A review by libzesawyer
Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

4.0

This is a great book for 3rd/4th grade students to give them insight into how people live in other parts of the world. Abby has been checked out at school and now she may not advance to the next grade unless she can bring her grades up and do an extra credit project for one teacher. That extra credit project turns out to be forming a pen pal relationship with a child in a distant country--Afghanistan. Abby's life and the life of the boy and girl that she corresponds with are forever changed by this letter exchange. I will use this as a lower grade companion to I Will Always Write Back.