Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: A Memoir of My Fifth-Grade Year

Sing a Song of Tuna Fish: A Memoir of My Fifth-Grade Year by Codell, Esm? Raji. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780786836529.

Like every fifth grader, Esmé Raji Codell spent her days at her school, in her neighborhood, and with her family. But this small world provides rich material for these hilarious, moving, and engrossing stories. Esmé tells us about the night she and her mother became "egg vigilantes" against an illegally parked car; her freewheeling first school, where kids sat on sofas instead of desks and could choose disco dancing instead of math, and her dangerous neighborhood, which her father made seem friendly and wondrous. In this childhood memoir, Esmé demonstrates her gift for making the ordinary extraordinary, and the unusual familiar.