Our first chapter book read aloud is The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff. We are in the third chapter, and our 4th grade students are loving it! They thoroughly enjoy getting to know the main character, Georgie Washington Bishop, who is a ten year old dwarf. Georgie's parents are accomplished musicians of normal size. In Chapter 3, we learned that Georgie's mom is having a baby, and we are predicting that Georgie is wondering if his sibling will be a dwarf like him or of normal size like his parents. Our students are learning that Georgie cannot do everything that they can do, because of his size. ...but then again, some things he is able to do. For example, Georgie and his best friend, Andy, have a dog walking business, and Georgie walks the smaller dogs like poodles and Andy walks the larger dogs like Great Danes. We know that Georgie has a good heart because he is trying to make money so that he can buy his parents decent presents at Christmas time and still have money left over to buy comics for himself. Our students are very engaged and curious to see how Georgie is going to deal with Jeanie the Meanie, a fellow classmate who constantly pesters him. Already, we are becoming aware of the differences in others, how we perceive others and how they perceive us. Now that you have a little introduction of our read aloud, you might be interested to learn what our readers have to say about this highly entertaining book. Stay tuned! Our students will be posting soon!
Dorry Lopez and Meli Launey
