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A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during homeroom becomes a national news story.
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Schools, Juvenile fiction, High schools, Fiction, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Readers (Secondary), Criticism and interpretation, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, general, Friendship, fiction, Truthfulness and falsehood, fiction, award:Newbery_award, lexile_code:NP, age:min:12, age:max:13, grade:min:4, grade:max:7People
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"Coach Jamison saw me in the hall and said he wanted to make sure I'm trying out for the track team!!!!"
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(From Scholastic (publisher) website):
In this thought provoking examination of freedom, patriotism, and respect, ninth grader Philip Malloy, is kept from joining the track team by his failing grades in English class. Convinced that the teacher just doesn't like him, Philip concocts a plan to get transferred out of her class. Breaking the school's policy of silence during the national anthem, he hums along, and ends up in a crisis at the center of the nation's attention.
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