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The book Extra Credit by Andrew Clements is an outstanding book and is great for everybody. I thought it had a great way of explaining the things that happened throughout the story. I loved all the details that the author described in the pictures that they sent back and forth to each other in their letters.
Extra Credit is about a girl named Abby Carson and a boy named Sadeed Bayat who are both falling behind in their school work in one way, so they are both assigned an extra credit project that will help get their grades up. Abby picks a note from a box saying to pick a pen pal from another country and send a letter to him saying things about you and your country. It also said that once she had at least 4 letters written and received, she would have to make a report on how her pen pal is doing and about what is going on in his country. Things in Afghanistan are very different from here so being pen pals was challenging. Sadeed wasn't able to just send a letter so the story is about how and who sent the letters.
Abby learns how lucky she is to live in America where she is free and happy.
I really liked this book and think you will too.
