Realistic Fiction-Sixth Grade Secrets By: Louis Sachar

         Laura's is a sixth grade girl surrounded by secrets. She decides that she will no longer by the victim of  this situation, so she creates her own club. She names it after Pig City, the funny hat she wears that she often gets picked on about wearing. To keep her club exclusive Laura makes her members tell her each an embarrassing story about themselves that she keeps as collateral if they betray the secret club. She promises to keep each members "collateral" secret if and only if they keep their mouth shut about "Pig City". Laura decides to recruit a quiet kid named Gabriel to the group. She thinks this is a good idea because he obviously knows how to keep his mouth shut. However, upon being asked, Gabriel decides to form his own secret society "Monkey Town". How will two secret societies manage to survive one year of sixth grade? 

      This book is very much like Andrew Clements book No Talking in the sense that it is another Boys vs. Girls battle gone overboard. I would read this book as a fun read aloud when their is spare time in the classroom. I think it is important to read this text because students need to understand that reading is supposed to be about enjoyment just as much about learning. Activities that could go along with this book are creative writing exercises. I would read the book and stop at a "cliff hanger". Once I stopped, I would have my children predict what they think is going to happen next and I would have them write evidence from what we have read already to support this prediction.