Genre: Fiction
Review: This is a good fiction book because it talks about how kids feel about cursive and how practicing makes you better at something. This book makes the idea of cursive and the struggle it brings to kids real because it talks about emotions and makes the characters come alive.

Carolyn is an excited young second grader. She is learning to write in cursive. Like many kids she is really struggling to make her writing look right. If she finishes early she can play with the hamster or on the computer. Unfortunately it takes her forever to complete her handwriting and it is not good. The teacher hangs their papers on the board to show how much they have improved. Carolyn is sad her writing has improved but is still not very good. Her teacher notices this and explains to her how proud she is for all of her hard work. She knows that people learn at different rates and are great at different things. She points some of those things out to her.
What made this so great is that the teacher didn't get made because she couldn't do something to "Her" standards. She praised Carolyn for the progress she made, for where she was. This is what all good teachers should do. ( )