![]() ![]() While this is a book that uses the school year to name itself, it is far more a book about family, about relationships, and about the ways in which, from the perspective of a child, school and family are interconnected. ![]() Rather, with four short stories capably nestled side-by-side, we move through Billy’s second grade year, identified in four sections of the book according to characters (Teacher, Father, Sister, Mother) and seasons (Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring). Henkes’s latest novel, a beginner chapter book, does not propel the reader forward with stark dramatic tension or pacing, nor does the narrative arc really focus on one single story. ![]() He realized that as soon as one problem is solved, something else is right there, waiting to take up your time.” Throughout Billy Miller’s second grade school year, new problems do surface, one after the other, just as each day, the sun rises and sets, the school day begins and ends, and the pages of the calendar turn. ![]()
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