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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2018 | Middle Grade
Gr 5–7—In this middle school take on The Breakfast Club, five barely acquainted students are serving detention, each for a last-day-of-school transgression none of the others nor readers know about, by helping out at a nursing home on the last day of summer vacation before they enter high school. Each is assigned to an elderly resident and, in alternating chapters, their personalities and issues are revealed along with those of their assignees, even as t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on March 1, 2019
Five middle schoolers are assigned to work in an assisted-living home as punishment for misdeeds. Over the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More