

    Mrs. Molina shot Kelsey a suspicious look, but called on someone else for question fifteen.

    With Mrs. Molina’s attention directed elsewhere, Kelsey allowed herself to glance down at the book on her lap and finish the next few lines. Mary Lennox was finally standing inside the secret garden at Misselthwaite Manor! Kelsey didn’t dare turn the page to start the next chapter.

    Instead, she listened as Simon Ellis got question sixteen right; Simon was good at everything. And as Cody Harmon got question seventeen wrong; Cody was bad at everything, or at least bad at math, spelling, reading, writing, science, and social studies.

    Just as someone else was trying to answer question eighteen, the classroom door opened. In came the principal, Mr. Boone. Mrs. Molina’s voice turned friendlier as she welcomed him into the room. She saved her stern, math-fact-quizzing voice for her third graders. But even though her voice sounded friendlier, her face didn’t look any friendlier.

    Mr. Boone settled himself on Mrs. Molina’s desk. Kelsey could tell from the way Mrs. Molina snatched a stack of papers out of his way that she didn’t approve of principals sitting on teachers’ desks. Mr. Boone was large, and he took up a lot of room. Mrs. Molina moved her coffee cup far away.

    The best thing about Mr. Boone was his big, booming laugh. Kelsey had never been sent to the principal’s office; she wondered if Mr. Boone laughed even when naughty kids were sent to him for talking back to teachers or fighting on the playground. He would have to be strict and scolding sometimes if he was a principal, but it was hard to imagine. Mrs. Molina should be the principal, and Mr. Boone should be a third-grade teacher, preferably Kelsey’s third-grade

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