Author: Patricia Polacco
Title: The Lemonade Club
Illustrator:
Readability; Fifth Grade
Genre: Picture Book
Subgenre: Realistic Fiction
Theme: Friendship and courage.
Primary and Secondary Characters: Traci, Marilyn, and Miss Wichelman
Award(s) and year published:2007
Award(s) and year published:2007
Publishing Company: Philomel Books
ISBN number:978-0-399-24540-4
Summary and how the book will be used with students:
This story is about two best friends named Marilyn and Traci, who go to school together and then begins to realize that their close dear friend is becoming skinny, does not eat as much anymore, and begins to wear a head scarf to school each day. Before this was found out Traci and Marilyn always hung out together, Traci loved to hear Marilyn play the piano. Traci did not know what she wanted to do but she new she wanted to help people. They were both in the fifth grade together in Miss Wichelman's class. Miss Wichelman always taught them when life gives you a lemon or two just add water and sugar and you will have lemonade.
A few weeks later Traci was informed by Mairlyn's mom that she had leukemia. Miss Wichelman informed the class the next day, the class sat back and stared because they did not what to say or do. Traci visited Mairlyn everyday, she was there when she started chemo and her hair began to fall. One day Miss Wichelman stopped by to check on Mairlyn, she was really down in spirit thinking she would never playy piano again. Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn she had to get better so she could attend her wedding and she wanted her to wear yellow dress and they were going to make lemonade out of lemons. Just when she thought she was depressed andalone she found out not just her friends was there to help her fight her battle with leuikema but her whole fifth grade class. When she retuned back to class everyone had on hats just like her. Most importantly they shaved their heads just like her. Even Miss Wichelman shaved her head. Later that day Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn that she too knew how she felt because she had breast cancer. A few months later she was married and there the girls were in their yellow dress ready to make some delicious lemonade
This would be a great book to use in the classroom to introduce sickness and how to deal with it in the classroom. This book could also be used to help talk about strong friendship bounds or be used while talking about different character traits. I think it would be great to use lemons and lemonade as the center of a math lesson as well. I could also take lemons and write different adjectives own it and make lemonade with good adjectives and bad showing that it all taste the same, just depends on how you look at it.
This story is about two best friends named Marilyn and Traci, who go to school together and then begins to realize that their close dear friend is becoming skinny, does not eat as much anymore, and begins to wear a head scarf to school each day. Before this was found out Traci and Marilyn always hung out together, Traci loved to hear Marilyn play the piano. Traci did not know what she wanted to do but she new she wanted to help people. They were both in the fifth grade together in Miss Wichelman's class. Miss Wichelman always taught them when life gives you a lemon or two just add water and sugar and you will have lemonade.
A few weeks later Traci was informed by Mairlyn's mom that she had leukemia. Miss Wichelman informed the class the next day, the class sat back and stared because they did not what to say or do. Traci visited Mairlyn everyday, she was there when she started chemo and her hair began to fall. One day Miss Wichelman stopped by to check on Mairlyn, she was really down in spirit thinking she would never playy piano again. Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn she had to get better so she could attend her wedding and she wanted her to wear yellow dress and they were going to make lemonade out of lemons. Just when she thought she was depressed andalone she found out not just her friends was there to help her fight her battle with leuikema but her whole fifth grade class. When she retuned back to class everyone had on hats just like her. Most importantly they shaved their heads just like her. Even Miss Wichelman shaved her head. Later that day Miss Wichelman told Mairlyn that she too knew how she felt because she had breast cancer. A few months later she was married and there the girls were in their yellow dress ready to make some delicious lemonade
This would be a great book to use in the classroom to introduce sickness and how to deal with it in the classroom. This book could also be used to help talk about strong friendship bounds or be used while talking about different character traits. I think it would be great to use lemons and lemonade as the center of a math lesson as well. I could also take lemons and write different adjectives own it and make lemonade with good adjectives and bad showing that it all taste the same, just depends on how you look at it.
I liked this story it was sad but it had a good ending
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