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Title:The last Holiday Concert Author: Andrew Clements

Genre:Realistic fiction Nominated by: Thomas West

The main character of this book is Hart. One day Hart flings a rubber band at Mr. Meinert, who is the music teacher. It hits him right in the neck. Mr. Meinert reacts by bringing Hart to the principal's office and Hart gets detention. When they have their next class Mr. Meinert writes on the board that Hart is in charge of the holiday concert. In the beginning, Hart did not want to be in charge of the concert. He had trouble getting the other kids to cooperate because the other kids wanted to do lots of things that did not fit in a holiday concert. Hart makes it better by having other people in his class help him with the concert. Hart, with the help of his friends, picks out the songs, and the dancers, and finally the decorations. It all goes well and Hart has a good time until Mr. Meinert tells Hart that Mr. Meinhert has to leave the school because of budget cuts. So in the end Hart feels good about the concert but sad about his teacher.

I nominated this book for a few reasons. First, because my friend Georgie was reading it and he said it was a good book and trust me it was!!! Second, once I started reading it I could not put it down because I wanted to know what would happen next. My favorite character was Hart because he never goofed off but was able to bring order to most of the classes planning the concert.