After all, next term was coming, and it never hurt a sixth grader to have a play sister in the eighth grade, or a tenth-year student to be able to call a twelfth grader Bubba. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I misread and he didn’t skip a grade and is coming next fall? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I remember that it earned me a good enough grade, but my teacher suggested with quiet tact that next time I try writing about ‘something you know more about—something closer to home.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to find the stack of newspapers she had made during fourth grade. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of sixth grade, Mrs. Wexler pulled all the Frequent Flyers together in her little office. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The first was a series of questions required of everyone in a particular grade. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in first grade, a boy in my class punched me in the face one day, his fist coming like a comet, full force and out of nowhere. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the same school where I failed first grade because I did not know English well enough and where I had received first prize for my drawing of a butterfly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jack was the best artist in the whole fifth grade. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The last time I won anything, it was a spelling bee in second grade. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Room 40 was where she and James had social studies with Mr. Quisling, so she shouldn’t have been surprised when she stepped inside to see him there, grading papers, but she was. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were jolly Maycomb girls of excellent character who had never made the grade. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Faces of my teachers, distorted with my exhaustion, saying over and over, “Sparrow is going to repeat eighth grade” and “Sparrow hasn’t done work in months” and “What’s wrong with your daughter, Ms. Cooke?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Then, when I was in ninth grade, I met this girl.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After another long stretch of silence, he said, “Your counselor told us your grades are slipping.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“She’s in my grade at school. Mama, can I have the chicken head?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He survived kindergarten by keeping mum, but in first grade, when he blurted out “Brutte bastarde!” at another kid, his teachers caught on. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The seventh grade hallway is already jam-packed with bodies and backpacks when I arrive. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I know. He changed it in third grade.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A Meecham gets the best grades, wins the most awards, excels in sports, is the most popular, and is always found near the top no matter what endeavor he undertakes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Lucy, welcome to East Hamlin Middle and to 7th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t missed one single day of making my wish since the end of fourth grade, so I sure didn’t want to miss one now. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In 1936, a delegation headed by the Parrish Street Gang petitioned the city for a twelfth grade at all-black Hillside Park High School. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys have been inseparable forever. I remember when we were doing Where the Red Fern Grows in sixth grade and we were reading book reports in front of the class.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was in third grade and my teacher gave everybody in the class a letter to take home. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was playing basketball now, his grades had improved, he liked a girl called Autumn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It took about two weeks for the rest of the kids in my grade to get used to my face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But once he got to middle school, Mustafa’s grades went downhill. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Bridget is in seventh grade now, like me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

When I finished my Trial, I felt so sure of my answers that I didn't even bother to watch them grade it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lasher had convinced me that I was bright, and by the time I approached the ninth grade, education had become very important to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The West End had grades from third to eighth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the fourth- and fifth- grade classes got to go to the Amish farm for a field trip. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her objective at first was not to educate me especially for first grade, but to slow me down during the day and to keep me from coughing all night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sam had poor grades in school and low self-esteem from all that treatment. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boy from an upper grade accused him of indiscretions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I just did well on my written work, passing tests with high grades and handing in assignments done in perfect English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mr. Tushman came back to the podium to present the medals for academic excellence, and Jack was right: Ximena Chin won the gold medal for “overall academic excellence in the fifth grade.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was getting good grades in the third marking period, I was still improving rapidly on drums, I continued to be oddly popular at school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her what grade I was in, and the names of my siblings. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the right deck for Old Maid and, unfortunately for you, I excel at Go Fish. I won the Go Fish tournament in fifth grade.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing about any of my report cards since sixth grade that have my parents expecting to find me graduating from an Ivy League school. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The nearest schoolhouse—which had one room and a single teacher for eight grades—was three miles away, and to get there, Tom and his siblings had to walk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I knew you looked familiar. We were in third grade together. Ms. Bridges’s class. I sat behind you.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I'd started seventh grade that fall, which meant attending Welch High School. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was open season on the eighth grade president, especially on the school bus, where there were no teachers, and the only rule is anything goes. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Megan had been struggling for a few years—with school grades and swimming injuries, with her relationship with her parents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In third grade, he’d lied about finishing his take-home reading, and the next day his mom had landed in the hospital with appendicitis. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our homeroom shuffles down to the multipurpose room, and as soon as I get there, I realize why Matt wasn’t in homeroom: because he’s running for seventh grade class president. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In the sixth grade there was a boy in my class who had a steel plate in his skull and was always complaining how test answers could never get through to him. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I missed a day of school once, back in fifth grade.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s filled with different-colored inks, reds and blues and blacks, and a couple of sparkly fluorescent colors from a gel pen kit I got back in sixth grade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why but I had a very good year when I was in the fifth grade. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Ever since that time when I couldn’t remember a single thing about Benjamin Franklin and almost cried in front of the whole third grade from embarrassment, I always write notes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

In grade school, at Rose Elementary, I had one true companion. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But somehow, I was always “one of the boys ”—and the four of us did everything together, ever since seventh grade. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked hard and got good grades, but a lot of students there were getting good grades. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had known lots of girls in grade school, and most of them looked way better than Ma as far as he was concerned. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were only into the first week of seventh grade, and everything was changing. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The older grades have gathered on this side of the gym for picture day and the door’s loud squeak has made everyone turn in our direction to stare. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Liam told me you’re not playing football. Good for you. Ever since he started, his grades have been abysmal. I’m tempted to make him quit the team.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Me: “That’s great. I mean, you’ve always talked about traveling, ever since we were kids. Remember when we were in fourth grade and we read Heidi and we tried to melt cheese in your fireplace?” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She never reads what we write; there are no grades in homeroom, just attendance and participation points. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I was in third grade, I got the name Fluff because I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches every day for lunch and also, I guess, because I started putting on weight. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Molly Roswell stole my clothes during gym all through tenth grade. She has four children with two different fathers, and a DUI. “ We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And the gap steadily grows over the second and third grades. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Jesse’s grades, when the transcript arrived, were mediocre, far below what he seemed capable of. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of grades did you get on your last report card, Karen? Mama told me you did real well.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to remember things like the time she took me to my first dance class when I was in third grade. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He might dissect, anatomise, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eighth grade,” Bigger whispered, surprised at the question. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since the “Toast for Change” wiped the slate clean for many of them, their grades have gone from Ds and Fs to As and Bs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

There’s this kid in my class named Marcus who always makes good grades. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A poor student, C.P. had quit school in the eighth grade and had gone to work at a service station, washing and greasing cars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

—How can you possibly say your grades are improving? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I learned more from my grandmother than I did the whole eighth grade.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since I had leaped a grade in two weeks, anything seemed possible, simple, easy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year, in every grade, he has a far-off look. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Isa, I’d really like for you to go with me to the eighth grade dance next month. Please, will you come with me?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

They’d made a straightforward deal, just like the ones he made with the universe: improve your grades, and you can have a dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now I was in seventh grade and still I was waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maya’s boyfriend, Ryan, happens to be the only other black kid in eleventh grade, and everybody expects us to be together. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Hula hoops, stuffed animals, ruler of the world—high school sounded a lot more fun than the fourth grade. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

We had to have a good grade point average, good attendance, and take more classes than the average student. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was impatient with his lessons, mouthed off at teachers, got poor grades, spent his hours coining witticisms and engineering elaborate practical jokes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I should ask to go back to fifth grade with Jay. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When my second grade class did a play, the whole class went to the auditorium except the Chinese girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Albert finally comes up, she keeps her head down and pretends to be grading exams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The final week of sixth grade and the start of summer break creeping up mean prime relocation time. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Matt, as the new seventh grade student council president, takes charge. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

So DuShawn and Addie are going to the dance together and, as it will turn out, they will end up going out together the rest of seventh grade. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Albert drives them home in their little NSU Prinz 4, the clutch rattling, and Jutta takes a stack of end-of-term exams from her school bag and grades them at the kitchen table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I know the exact date: October twelfth, fourth grade. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Next test, I’m going to get the best grade in the class. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

This was the last big grade for this quarter. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another C minus. If I study all night or don’t study at all, seems like I get the same grade. I ain’t seen a B in a long time.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In second and third grades I probably learned more from the Sci Fi or Discovery Channels than I ever learned at school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

All my grades are neatly organized in a spreadsheet, and I have copies of every test, project, and paper stored in folders. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was something both heartbreaking and awesome about that big boy being scared of some fifth/sixth grade special kids. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It turns out they weren’t teaching today, only finishing up grade reports and doc- uments, which is why the Doctorita came home early. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made a distillery like that back in seventh grade as part of a science lab. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was kind of nervous about what was going to happen if Byron ever got out of sixth grade and went to junior high school before I caught up to him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the affected children, known as the “Lost Generation,” never made up the missing grades of education. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Girls wear makeup in sixth grade? Do girls in your class do that this year?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had not secured the required Potions grade. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Big Dub saw it as a way to keep his players’ grades up and Siobhan occupied after school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

An eighth grade boy is already at one and standing at the other is Matt Hubbard. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I got lousy grades," I said, feeling as if I had already wasted my entire life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My English-language teacher, Mrs. Khoji, came to my house to tell me that I had received a scholarship to the Catholic school for eighth grade. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I knew table switching was something that happened in the fifth grade, but I never thought it would happen to me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Boys stayed only until grade four, then headed to Iona, a combined middle-grade and high school that catered to students from grades five to twelve. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Allegra shrugged and returned to her new favorite topic, the eighth grade dance. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In second grade, Robert Caseman and his ilk matured a bit. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He is an easy marker; he does not much care for grades. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lori, because of her good grades and art portfolio, had been accepted into a government-sponsored summer camp for students with special aptitudes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If this were for a grade, I’d get an 82, or a B. I plan on getting an A in the class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I was in seventh grade, Dad had said I was old enough to handle the insulin duties. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

You name it, if it had a grade attached to it, Maya would ask you about it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

My grades for the last quarter of school will be much better—I promise. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was only in second grade, he was technically free to backpack through Europe, or go on safari in Africa, and breeze through customs upon his return. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m in the sixth grade, am I not? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She thinks Annabeth is the most levelheaded demigod ever to hit eighth grade. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nicholas dropped out of school in the eleventh grade and has been on and off the streets ever since. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Middle school is sixth grade, I remind her. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you were in fourth grade, I may have been your boyfriend for about two weeks at a summer program for gifted children.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

In the fifth grade, I had a teacher who always called me lazy in front of the whole class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We might finally get those grades of yours up. Wouldn’t that be nice?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand that you have just arrived, and unfortunately, that leaves me with no basis on which to give you a grade for this term.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that kid was a king there. He’d been dating the same girl since seventh grade. Who does that?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I can just see you and Imogen, standing together. You were the tiniest girls in the ninth grade. You all sang carols, and the Caraway girl had the solo. Do you remember?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She says by the time I start eighth grade I’ll have my own room, but that’s the last thing I want now. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I am not too modest to admit that in sixth grade, I had serious game. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“If you apply yourself, I have no doubt you could be at the top of your class,” his science teacher had told him after getting the highest grade on his midterm last year. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But she adds, “Since hip-hop is poetry, your grades should never drop again.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then finally, last year in fifth grade, I went into the kitchen one morning and saw my fish floating upside down in the bowl. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Mom, come on, a kid in the mental hospital at fourteen, barely passing eighth grade—that’s not really what you had in mind, is it?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We ran through the dark tunnels, listening to the roar of the Sphinx behind us as she complained about all the tests she would have to grade by hand. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

When I moved back to town in fifth grade, she was cooler than before. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Once when I was in fourth grade, our teacher had made us write descriptions of each other. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them, like Cherie, even called her Mom, bringing her their grades, photographs, and artwork to hang on her walls and writing her apologies when they ran into trouble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I sneak a peek at her, leaning over one of the eighth grade boy’s notebooks and pointing out “a few gaps in the logic here.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because of the steep grade, soil erosion from rain and wind whittled down food production year by year. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Looking under her bed, she found a tiny yellow glass cow Hasina had passed to her during recess in fifth grade. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing I noticed about the place when I started here last year in the fifth grade. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She also worked with him so he could catch up with his classmates, as this new school was much more challenging than the grade school he’d left behind. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought back to myself in eighth grade—all the good times still to come. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I’m used to saying I’m sorry for doing stupid stuff—like for spilling nail polish on the bedspread, or for hiding a bad grade I got on a math quiz. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A black girl who’s sitting at the other eighth grade table raises her hand, and Ms. Rochambeau nods to her. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I remember it felt that way in third grade, up at the board. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I guess that in terms of grades I was just as consistent as Lynn was, which, when you thought about it, was surely something to be proud of Lynn got straight A’s. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a short time in fourth grade Will and Claire had actually been boyfriend and girlfriend. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The joke was that to my seventh grade English class, I had made my father a myth, like djinns, like Rostam, or like Mike Maguffy’s girlfriend from summer camp that nobody else knows. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Back in the fourth grade, my teacher would have us lay our heads on our desks after we came in from recess. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles had a rather startling talent for forgery which, according to Camilla, dated from early childhood—expert report-card signatures by the fourth grade, entire excuse notes by the sixth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was in eighth grade when I got a painful and prominent red zit on my forehead. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was her job to make sure no one got out of fourth grade without lightning-fast multiplication skills. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade then—a little man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since fourth grade, she’d kept a running list of them and liked to reread it to see if she could get the stories to go further in her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Glamour Girl is one of the few black girls in my grade. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they’re in seventh grade. High school’s still a ways away.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But the two lines I saw graded status in purely racial terms. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, too, Carla felt relieved to be setting out towards her very own school in her proper grade away from the crowding that was her family of four girls too close in age. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Our middle grades’ entry,” Mrs. Grayson continued, “was written by Carolyn Malone. She wrote about the loss of her baby sister. Her essay is very brave.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And if that proved to be okay, they would integrate grades one through six. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And it’s certainly not something you want the hottest girl in eighth grade to hear. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went home at the beginning of December, just in time to finish grade one. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Nurse Myerson helped him up into the ambulance, and the greatest eighth grade president we ever had was gone. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“They should’ve given you a gold star. Bumped you up a grade.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“No. He’s my twin brother. He’s in seventh grade, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swore that they were going to do something important with their lives—solve a great mystery, or rescue somebody, or be so smart in school that they’d skip grades. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had been playing an instrument ever since the fourth grade, when his mother enrolled him in music class. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was in the sixth grade, right after his father first got sick. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Back when I was in the second grade, Miss Henry used to take me to different classrooms and have me read stuff out of the Bible or the newspaper in front of other kids. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then one night, just before I was due to start seventh grade, our world turned upside down again. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Seventh grade was the first year when I realized how far from home I had come, and how far I had to go to learn my new world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, I got good grades, but only because I studied as if my life depended on getting into Yale. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in fifth grade, I didn’t know the Unfamiliar would be beautiful and funny and heartbreaking and hard. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Herbert had left school after the third grade, realizing that he was needed to help support the family. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Being smart and getting good grades makes you an outcast in the projects. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was the cutest boy in seventh grade, and I liked him. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Later on, in twelfth grade, I worked with another great teacher my mom hired, Miss Susan. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Are they giving letter grades on the subject of me, or is it pass/fail? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keen silently writes their names on the blackboard, along with their current grade. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Written tests were his downfall because he could not speak them, and as a result he got grades which were barely passing. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Success is so often measured by grades and test scores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had made out with only two boys and had shared a quick, truth-or-dare kiss with a girl named Eve at a seventh grade dance party. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“This is your floor. There are four classrooms up here, all fifth grade, two on each side of the hall with the bathrooms right in the middle.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Ever since Ms. Gruwell announced that the Freedom Writers with the top thirty-five grade point averages would win computers when we graduated, I started getting As and Bs on my report card. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The small group of my friends seemed to have the same goals: to behave appropriately and make good grades. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Back in spring, when I was in the fifth grade, just months before he, like his brother, was assassinated, Big Ma put on a church outfit to hear the senator speak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Just getting to school for my first day of ninth grade was a whole new odyssey, involving ninety minutes of nerve-pummeling travel on two different city bus routes as well as a transfer downtown. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She always called the grading system new wave, and said things like, Charter don't mean smarter. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Like most young Lackses, Day didn’t finish school: he stopped in the fourth grade because the family needed him to work the fields. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you write papers? Sing songs? How was he accustomed to determining your final grade?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, we’d had most of our core classes together. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

No one had expected them to trounce the other two sixth grades, but they did. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mind flashes back to when I landed in the hospital in the fifth grade with a fever that wouldn’t break. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

That year I was twelve years old, in sixth grade. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had these parents from hell who'd put him under massive pressure to get a whole raft of A grades and when the exam came, this kid just cracked and couldn't even understand the questions. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Saying I’m sorry for that thing I did in eighth grade feels stupid—because sorry isn’t enough. Sorry is almost an insult.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She only took the records through 6th grade, nothing higher. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was stronger because he was almost full grown and he’d flunked some grade two or three times. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she’s only in sixth grade and all the other kids are in seventh and eighth, Zoey’s the best one on her team. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I think back to second grade when my teacher wrote a whole lot of letters down and asked me what they said. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“When you get to third grade, say, ‘It’s two ten.’ Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fact: Companies pump the bag with nitrogen gas to prevent the chips from becoming potato crumbs, proven by my experiment in the third grade. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And I remember a time she did this in sixth grade. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I measure myself; I can’t act or play soccer, and most of them have better grades than me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My restlessness with Mason—and for the first time in my life a restlessness with being around white people—began as soon as I got back home and entered eighth grade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several more students file into the room, from both grades five and six. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There’s no such thing as a good idea when you’re in seventh grade. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Eighth grade president isn’t a real job,” I seethed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She was now twelve and in the seventh grade. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

First, I experimented to find out how steep the grade could be. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At El Camino Junior High I continued the eighth grade, which I had started in Corcoran the first week of November after the grape season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was two years older than the other kids in his grade from repeating a grade and losing time locked up. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Along around third grade they finally stopped pestering me, so I could stop pestering my dad. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

So in the spring of eighth grade I decided to quit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enrolled me in third grade at Boyette Springs Elementary School. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was almost a full week since anybody had laid eyes on the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The Pad Ninth grade is five months from when you and Coby have vowed to have a girlfriend or die. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin straightened up tall and proper, narrowed her eyes, and said, “Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“In the whole grade. I’m thinking of being Ada Lovelace.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had taken his first drink in fifth grade, and by the time he was a senior had built up quite a reputation for drinking. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah was happy when she died: her grandson Little Alfred was now twelve, headed into the eighth grade, and doing well in school. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All of us were churchgoing; all our parents demanded good grades in school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Okay, wait. That’s a lie. I played the recorder in fifth grade.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They were scheduled to go up against grade eight. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can only see third- grade Rachel who liked barbecue potato chips and who braided pink embroidery thread into my hair that I wore for months until my mom made me cut it out. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Janae, are you serious? Come on! What about your grades, focusing on getting a job right after you graduate? And us? Mama and Papi?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Indian people could get pretty intense about grades, and maybe his parents were putting the pressure on. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You are so clever. Keep your grades up and go on to your A-levels so you can go to university like we did. Then you can do whatever you want.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"I finished grading your math tests. Only five of you passed." Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since the first grade, she had forced her teachers to make a special case of her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

One by one, each of us steps to the microphone to state our name, grade, and ambition in life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying you can’t care. I just don’t want a repeat of my science project in eighth grade.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I mean, I was only in 2nd grade, and we were still learning addition and subtraction. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what you wear for an eighth grade semiformal dance.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he knows that I came into sixth grade wondering what would ever become of me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Sure,” he said, “but it’s not in the cards. No money, no time. I don’t have the grades either.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was eager to be in the second grade. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Love and hate in seventh grade are not far apart, let me tell you. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A school district this size, with approximately twenty-six thousand students in all grades, should have eight to ten National Merit Scholars a year, not just one, said Hayes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She'd covered these lessons back in the third grade and took every opportunity to demonstrate her superiority. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like it’s hopeless to try to feel good and make good grades. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, all the girls had been taken to the auditorium for a special film on the subject. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Take the morning Principal Cody caught me and him fighting in the hall three months before I got locked up—Diego was in eleventh grade, I was in tenth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Back in fourth grade, our teacher, Ms. Diamatis, started calling him Bob English Who Draws because he was always zoning out and doodling with a superfine Sharpie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I grade your homework every day. I recognize your handwriting.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the rate he was going, he would no longer be eligible for football once he received his grade for the six-week period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seventh grade had sports teams and foreign languages. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t, though — I was determined to pull all of my grades through this so I wouldn’t add to my parents’ worries. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haley was the princess of the seventh grade. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

But then one day in fifth grade, we had a new kid come to our school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Patrick was only one grade above them, but something about him was older, as if he’d crossed a line Bridge couldn’t even see yet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I reached the third grade, I outgrew such behavior. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stunk to be starting eighth grade over a month into the school year. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have the money to attend college, not even one in the OASIS, and my grades weren’t good enough for a scholarship. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in school together since sixth grade, and in that entire time, I’ve probably exchanged fifteen words with both of them combined. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Louie, who knew only a smattering of English until he was in grade school, couldn’t hide his pedigree. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade wing was on the opposite end of the building from the art room. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“There are none in our grade. The only ones I know are my cousins and they’re...a lot.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She raised her voice slightly, like I was a kid in grade two. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It also meant I needed an entire new wardrobe for the start of ninth grade. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My grades were among the highest in the school. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine, having to know everything that six grades must know. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade president wasn’t supposed to set a good example. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

A good-size hide was worth from four to ten dollars, depending on the grade and quality. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished the sixth grade, if that is what is called education.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then this huge hand settles on my shoulder, and I look down and see the middle school graduation ring he's worn on his pinkie ever since eighth grade and know immediately that it's Tiny. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She’s the only one in our grade who wears a watch. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Somebody chased him as another woman asked me the usual dumb questions about what grade I was in and what my favorite color was. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The part of Birmingham, Alabama, I grew up in was so classconscious that a boyfriend broke up with me in ninth grade because my telephone exchange was not the socially obligatory 871 or 879. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Like when she returned two weeks late into the beginning of the school year in sixth grade. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They compounded his misery by holding him back a grade. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

These names bothered me in sixth grade when I was excited to start middle school and make friends. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“You see, our studies in the ninth grade were more or less a review of what we had in the eighth grade.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba always tells me how good I am, but since sixth grade started, Mama hasn’t even looked at my drawings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I told him, you make your grades and stay in sports, you’ll one day have those things.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can someone please explain to me what happened onstage? The rudeness to a fellow band member? Sacrificing all of our hard work, in front of all the parents and the entire grade?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said that he studied undergraduate work at some college in the West that doesn’t give grades, which I thought was peculiar, but Bill said it was the best education he ever got. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The only other memory I have of her is from fifth grade when she snapped at a teacher who kept calling her African American. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But,” he quickly added, “if you get excellent grades, you can get scholarships.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad kept after me about my grades and stuff. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t smile or say “Good Morning” or “Welcome to eighth grade” or “Did you have a nice summer?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, it was something he had lived, eaten, and breathed since seventh grade. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an almost in first grade when I wanted to walk our dog, Biscuit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like his parents’ divorce was a pleasant time for him, or like he runs himself ragged about grades for fun. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That was sixth grade, Amina. Everyone goes to the dances in seventh grade. You have to come.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was just about to finish Form Two, the equivalent of eighth grade in America. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

David and I are in the same grade, even though he’s taller and heavier and looks like junior high already. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second Base Stace, who had breasts in the fourth grade and let some of the boys feel them. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He then went on to algebra I, a course that the average college-bound student took in ninth grade and some took in eighth. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had survived algebra in the tenth grade, barely managing a B after a flurry of good test scores at the end of the school year. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the tallest boy in the sixth grade, I was on the honor guard and was scheduled to carry the flag at the graduation exercises, an honor I almost missed because of God’s revenge. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of school in the seventh grade and ended up in court for “assault by striking” right after his seventeenth birthday. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For five days, girls in fourth grade through seventh grade from all over Brevard County learned all kinds of neat stuff about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Fuchsia without makeup, though, and suddenly I feel like I’m looking at her second grade self again. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I hope so. I just want to get good grades, because Papa always said that what’s in here” —I tapped my head —"no one can take from you.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He hated getting any grade below a ninety. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We’re only in eighth grade, but everyone knows she’s already picked out her first three college choices, her probable major and potential minor and the focus of her eventual graduate studies. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In second grade you have to do a lot of talking. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Alice, Nora, and I tend to do our work in front of the TV or with music playing, but we all get good grades, regardless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On Friday afternoons, the seventh grade invaded town. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At first nobody knew what to do, because we weren’t exactly all friends, and we also weren’t in second grade, so we weren’t going to start spontaneously running around and playing tag. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The different ways to teach a song are related to children’s different learning styles, such as aural and visual learning, and the child’s appropriate cognitive development; e.g., age and grade development. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I flash back to fourth grade, when I changed schools five times in less than four months ’cause we kept moving while Mom and Sam looked for work. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Those Pokemon briefs were surprisingly comfortable, and I hadn’t worn briefs since I was in, like, third grade. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There are several girls I watch avidly at school, a grade or two above me, whose well-to-do parents take them to the Twin Cities to buy clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Fifth grade will be a medley of new things.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Yet it was obvious to everybody that the eighth grade president was not hospitalized, not suffering from amnesia, not in a vegetative state, and was very, very much alive. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. He was going to figure it out anyway. You get good grades. I’m the 1 failing his class.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No need to involve the law. We just want the tests graded. Now. Please,” Pastor Patton added. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mamá was pleased when I told her I got an excellent grade in typing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Or at least I saw him pick his nose in the fourth grade. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids in sixth grade have friends from elementary school, but I don’t think Sara does. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

That ought to give the rest of the first grade something to chew their cuds on. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Miss Bell’s been talking of skipping them to the next grade, you know. I heard about it from my Spanish teacher.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The day before I started first grade, Lynn sat me down for a talk. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And for the first time since I started fourth grade, I knew exactly who I was—a scared kid up a tree. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re a small school. Most of us have been friends since first grade.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, he graded papers and watched football with Tommy while she went to T.J.Maxx and shopped for clothes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Seems that Betty learned that being popular in ninth grade doesn't mean much to an eleventh grader.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He held his hand over the receiver and asked, “What grade are you in, Miss Meecham?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought papers home to grade, so we’ll see how much I can get done in the next couple of hours.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“But convincing Mom she needs professional help? That’s above my pay grade,” he says. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the show, Mrs. Rappaport announced another project—a class election for someone to represent the sixth grade at the Christmas Assembly. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and she married him in another state where it’s legal to get married before eighth grade. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Passing by their lockers in seventh grade, I wasn’t aware of all this yet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The class in which I thought it would be the easiest to get a good grade, P.E., turned out to be one of the hardest. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She’s so good at keeping tabs on people’s test scores and grades, but she doesn’t have a clue how to read the social stuff. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But I knew if I told Mom or Dad about it, I’d end up with hearing aids—and I was hoping I could make it through the fifth grade without having that happen. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, a little rub-a-dub on Tiffany Watts, the baddest girl in the eleventh grade. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Where else can you find grade A, top of the line characters roaming the streets spouting Shakespeare in the middle of a blizzard? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have preferred that it had happened to her, because then she wouldn’t be standing here, helpless, with the entire fifth grade looking to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And, as usual, my brothers and I fought over the remote, over who got the best grades, over anything and everything. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was a great athlete, had perfect grades, came from money. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When he went off to first grade, he left her behind on her front steps, clutching a doll. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He studied them like he was trying to give them a grade. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So all the rooms on the third floor where the seventh grade was had Coat Rooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She does look older, but 10th grade is a stretch. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was too excited to concentrate fully, but she did grasp that the lopsided pasteboard star was one that Chadwell had made in the third grade. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When we walked in, all of my major-subject teachers were sitting around a huge conference table, drinking coffee, laughing, grading papers. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: What do you think of the people in eighth grade? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists of the Food and Drug Administration who reported the discovery of these tumors were uncertain how to classify them, but felt there was some “justification for considering them low grade hepatic cell carcinomas.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll work hard at school, get good grades, go to a good college, get a good job.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Fourth grade. ‘America is a land of immigrants,’ our book said.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I knew it on Monday, the first day of seventh grade, when she called the class roll—which told you not only who was in the class but also where everyone lived. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But now, in eighth grade, my size has become a profit center. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Huckleberry Finn they saved for me until the third grade, tantalizingly holding it back as if it contained the very secrets of life. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And with my average brain and average grades I lead a pretty average life. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

She was sixteen and going into the eleventh grade. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been left back so many times that at fourteen she was still in the sixth grade. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lets the class free read for ten minutes while she grades our papers. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Elementary school goes through sixth grade here, so this is our first year in middle school, and even though we’re already halfway through the school year, I still haven’t figured out the point of homeroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“She was a horrible math student in fifth grade. She cried every Saturday when we did remedial stuff. Huge tears and tears.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: What do you think of Johnny passing with the bad grades that he had? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade and I had gotten into high school and I was going to a party? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The profile listed my indent account balance, pay grade, blood type, current performance review rating—every scrap of data the company had on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel was only in the third grade, but he always seemed wise and old when he talked, kind of like my grandfather. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a school photograph—me, from seventh grade, cut from the Chicago Tribune. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

John and I came up with a contract stipulating that once the computers arrived the 35 students with the highest grade point average would win a computer when they graduated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mind you, we were in grade nine at this point. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I learned about the Holocaust in school—both in fifth grade and in tolerance education. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

As long as Gary Edwards had a failing grade in algebra II, there actually wasn’t much that could be done. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that I was forced to do some kind of folk steps to music in fourth grade, and I now realize that I was tragically uncoordinated even at that. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be in the cab with his daddy, but instead he was in the back with five men he did not know and Wally, who was in the grade above him and mean. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Gogol is in the third grade, they send him to Bengali language and culture lessons every other Saturday, held in the home of one of their friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A girl in fifth grade is about to explode. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Her brother was eleven and heading into sixth grade. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They lag behind the middle-class kids by only a modest amount, and, in fact, in one year, second grade, they learn more than the middle- or upper-class kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ted Bell sold advertisements for the paper, and he had a daughter in fourth grade at Lincoln Elementary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at Dad, but he was too busy shoveling rice into his mouth to comment on my math grades. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dad dug a hole underneath your favorite tree, the maple tree you planted when you were in third grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wish she’d just go hang by Albert, the walking Google page who’d get a better grade than me if he just blew his nose into the paper. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Preparations for the Opening Day ceremony had cost Olmsted’s department valuable time, as did the planting and grading required to repair the damage the day’s crowd had inflicted throughout the park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Don’t say, “Grandpa passed,” either, because we’ll wonder what grade he was in. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this is the thing: I’ve had a crush on you since tenth grade.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Naomi’s worshipful eyes never left the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

With stunning skill and knowledge, they answered questions far above their grade level to defeat seven other teams.’” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He had discovered a truth early in life—in the fourth grade, in fact. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was my fifth grade Innovation Project, a toilet-paper-dispenser hat so that whenever I had a cold I could reach up, yank down the paper, and presto! The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The way seventh grade worked, you were on an academic “team” with kids who took the same language. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Getting good grades and being accepted to a respectable four-year college topped my priority list. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He remembered trying to keep his grades up so that they wouldn’t argue over his academics when they were all living together. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That might have been true in sixth grade. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She start that ugly thing after what happen in seventh grade. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I guess I’d have eaten with Gale except, being two grades apart, our lunch never fell at the same time. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

All through seventh grade and into eighth I pursued my goal. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And next another car picking me up, the following September, for my first day of seventh grade. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Tommy read a lot, and when he was in fourth grade he had started collecting slang expressions that he thought were funny. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was guys and girls who kissed—in our grade, on TV, in the movies, in the world; and that’s how it worked: guys and girls. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They don’t grow on trees. Plus, his grades weren’t good enough. He was always working too much to finish his assignments.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Just the mention of that name brings back the memories I’ve tried to block since second grade: our class play about American independence. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Someone who has, you know, good grades and stuff? Our whole tomb depends on it. No offense, but you can’t give that job to just anybody.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He asked what grade I was in, what sort of hobbies I enjoyed, did I own a dog or a cat—the usual stuff. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Second grade: Jupe was seven and I was eight, and I came into her room one day and found her sobbing in her closet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’m honored to have been asked to give the commencement speech on behalf of the fifth grade this year. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the summer before ninth grade, Mom shed her baby fat like dead skin. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Like the Year of Stickers, when we’d collected and traded stickers in third grade. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It looked wide and well made with a good grade and the turns looked very impressive where you could see them through openings in the forest on the mountain side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered a girl way back in the sixth grade named Celeste. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most kids my age would call Darlene a diary, but she’s much more than a place to write stupid lists of the cutest guys in eighth grade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My mom first said that to me when I was in the second grade and my best friend won the Mini Princess Contest at the New York State Fair. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe ninth grade, he says, next September. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was in the finance club and on the debate team, and she was my grade’s student council representative. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In the pecking order of fifth grade, I was closer to the top than the bottom because my parents were rich and my dad had met the president of the United States. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He owned that record, a record that's really hard to own because there are a lot of annoying dummies in the seventh grade. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

My social situation at Strack Intermediate hadn’t improved one bit since sixth grade. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The school ran from kindergarten all the way through eighth grade, which meant that by the time I’d reached the upper grades, I knew every light switch, every chalkboard and cracked patch of hallway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A grade school girl in a frilly white dress handed each contestant a bouquet of roses, yellow for the girls, red for the boys. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The school got out a magazine at the end of the year in which the best story written in composition class from each grade was published. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In every play, at every party, perfect grades. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In seventh grade, things was going good and I was used to the whistles. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I loved that her lesson plans were the same ones used for ninth grade in the public high school I would have attended. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the secret ballots were counted, Emily won by a single vote, there being exactly one more girl than boy in the sixth grade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“He said he had a lot of trouble giving you a thirty-four on your math test. It was all partial credit. If you don’t get your grades together you won’t even be on the team.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the seventh grade, and I wasn’t exactly thinking about college yet. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Here at Seaward Pines Academy, sixth-graders don’t have the same teacher all day, like Miss Miller in the fifth grade. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I first met Jake when I was in the ninth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered our last few months of fifth grade, I definitely noticed that Ximena made more of an effort to branch out to other girls in our grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And one guy’s brother died of leukemia when he was in third grade. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had to be in sixth grade, but she had the body of a third grader and the face of a drunken grandmother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was a wonder Mrs. Peterson had promoted him to the sixth grade with the rest of us. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be in eighth grade, as I had finished seventh grade in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Silly things like my pink pillowcases, my record collection, my award for being the best speller in sixth grade. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later the short quiz is over, and the teacher grades them at her desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then Matthew went into the sixth grade and his classmate wanted to start a band, so her brother took up the guitar. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The National Core Standards for music takes the details from each of these anchor areas and breaks them down into specific, individual standards for use by each grade level. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s totally stupid. We haven’t played this kind of game since fifth grade, but whatever. We’re playing with a sense of irony, right?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m in 7th grade, too. But a lot of people think I’m in high school. The lifeguard at the pool this summer thought I was in 10th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You get killer grades, you graduate top of your class, you have your pick of teaching positions.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slips her number into my back pocket and then says, “See you guys!” as if we had just played on the swing set in fourth grade together. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She took Dorothy as her own daughter and pushed her to succeed, teaching the precocious girl to read before she entered school, which vaulted her ahead two grades. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She was only in second grade, with an even more Persian name than mine, and yet she was way more popular than I was. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“We were in seventh grade, and my dad was harping on me real bad. Patrick and his dad were there. It was deer season. I hit one.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By the time I turned twelve and reached grade eight, I’d given up on the idea of playing a competitive team sport. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I tell her I wasn’t lying that day I got sent home in third grade. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She called on people by the alphabet and kept her grade book open during the lessons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We’ve known each other since grade school, but it was last year at the homecoming bonfire that we had our first kiss. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was a complete drunk by the time I was in tenth grade. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I studied night and day and within two weeks I was promoted to the sixth grade. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger down the grades... he had passed well in Transfiguration and Herbology, he had even exceeded expectations at Potions! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At last, Mrs. Kluck sits at her desk and pretends to grade papers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

After a moment I broke the awkward silence by telling him my mother had begun to threaten me with military school if I didn’t get my grades and discipline together. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I was getting nineties, eighties, whatever, they just give me a grade,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no twelfth grade—students got a diploma and could go to college when they finished eleventh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was also my reward for making excellent grades and not talking to others about our mistreatment by the white people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Do not spend your time wanting things you cannot have. Be clean and dress nice and neat. Be polite. Make good grades. You will do well. You are so, so, so brave, hijo.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When she was in third grade, she’d had a babysitter who took her to the Art Institute once a month. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

One day in grade one, Mom arrived to pick us up after school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The fifth grade had music right after recess. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Who said I was a math nerd? I told you my grades suck.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The sounds of third grade shuffling and third grade jostling faded from their shelter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was so young. I was still in tenth grade, and he was giving me more freedom than I wanted,” Wayne says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This was my time—eighth grade, captain of the football and soccer teams, Big Man on Campus. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Content and achievement standards for dance, music, theatre, and visual arts; grades K-12. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“The average grade was 82. The highest grade was 95, and the lowest was 60.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, like a grizzled extra scurrying out of the bar just before the climactic final shootout in a grade B Hollywood Western, Bud dropped a dollar onto the table and hurriedly split. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seventh grade, I drew fifty-six posters to help Morgan protest the school’s racist Thanksgiving play. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Fine. We’ll do your idea, then,” Kim said, and when we got a B minus, she seemed to gloat about our mediocre grade. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty pupils, ranging in age from five to nineteen and in grades from primary to high school, were crowded into one room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since most of the students were transient and many had behavior problems, the curriculum was designed more to keep us out of trouble than on grade level. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Instead she continued to pretend that her son was doing fine, that his grades were good and his conduct was improving. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher kind of looked like Mrs. Franklin from fourth grade. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

His grades weren’t great, but that wasn’t the point. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Only once did he receive a grade lower than B: an F, in high school physics. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ward says if I keep pulling up all my other grades the way I’ve pulled up my grade in English, I should be able to get into a decent college when I graduate. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep cutting school if you want to get decent grades,” I say. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I saw that movie only a few weeks before I entered first grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The record book listed his growth, weight, speed, strength, and grades in National Socialist tests. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I read it when I was in fifth grade, and I loved it. Now there’s a book for kids your age.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid your grades were the lowest of the seven.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Auggie was walking down the hallways like some cool dude, getting high-fived by all the jocks in the upper grades. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We’d watched a bunch of movies and talked nonstop about what seventh grade would be like, and Audrey had given me countless manicures. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had finished grading Rhonda’s paper and was concentrating on the nearly empty jar of pickles, trying to fish out the last one. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixth grade has been rough for her. She used to go to a religious school. Less than a hundred kids in all the grades.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She taught fourth grade during the school year and worked the video store in the summer—her parents owned it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Through it all he stayed in school and earned good grades. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now that we're in fourth grade, we have tests, and for our next test we have to memorize fifteen different people who helped map the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And then in eighth grade, I had this girlfriend. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Smack in the middle of the season, star linebackers and star quarterbacks were suddenly lost to the team because of a grade below 70 in algebra or English or biology. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet here is Aimee Polloch, my friend since first grade, marching through our front door as loud as a summer crow. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I had to get decent grades, show the college world I was worth its time. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of my freshman year, I received good grades in all subjects except English, even though I had worked the hardest in it. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

By fourth grade, I was an almost every day. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, in the fall, Adria would be starting ninth grade at a public high school that was half an hour away. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the grits who put up road signs in the South never got past second grade.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured if he worked at it—and Lord, had he worked—he could be the fastest runner in the fifth grade when school opened up. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Also, if the test prevents poor students from advancing without merit, they won’t clog up the higher grades and slow down good students. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These kids have probably been together since first grade. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Starting from kindergarten, they learned of the black man’s glorious history and from the third grade they studied the black man’s original language, Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of the time in fourth grade when Bethany Williams had said her poncho was “really cool” before dissolving into mean- spirited giggles with the other girls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It’s your present for finishing the eighth grade.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

While kids like my daughter were piling up grades and accomplishments, Jesse was joining a gang, dabbling in drugs, battling Mormons, school administrators, and conformity. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for a while I didn’t worry about eighth grade. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was back in third grade and Mrs. McNulty, our teacher, had stepped out of the class for a smoke or something and bam! Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I had finally gotten comfortable and learned everybody's name in first grade. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Branwell told The Ancestors that Tina had started school without knowing a word of English and was the Illinois state spelling champion when she was in fourth grade. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade and I had a little speech to say at my graduation ceremony—I liked that. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you can look at this picture and not have to have your memory of fifth grade tarnished,” she said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The letters and numbers are neat and careful, like they were drawn by a child expecting to be graded. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Soon the vanquished seventh grade chose sides; they would cheer for grade six. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

T was the only one who knew the truth about how I broke my wrist in seventh grade. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Today was the first day of eighth grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That note, it turned out—which by now had been quoted or read aloud by half the grade—was Maya’s first ticket to a kind of popularity she’d never experienced before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

You're thinking, yeah right, the goon is barely out of seventh grade, who does he think he is? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was a junior now, but back when he and Cherie were in ninth grade they ditched school all the time, wandering through the city with their friends, looking for fun, courting trouble. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I calculated my grade point average, 3.77, and prayed and hoped that my counselor was right. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was the end of the school day, and the daily trials of fourth grade had exhausted her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

David Oshiro was in the eleventh grade when his brother Robert came home on leave from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For his hard work, Shin earned a recommendation from his grade leader that allowed him to leave the dam site for four overnight visits to his father. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I wish my classmates would get it together and pull up their grades. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You need good grades if you’re going to get into a competitive PhD program.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s all about being in fourth grade now. You know, a rat? Third grade angels, fourth grade rats? So I’m not an angel anymore.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth grade’s violin performance had only just started, and already Alice was squirming in her seat next to me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

First, our students would be allowed to start at Central High School, which meant grades ten through twelve. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He can't afford a bad grade—or a bad mark—in his Party record book, because that would keep him from getting a good job later on. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting right between Ellie, my best friend from first grade, and Maya, my other best friend from lower school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Each of the thousand trains that entered and left the city did so at grade level. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are three hundred kids in sixth grade alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Yawning, I answered his questions about my date of birth and grade in school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If Michael Sanders was in the same grade as my brother, then next year he’d be at least eighteen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

When I was in the fourth grade, I started going upstairs to the junior high school library to check out the Black Stallion series. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mm. I wrote a report about moas in grade school. I thought they were the neatest thing.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

What college is going to take you with grades like this? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat stiff and tense in the backseat as if I was being graded on posture. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reported that kids in other grades sometimes did a double take when they saw them, but everyone was nice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At the very least I should show them that I can speak their language, so they don’t think I’m a complete moron who is almost thirteen and still in the second grade. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I loved to read, probably the result of the unique education I received from the Coalwood School teachers known as the “Great Six,” a corruption of the phrase “grades one through six.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean—?” I didn’t get a chance to finish the thought, because he was already flagging down a very dazed eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“What will your father think? You know we don’t want you kids dating. Especially not in grade school.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Within days we had gone from twenty-seven girls in our grade to ten. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I feel a hard fist in my chest because what person out there don’t remember they first- grade teacher? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure how long it will take to finish; I’m in the second semester of eighth grade, so I only have weekends. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade is probably pretty rocky for lots of kids. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Lucy was in eleventh grade by then and she hadn’t been so lucky. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For the first time in her life she had been getting pretty good grades in math, and now her record was going to be mined—all because of Ken. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name was DeNice, and she looked too young to be in the tenth grade. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Our sixth grade teacher, who liked to explain things to children, let us read our files. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought they would make me move all the way to Arizona and go to a new school right after starting eighth grade. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe not right now, not this minute—it was the middle of the school year—-but I could wait until I finished eleventh grade. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“None of the girls in the sixth grade believe that Ben’s on the team. They say they never heard of him.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the summer before seventh grade, NYU’s creative writing program has been my dream. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So I get Miss Saunders’s grade book out of the desk. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even though Becca was still two grades behind me, at least Marissa and I would be going to the same high school that fall. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He listed all of his papers graded as he thought the various committee members would grade them; he listed all of his papers with the grades they properly deserved. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the administration said, “If you don’t give these students grades, they will all fail,” Morrie had a solution: “Let’s give them all A’s.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poems and short stories I wrote, expressing sorrow and loneliness, were awarded high grades. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting good grades was always expected from us, due to the schools that we attended. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now, in order to be promoted, every student in third, sixth, and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score on the standardized, multiple-choice exam known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But then again, in sixth grade, Jase promised not to punch my arm if I ate a live earthworm, so I ate a live earthworm and then he punched me in the face. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Okay, it was a big cafeteria, but I’d been working my way up to that position since the very first day of sixth grade. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“We still have spring break together! And I haven't missed a spring break ‘Besties Weekend’ since eighth grade, when I got that cold!” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Katherine usually stayed in the schoolhouse, grading papers and such, while Sam worked on the roof. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“No, not her. Someone else from our grade.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"This is entirely inappropriate of me. Almost as inappropriate as a nun offering counsel regarding the deaths of a spouse and a child. Marin is getting excellent grades. Marin is an excellent student." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For example, the election for eighth grade president was coming up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If this is the case, then we have a pretty good clue as to why her students are in need of inflated grades in the first place: they have a bad teacher. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My mother only went up to the sixth grade because it was not the custom for a woman to get an education. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except they don’t need to because their grades are already beyond an A. I think PPC had to invent a new grading system for them and Maddie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But not one who might be in seventh or eighth grade or even high school. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were chosen to integrate Central High all those years ago on the basis of grades, past performance, and behavior. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But at KIPP, by the end of fifth grade, many of the students call math their favorite subject. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jenkins cut her off, to say: “Our school, however, has a policy not to put brothers and sisters in the same grade. Do you want to be in Sammy’s grade, Maybeth?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

During third grade, a man in a black trench coat had stalked me on the playground. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather had all the books sent to me, and she made sure I was keeping pace with what all the public school kids in my grade were doing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was nine and still in the second grade. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years later, he enrolled in first grade—for free, because his mom taught there—at the Kalman School, merely one year younger than most of his classmates. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

One hour being my only free time until I brought those grades up. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It's a warm day and I'm a teenager and I'm happy and I'm wearing that great pair of red corduroys I had in eleventh grade. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Before I was led to my third grade class, Miguelito and I agreed to meet on the playground after school and walk home together. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The best thing about being eighth grade president was definitely the checks Mr. Kasigi had given me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Here he was in fifth grade, near the end of his very first language arts class with Mrs. Granger, and Nick could feel a homework assignment coming the way a farmer can feel a rainstorm. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to think Amá sent me here because I was getting bad grades. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’ve made the same wish every day since fourth grade and it hasn’t come true yet.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’s in seventh grade like me, and he and his dad have a good spot at the end of the row, so that when they look out the window on one side it’s all trees. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“This slide project is going to count as twenty-five percent of your final grade so I want the slides labeled with your name, class, and—” My hands must have been sweaty. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Third grade, we did a study unit. Lenape first settled what we call New York.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Despite my terrible grades and our parents' strict rules, junior year in Flushing has turned out pretty nicely. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, the whole seventh grade sat in the auditorium and watched the same Magic School Bus cartoons over and over, except for the lucky homeroom that won the rock-paper-scissors tournament and escaped to the gym. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So I got put in the dumb class in fifth grade at P.S. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to see to it that each of my children have three,” said Evy, “grade school, high school and college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, she said so in class. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I guess because Lynn was so smart and it had seemed easy for her to get good grades, I never noticed how hard she worked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Strict parents, bad grades, or stupid boyfriends—my friends' complaints seemed so unimportant and meaningless compared to what Martin was experiencing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

First grade was when I discovered eye control; with my seeing I could shrink the teacher down to a height of one inch, gesticulating and mouthing on the horizon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind buzzed with thoughts of her sister and Benny and eighth grade dances and long pale-pink dresses and corsages. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But then my grades were never that great to start with. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They can’t stop me from handling fifth grade the way I planned. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

My parents are pleased, but they’re not like other parents when it comes to grades. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was the best basketball player in the third grade, and probably even fourth grade too. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That was two years ago, in third grade, when me and Sneaky snuck into the cafeteria to get extra chocolate milk cartons. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Faizah was only in eighth grade but was already taking private fencing lessons with Coach Mustilli in anticipation of being on the high school team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, a bunch of kids including Margo and Chuck and me were forced by our parents to take ballroom dancing lessons at the Crown School of Humiliation, Degradation, and Dance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I shuffled forward to look at the grade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In seventh grade he had broken his leg in practice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d tell me that seventh grade is way too young to think about boys. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you go right down to the office and ask?” one of the eighth grade boys asks Ms. Rochambeau. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I think Rosa’s as happy as I am about my grade. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But first, we have to get you into the fourth grade. Deal?” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been together since third grade, when we both showed up for the school Halloween parade wearing the Eleventh Doctor’s tweed jacket and red fez hat. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It’s been a few years since I engaged in urban highway driving, and I give myself high grades for fearless and agile navigation, but eventually the afternoon traffic defeats me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they didn’t even remember how disgusted Emma had been by some of the girls in third grade last year, who went around talking about rainbows and unicorns and butterflies and magic. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Last August when I was visiting my grandmother Draper in Florida, notice came that my homeroom teacher for grade six would be Mrs. Olinski. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Spring semester of eighth grade brought me into Mr. da Silva’s English class. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I completed sixth grade, I weighed over 200 pounds. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wall was my bad grades in school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade president was a star now. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“All I did was get promoted to fourth grade.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the most popular girl in seventh grade. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped on some shoes, snuck past Mom, who was watching TV in the living room while grading tests, and went outside. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Right. If you want to study something else, I can help too. How’s your grade in calculus?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then one day in third grade I attacked back. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t care that we are not at my house like we planned, and I don’t care that you still use a sippy cup at night, even though we are almost in second grade. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I was walking out to the Mess the other night, I overheard two girls, probably from seventh or eighth grade, from Block 3—another desi block. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ever since she’d gotten her own cell phone at the start of sixth grade, she was constantly on her phone, messaging other people and checking celebrity sites. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I remembered how, when JT was in the third grade, he fell out of his tree house and broke his leg. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents encourage him and are terribly proud when he skips a grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Now that right there is a meritorious feat — most of my friends stopped doing volunteer household chores in about fourth grade. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There weren’t that many of us in the same grade,” I mutter. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In eighth grade I read several hundred books, the tides of which I still can recall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d worked my butt off to get good grades and become a nationally ranked fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lorenz from the elementary school brought me over to the middle school on the last day of fifth grade so I could meet her friend. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“We were invited. By your tutee, the most popular girl in our grade, no less.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She had been friends with my mom since grade school. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I make good grades in English and history,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those visits from Officer Friendly in second grade paid off. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. But for real, I did. Fifth grade. It was before I was on meds.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“And what are her grades like? Is she failing?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"It was the sixth grade. It was nothing." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want me to be afraid of getting a bad grade, as long as I was learning. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were, he guessed, single travellers graded and placed there by the unerring judgment of the restaurant attendants. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even when they ask about our grades, and we tell them we have good grades, they usually say something like, “Well, that’s good. I’m glad you’re not distracted by them boys.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was a big part of the class grade, and Tommie had been worrying about it since the day their teacher assigned it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

By fifth grade, I gave up on friends. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“We must pray to the Virgin,” my mother said, and although Deborah objected, saying nobody prayed for a grade promotion, my mother gathered us around the Virgin’s altar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your last quiz was an improvement, but you still need to do the extra credit project to pull your grade up. You need at least a B to get into physics next year.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He knows because he has a big sister in third grade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bad grades meant no television; not eating my dinner meant no dessert. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I never got like this at school in fifth grade. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My midterm grades went down and so did my spirit. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I never thought being in seventh grade would mean so many death threats. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And in fourth grade, he actually stuck his pen into the electrical socket while sitting on the carpet, got zapped, and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah. I'm even more grounded now. Probably through the entire eighth grade.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In her notebook, where she designs her dot games, she had three rows of tiny Post-its with the names of all the boys in the grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tate had thrown in a remark about how I might have to transfer back to Carver if my grades didn’t turn around. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cap Anderson was the ultimate eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All through the second half of fifth grade, Mom had invited Jenna to our house for dinner and sometimes to sleep over. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Teachers started treating me different than other kids when I was in the first grade. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Friday after the last class of the day, halfway through tenth grade, halfway through basketball season. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I'm finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice was about to sail into eighth grade, which put her in shooting distance of high school. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Slam, I would like to work with you to get your math grades up,” the guy said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Preparing the site would require heavy construction, grading, and converting cow paths into four-lane highways. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Three kids from Roy’s grade got on the bus and, upon spotting Dana, wisely scrambled for seats up front. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd played baseball with him and his brothers when I was in grade school. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But it all changed when I graduated from sixth grade and enrolled in a junior high that accommodated several different elementary schools. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My grades were average at best, and eventually I learned to live with my father's disappointment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“And she cares about me. Like in fourth grade when she arranged for me to work with Conner on our science fair project, because she knew I was interested in the same thing he was.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sixth had once been the top grade in elementary school, and was now the bottom grade in middle school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in the third grade, Doc Lassiter came up to the school with an eye chart, and all of the children in my class were put in a line to read it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sixth grade is over and the nice, lazy summer stretches ahead. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The average score became an agent’s overall grade. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was said in the upper grades that Mrs. Myers had never been seen to smile except on the first and the last day of school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We know that the title was “Chief of the Cryptographic and Physical Security Unit,” and that the position was graded G.S. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I know, sweetie. If you got serious about your schoolwork. And if your grades improved. But you got a C on your last math test.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“That we make all As in ninth grade,” I whispered. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t want me to go through the things she went through when she skipped grades. She was always excluded from groups, people made fun of her....” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was unfair that the coach gave better grades to football players, and he was just trying to even things out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of putting down my usual grades—I had been an A student—Kathy wrote in C grades. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Albert de Mesquita came from the Montessori School and skipped a grade. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Seventh grade. Six more years at Middlefield. I suggest you learn to get along.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’ve made a wish every single day since fourth grade,” I said. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ever since first grade you and Coby have been as tight as a pair of shin guards. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I held my job, managed my own money, kept passing grades, and stayed out of deep trouble. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Char says the only reason she lets me hang with her in the first place is to get her grades up. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Like, just at the end of fifth grade.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Keep it up. Good grades are the only things that count for a girl. Tell your mother I’ll meet her at the game. That’s an order I expect to be carried out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m getting good grades, working his stupid full-time job, and saving for college. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I did remember the first grade teacher calling out during a test, while students marked X’s on a girl or a boy or a dog, which I covered with black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With great relief, Helmuth finishes his final thesis, turns it in, and on the last day of school, Herr Meins stands in front of the class, grasping the graded papers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had loved soccer from that very first kick in second grade. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. God, I’m a genius. And her grades were good. And I don’t recall her talking about killing herself.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom nodded, then she explained, “This is more of an academic conference. Erik’s grades have slipped.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read aloud in first grade, though, and heard the barest whisper with little squeaks come out of my throat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distribution of class schedules was more complicated than usual this year, for Professor McGonagall needed first to confirm that everybody had achieved the necessary O.W.L. grades to continue with their chosen N.E.W.T.s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sixth grade began to find out that April had a way of making life interesting. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty sure I would be the only twelve-year-old entering the ninth grade; I wouldn't turn thirteen until the third week of school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If not Allah, who else could have put such wisdom into that little humble lamb of a man from the Georgia fourth grade and sawmills and cotton patches. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And for a student with your grades your attendance is atrocious!” he concluded. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Benny’s been gone since the end of fifth grade. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Like our typing teacher, Mr. Coe said he would grade us on speed and accuracy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

An investigation of an arts infusion program on creative thinking, academic achievement, affective functioning, and arts appreciation of children at three grade levels. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I stared at it like it was the wrong grade marked on the bottom of my paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had some of these books since I was in fourth grade,” I tell her. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The three of them are all in the sixth grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Sixth graders go to the right. Everyone come in. Come in. Good morning. Go to your staging areas. Fifth graders to the left, sixth grade to the right. . .” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I brought up every miserable commendation and award I’d won since the eighth grade. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Of all my subjects in the eleventh grade, chemistry was my favorite, because Miss Riley was our teacher. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In October the other pupils elected me Student Council representative for the fourth grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, when I told a teacher that I intended to read the New Testament over the summer, I did not get the praise I expected. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet before my eyes, it had turned into the eighth grade president’s coming-out party. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She made mine in the shape of a 7 for seventh grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He bought the warehouse from the city for a hundred dollars when I was in third grade. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were one grade below me, but in terms of popularity they were three grades above me. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The teachers have been prepping us about this all year long, so all the kids in the grade are excited about it—except for me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“She’s been studying martial arts since the second grade. She was on the Municipal Children’s Martial Arts Team. Their demonstration was even filmed.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was only in second grade, but already the kids in my class didn’t like fairy tales much anymore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother sent me an email. She said you hadn’t been to middle school before. But don’t worry; it’s a new year for everyone. Except me. This is my 15th year in 7th grade.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"When the train reached the summit of the mountain, he was no longer with us. And as the train dropped down the grade he had departed. "It had become a veritable train of sorrow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her Dad and Brannon wanted to look up all the children in the second grade, but she made them turn around and go back on the Atlanta road again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If you do participate and complete the two-year program—keeping your grade point average at a three point five or above—you are awarded a scholarship to any Oregon college,” Mrs. Parker tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, Bridge could see Jamie, hair in his eyes, wearing the Spider-Man pajamas he loved all the way through fourth grade. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I learned the entire second grade in advance just by listening to Annie— she was a year older than me—and by hearing Mama Sweetie read from her Bible and her Webster’s dictionary. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

You don’t get a lot of homework in fourth grade, and I didn’t have anything to do except make mini snowmen with my earwax. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And the voice coming out of the laptop was saying, “The kidnapped children are in second and fourth and sixth grade.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All I wanted was to start the sixth grade with a sixth-grade look. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of fifth grade, there was a formal graduation ceremony. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In second grade, at the age of seven, we were considered by the Church to have reached the age of reason; we were supposed capable of distinguishing good from evil. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to remember I was in sixth grade and not in eighth grade, and I was not the hero who was supposed to be going to the rescue all the time. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Shop classes. Try to get good grades. Graduate. Learn, I guess.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

That was in the middle of eighth grade. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I was a seventh grade student at Finley Avenue Elementary School, Mr. A. G. Gaston held a spelling bee for Birmingham’s black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You've got a real talent for science, and I don’t want to see your grade suffer. Think about it, okay?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sammy said Art had been called that since first grade so he had had plenty of time to grow accustomed to his nickname. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when Mr. Tate, the principal at my new school, started talking about me laying low for the season until I got my grades together I was like seriously turned out. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

School was a distant memory; Tony hadn’t seen the inside of a classroom on a regular basis since eighth grade. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She had drifted through every grade like that, never bothering to get to know anyone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I noticed this when I started ninth grade. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I still remember the day in sixth grade when my teacher, whose name was Mr. Lawson, caught me studying that map of the Pacific when I should have been doing my math. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin was one of the boys who had made a practice of beating me up in grade school every time there was a strike. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning in January of seventh grade and continuing into the following August, my previously frozen body underwent a growth spurt of uncommon proportions and unforeseeable consequences. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nope. Sorry. The grade is all yours. If I told you it wasn’t for a grade, you wouldn’t try your best. A grade is your motivation.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy enrolled Wendell in the ninth grade class at Carver High School, where he worked, even though it lay outside our school zone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then, at age five and three quarters, I was registered for the first grade at Gibbs Elementary School. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Three grades times two classes times twenty kids is one hundred and twenty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He raises his eyebrows and shrugs like he can’t explain the coincidence that is my math grade. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade will be the year of earmuffs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I passed, much to my satisfaction, with the highest grades recorded from Rass. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the kids were older than I. They were in the second or third grade at school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. But you should still do your best. You learned some of this stuff in 6th grade, and some of it you probably have not been taught.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By eleventh grade, after more than a dozen schools, Horan was barely passing his classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In third grade, he and I spent about a week convincing Alice Evans that velour was a kind of animal fur, and she refused to wear it for the rest of the year. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Although the oldest Jackson had to be in the eleventh or twelfth grade. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Acting on Ben’s instructions, she came back for the transcript of her grades a week later and met him by arrangement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

No papers, no grades, no test scores, not so much as an index card. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Took him until second grade to realize he was spelling Mississippi. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The last time I got in trouble—for lying about what grade I got on a test—my parents took my phone away for a week. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Yeah. She's not grading us all together anymore. We all are responsible for different parts of the project. That way it's fair, y'know?" Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Neither one of us had a proper home of our own growing up—you orphaned and me leaving home after sixth grade. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My parents are always yellin’ at me to improve my grades ’cause I’ll never get into college, but then my parents yell at me all the time. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed there until I was six, at which time I started first grade. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You know what grades you get, so what kind?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Now that Mustafa is both playing and coaching basketball, and getting high enough grades, Baba’s a bit more relaxed. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade he told me glumly, as we stood in line in front of the auditorium door, waiting to go in for Friday square dancing, that I was plain. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Cal and Aron were assigned to the seventh grade because of their age, and they learned every shadow of its picture—Laocoon completely wrapped in snakes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right? He kept it by his bed until eighth grade.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

In the 1870s, the Mooneys moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Fannie went to school, learned to read and write, and finished the eighth grade. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I had been there with Holly since first grade, so I didn’t really have any other schools to compare it to. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They’re also computer geniuses who like to brag that they could “hack into this pathetic excuse for a secure network” anytime to change their grades. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My pop used to sit him down every other week so they could have talks about his grades and his bad behavior in school and his choice of friends. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was going into ninth grade, to a new school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When he was in third grade, his mother had made certain that the teacher who dared give Charles a B on his papier-mâché volcano was fired. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought about him going into my mom’s room when she was little and hitting my mom and holding up her report card and saying that her bad grades would never happen again. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. But the principal has explained that in America everyone is assigned according to age. Ten years old means fifth grade. And we must observe the American rules, mustn’t we?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, Ms. Tannenbaum checks her grade book and turns to me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He goes on about how hard he works and how he’ll work for the seventh grade so that we’re represented in the way that we deserve. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Harding finished grading a few papers, then came over to my desk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Shin saw his grade leader approaching with a shovel, he initially expected some help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sleeping well and his grades, which were never very good, got even worse. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t lie to me, girl. You in first grade—you ain’t got no homework—’specially at Christmas vacation. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of the senior girls have already talked to most of us in our grade. They've been super helpful. They've explained why we don't need to get all paranoid.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She failed first grade by pretending to be stupid, but the setback didn't seem to bother her. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In 1996, the Chicago Board of Education enforced new rules saying that students had to make at least a 6.8 grade level in reading and math to move on to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman is covering the grade wall with a mural. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had had a tumultuous childhood and quit school in the seventh grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As hungry as I was, all I could think was that they made you dance with a boy in the sixth grade. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I show up in the middle of sixth grade, all the friend groups have been set for years. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I sat there for a few minutes, staring at the back of Renee Albert, who’s the hottest girl in the eighth grade, trying to concentrate. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hot-glued another teacher’s grade book together when he told her sister she was missing too much class. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No problem. I mean, I’d keep the grade if I could.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Then, in the second semester of the seventh grade, I was elected class president. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered for a second whether kids in grade two would be tested on how to spell the plural of “potato.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The first time I dated her was when we were in the eighth grade. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shakes her head and goes back to grading the exams, red checks or Xs next to each question. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained patiently how some of the sixth- grade classes moved around for math and reading and science, but Miss Harris kept the same group all day. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I recall correctly, we spend the rest of our time at the Candy Kitchen that Monday talking about who are the meanest teachers in seventh grade and who are the best. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Look at the first column, which measures what happens over the summer after first grade. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“And didn’t he say all that weird stuff to your mom in second grade?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

For me, the story started the day before the beginning of eighth grade. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Okay, young lady, if you’re done parading around like Miss Preteen Sampaguita, then it’s bedtime. Last day of seventh grade tomorrow!” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, so matter-of-factly, like she was singing a song in grade school, like nothing at all mattered to her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was in fifth grade at the time, and filled with an odd sense of bravery, so I told him I didn’t want to go to college, I just wanted to build things. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For weeks it had been open season on the eighth grade president, but he hung in there. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

By fun, Ms. Udell was referring to the play version of Charlotte’s Web that the two fourth-grade classes would perform for the younger grades. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Craig, who was in the first grade, was already making trips downstairs for weekly lessons on Robbie’s upright and returning relatively unscathed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The news spread like wildfire that the eighth grade president was down again. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glued to the bottom level of the building’s east wing, which was where the third grade classroom had been, which was where Wash was looking for Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was marked with a B+, the best grade she’d ever gotten. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ted was in his third year in pre-med, his choice, he told me, ever since he dissected a fetal pig in the sixth grade. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn't even been friends in the sixth grade. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Miller is grading papers at his desk. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I started sixth grade, the other kids made fun of Brian and me because we were so skinny. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

T was the only one who knew the truth about how I broke my wrist in seventh grade. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas and I had been so excited to start seventh grade together. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He grew a few inches in eighth grade, and that’s about when he started listening to good music and not wearing those giant wolf face T-shirts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The lower-school kids have just had lunch, and now they’re outside playing in the small field, just the way we used to in fifth grade. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As my year in the tenth grade at Big Creek dwindled to days, Mr. Turner held one of his few command performances in the school auditorium. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Clear thinking requires a command of the English language, and fifth grade is the ideal time for every girl and boy to acquire an expanded vocabulary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first three weeks of seventh grade, I’d learned one thing above all else: A person can become invisible simply by staying quiet. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Fifth grade, so eleven. Bottom line, the pictures of guys did nothin’ for me, but the pictures of women? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He scored an 80 on the six-week exam, and with the transfer grades that he received from Bates he managed to pass algebra II for the six weeks with a 72. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin’s second demand was that he be named grade leader at school, a position that would allow him to work less and not be beaten as often. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His test scores were high enough to make it to the next grade, but not high enough to make a legitimate argument that he’d learned anything. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But he got his nickname because one time, in third grade, Maddie and I were playing on the jungle gym at recess when Callum came over and began to taunt us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was not technically a field—it was more of a lawn, really, and there was a slight grade to it—but that was where Coach Fortes took us to play football/American soccer. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I made the mistake of inviting them to a sleepover in seventh grade. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t matter to Mrs. Granger if you weren’t in fifth grade, because the way she saw it, sooner or later, you would be. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in first grade, Kelly and George had decided that saying one-tivo-three-zoot was a lot more fun than saying good-bye. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But then Andrew would remember how Sasha had visited him when he was hospitalized for depression two years before, just after starting ninth grade. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“My grades weren’t good enough to get into calculus class.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I want to be in fifth grade again. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Teachers confronted with evidence of a student’s inadequate comprehension found it easiest to dispense a grade that moved a student toward meaningless graduation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She agreed, provided that he promised to get good grades. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two blocks were turned into Manzanar High, and a third block of fifteen barracks was set up to house the elementary grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of all his hard work to maintain good grades, his athletic awards, and his student leadership, and now his hopes for a wonderful senior year were dashed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, I’d miss the eighth grade dance, which all the seventh graders were already gearing up for. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe with all this technology, in a ship that traveled across the galaxy, the same flint lighter from my seventh grade chemistry lab is what they have on the ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she was in first grade, she had been the worst reader in the whole class. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Most of the walls are blank, but there’s a sign for each grade. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I got better grades on our tests, but he was sure he was smarter than me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I did want to get good marks in school, but they were never of major importance to me, except in the sense of “winning” the best grade in a subject. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A little while later, as I was chatting with the former surgeon, who told me he and Baba had been classmates in eighth grade, Soraya pulled on my sleeve. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the name of choice back in third grade when I ate peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwiches every day for lunch. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it came time for me to start second grade I could already read and write and spell and even do some arithmetic. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I approach Mr. Griffiths with dread, ready to get a lecture or, worse, a failing grade. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In the second grade, you can buy your lunch if you bring money to school. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, if we compare the grades that the minority and nonminority students get in law school, we see that the white students do better. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I was curious to see what grade Selena got on her tree—an A+, probably—so I walked along the back of the room, looking at the trees, in search of it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I lost this power in sixth grade for lack of practice, the teacher a generous man. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to World War I in seventh grade— who knew there had been a war with the whole world? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One rainy day back in second grade her mom was so strung out on drugs that she couldn’t unlock the door to let Fuchsia into their apartment after school. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was just a few days after seventh grade started, which was just a few days after Franny’s funeral. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We’ve been friends since forever, but super best friends since third grade, when we got partnered for a group project. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know much about Mercer Day aside from their reputation as a last-resort private school for rich kids with not-so-hot grades or who had been kicked out of other prep schools. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They’ve liked each other since sixth grade, and if your feelings can survive the awkwardness of middle school you should stop playing around and go out. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Ever since backpacks were invented, no one—ever—in the entire school system, grades K through twelve, carries a book bag, especially a leather one. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pete was every bit of fourteen, yet he was still stuck in the seventh grade. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the second grade, I was intimately familiar with and capable of discussing in some detail Tom Sawyer and Uncle Tom's Cabin. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One time when I was in third grade, I went with Scrappy to the cemetery to see where his daddy was buried. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I used to think everyone saw these colors; then in third grade I figured out it was just me.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The way was downhill, an unmistakable slight grade; the crust was perfect for skis. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once we was past the train, we were down below the grade and then we run along the track. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was an almost in third grade too, when my poem wasn’t picked for the wall for Parents’ Night. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d say, “Please stick to the prompts or I will have to give you an incomplete grade.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What? He’s a WHAT? He’s in eighth grade.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe on Grands Day, they can come as special guests for the younger grades. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Fact: No sixth grade team had ever defeated a seventh grade team. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the same grade and had been neighbors practically our whole lives. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In grade school Shin was taught to stand up straight, bow to his teachers, and never look them in the eye. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Oh sure, he looked over his spelling words on Thursday nights, and there had been a few short book reports in fourth grade, but other than that, nothing. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those two girls blabbed it all over the seventh grade.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We all did a Holocaust unit in fifth grade at Chokecherry Elementary. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Gordo, that huge Spanish dude that taught us music in the fourth grade?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the lowest grade he received for the six-week period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite good performance reviews, a P-l rating was out of his reach, because the grade required a bachelor’s degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They weren’t trying to change grades or cheat. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You must not remember sixth grade,” Lee Lee says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had gotten that from her dad when she was in second grade. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Allen knew Phillip was something special in eighth grade, when he had broken his arm during the first defensive series of a game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they were in grade school, close-order drill was as natural as breathing and as hateful as hell. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were the “It” couple of our grade. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And then James wrote home from college after his first semester and said, “My grades are looking great, because when I came here I already knew how to put first things first.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the same kids I’m with now were together in second grade with a teacher named Mrs. Tracy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that Matt had excellent grades and good manners. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Technically, he’s top banana as president of the eighth grade, even though he only ran for office to impress Suzy Kraft, who dumped him anyway, the day after the election. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It had fewer corrections than my previous papers, but the grade was only a disappointing C. I stuck it in my binder, and for the rest of the class I had a hard time concentrating. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and thought to myself, Maybe this grade isn’t so bad after all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are graded by how many knots they have crammed in every square centimeter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Okay, there’re differences between far past and recent past. That’s what Mr. Schmidt wants us to say. So, let’s say it. He’s the teacher. He’s grading us.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Liyana was in seventh grade, her class had a story by Saroyan in their textbook. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

C.P.’s father, Paul Ellis, had gone to work as a mill hand when he dropped out of school in the fourth grade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were asked to write the letter grade we felt we deserved, then write a brief comment on why we thought we deserved that grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone stared—especially at Dari, because he was usually so serious in class—and I felt half embarrassed and half proud, because I had the weirdest friends in the seventh grade. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t it be cool if somebody could invent a bubble- talking machine before fifth grade starts in a couple of weeks? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He’s trying to tell me he remembers that one time we danced at the masquerade ball back in sixth grade, just like I do! From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His grades fell dramatically as the burden began to wear him down. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mom is forgetting that Deb and I have only been sort of friends since third grade. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When Molly transferred to Mount Desert Island High School last year, in tenth grade, most of the kids seemed to go out of their way to avoid her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The grades on these papers are just between us. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He used to be in my class before he got put in the other fifth- grade room because Mrs. Brook says it’s better that way. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bedrock lay 125 feet below grade, too deep for workers to reach with any degree of economy or safety using the construction methods available in the 1880s. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Even in fourth grade, middle-class children appeared to be acting on their own behalf to gain advantages. They made special requests of teachers and doctors to adjust procedures to accommodate their desires.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As minorities, we were the most visible, but it became clear that special dispensations were made to admit all kinds of students whose grades or accomplishments might not measure up to the acknowledged standard. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Trying to help her memory, Roberto added, “He also bought me a pair of shoes when he saw mine were worn out. I was in the sixth grade.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the fall of 1994 when we spent our days on the same campus for the first time since attending grade school together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Brad says this like everyone learns it in first grade. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Your group skills will be reflected in the grading.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You’ve already outgrown a lot of your fall clothes from seventh grade. Once school starts you’ll be too busy to get anything.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wish school would start so I can be in the second grade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Nicknames like "Shrimp" and "Small Fry" haunted me through grade school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I'd just started seventh grade and Newcharlie was repeating ninth, but he didn't seem to care one way or the other. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

At the second bell, the fifth grade, as always, scrambled to their feet. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I repeated this over and over until I found the best grade for my ramp: 30 degrees. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially that he remembers a vocabulary word from sixth grade. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He teaches social studies, grades seven to twelve, and he never tires of talking about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mama forgave me as usual, and I focused instead on the coming graduation from the sixth grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The third visit to the shrink, and the last straw, came in grade six. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson took a moment to brag: Lexie’s plans for Yale, Trip’s latest lacrosse game, Moody’s good grades. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, sixth grade: Tiny was playing third base, and I was at first. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

So I get my lunch and sit down at a secluded cafeteria table with the most popular boy in the seventh grade. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We tear through as much of it as we can, James helping me with whatever math he remembers from eighth grade, tossing me peanut butter cups when I get a right answer. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But my counselor says I have to be well-rounded to get into a good college. Good grades aren’t everything.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When she was in second grade, she and another girl made a pact that they would both become doctors, and she held up her end of the bargain. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By the sixth week of sixth grade, Ms. Hussey still wasn’t a disappointment. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The books used a “graded” curriculum with successively more complex songs and exercises, and combined author-composed songs in these books with folk and classical material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He was in sixth grade and had grown four inches in the past year. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Rules were for the classroom, where teachers would say things like Participation is part of your grade. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Andy didn’t make very good grades, but it seemed to Gerald that he just wanted attention at home, even attention for bad grades. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in the sixth grade at Hazelwood Middle School.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I brought home my report card at the end of the third grade, with all the bad marks circled in red, Mama was very upset. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With flunking grades and no skills, Louie had no chance for a scholarship. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I am in math class, sometime during the winter of sixth grade. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What matters now, as we near the end of sixth grade, is that freezing urine is easy. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I had no idea they had treated him that way because I was left in class to watch the carnage with the rest of the students in my grade. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I asked him if he used to take a lunch box to school when he was in fourth grade. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in that group for the last eight years, since first grade—my mother made sure of it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mind runs through everything we learned about Nazi Germany these past three weeks of tolerance education, and during the Holocaust unit in fifth grade. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When these sixth-grade students reached seventh grade, they averaged 5.5—more than two grade levels below standard and even worse than they did in sixth grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I refused to give her my records of classes and grades. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was like I could feel time slowing down...feel it stopping...going backwards...back to third grade angels...second grade cats...first grade babies...little yellow tugboats bobbing in the water...bobbing...bobbing... Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't know if the second grade work would be too hard for me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was in fifth grade and I was in tenth. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Over at the eighth grade boys’ table one of them leaps out of his chair with a “YES!” and does a little dance like he just scored a touchdown. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

After working as a proofreader in the seventh grade, I’d started laying out pages in the eighth grade, and in the ninth grade I began reporting and writing articles and taking photographs. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since the beginning of fourth grade, Amanda and some of the girls in my class talk about going with this boy, Jimmy. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was even hinted that, if I kept my grades high, it would be possible for me to teach in the city school system. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who even cared about the minuses on his old conduct grades by now? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried to, back in third grade. No one believed me, remember?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In second grade, my mom took me to the theater to see R-rated films like Rain Man and Cocktail. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The week after the community meeting, Ms. Habibi and Mr. Dolan started a bunch of assemblies the whole seventh grade had to attend. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: Twig showed up in the middle of fourth grade. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I find my mom and dad in the family room, my dad listening to music on his headphones, my mom grading papers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Finn remembered a day in the third grade when one of the Rude boys had accused Finn of stealing his Swamp Thing action figure, and the boys had jumped Finn during recess. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This hallway is mainly 8th grade, but it also has the music rooms. We have band, orchestra, and chorus. Would you like to see the music rooms?” the secretary asks, sounding bored. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In tenth grade, he won a part in Blood Brothers, a musical about fraternal twins separated at birth. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Crenshaw didn’t even show up in my life until the end of first grade. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then, in third grade, I’d wandered over to the cello in music class—it looked almost human to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got one or two that maybe I could talk to, but they’re assigned to another grade level. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in two years’ time I am going to take A-level physics and get an A grade. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The school year has just ended, and on my top-secret final exams I scored the second highest in social studies and the highest in science, out of the entire eighth grade. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were just too many numbers—daily grades, weekly grades, grades for participation, grades for homework, grades for tests—all part of the bewildering Carter grading system under the School Improvement Plan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay late or they lock the cell house door. Gotta watch out for that. Nobody’s home late on Alcatraz. Nobody gets bad grades either or they chain you up,” I say. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the list came from the state eighth grade curriculum: barometer, decagon, perpendicular . Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

As eighth grade president, I was in charge of the Halloween dance, and I was giving it the Rishon treatment. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know the fourth grade that well,” I tell her. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The students start in first grade with meaningful, but not overwhelming, differences in their knowledge and ability. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

"Sonia will be a wonderful addition to our ninth grade. Unfortunately, we don't have room in our gifted track or we'd put her there." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next day was my first day of seventh grade. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I continued to struggle with Shona and now English literature, but by the end of the semester, my grades were once again the best in the class. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“How can you forget? It’s been on my head since seventh grade!” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The local papers would have a field day reporting that while I was running a principals’ conference in Las Vegas, my trusted eighth grade president was emptying my treasury. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Camp was a combined outing for grades five and seven, designed so us new kids could spend time with some of the older boys. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Sixth grade was much the same as fifth—games in the playground, unsuccessfully searching for a sport to play—until our elementary school rugby league coach, Mr. McConnell, let me help out “coaching.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I want to see how this girl’s sewing turns out. I want to see your son come back from Vietnam. I want to see if this one gets good grades. There’s so much to do.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A prison report said, “He does high grade work caring for stock, and is able to do such operations as opening of abscesses and castrating of animals.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While Nicholas went to a strapped public grade school in a perilous neighborhood, Christopher is in the gifted program of a school she handpicked on the middle- class side of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I was in fifth grade, walking to school. This guy asked for a dollar, and when I pulled out my five singles for lunch money, he punched me in the face and took it all.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of us must go to school, repeating the last grade, left unfinished. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“We’re not going to grade at all, Oliver. This is about communication. Self-expression. Not measurements.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I know. No high school. But maybe I can get in if I tell them I don’t want a diploma or any grades—that I just want the lessons.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to the top of a small grade next to the shack and watched the Carcachita disappear in the distance in a cloud of dust. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In second grade, there had been a class checkers tournament, and George and Rick had been the two best players. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She nodded with approval, then looked at the students in the lower grades. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been a big enough deal when you wore those black spike-heeled boots to school when you were in eighth grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tenth grade would be here before I knew it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The summer before first grade, seven years ago. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I skip 1 out of every 9 homework assignments in each class to keep my grades in the very low A range. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Beatty also told Mom to submit weekly lesson plans, keep her classroom tidy, and grade the homework promptly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She used the line again in the ninth grade when I wasn’t voted onto the basketball homecoming court. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The path was easier now, made of crushed gravel and graded rocks, and he cracked his whip to urge the four black stallions on faster. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I can barely keep my head up, let alone get good grades so I can get the hell out of here and go to college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The call came on a Friday evening as I was lying in bed, grading student essays. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Over the years he had passed through the various Kyu—student grades. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The summer between seventh and eighth grade, Dad put me to work stuffing envelopes for an advertising campaign he was doing to get more customers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Blake Grunwald was a grade ahead of me and played backup catcher. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of first grade, there was a ceremony where the top three students were named: Number three was announced first. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He remembers hearing about Truman’s drama director as far back as seventh grade, when he started performing in middle school shows. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

My brother hasn’t called home in a few weeks now, and Mom just keeps talking about his grades and sleeping habits and the foods he eats, and my dad keeps saying the same thing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He must’ve been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s like the fat pencils I used to use in first grade,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“See you on the other side of fifth grade!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and . . . well, pretty much everybody in the whole grade was there.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Still alive in second grade and third and fourth. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Apatan got mad if I ever mentioned tea grading at Tea Haven. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Well, your eighth grade son is afraid of a girl. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A girl hasn’t done that to me since like fourth grade. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A power-hungry dummy and the single most annoying dude in the seventh grade. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, you just gotta play your cards right. Get them grades up, and extracurricular activities are your ticket. Where you from, anyway?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like, if all the guys in the fifth grade were lined up against a wall and I got to choose anyone I wanted to hang out with, I would choose August. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I did skip third grade,” the Colonel answered. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, I was afraid that I was about to make a fool of myself and end up in seventh grade in the middle of the school year. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I attended Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, and while I had been a good student in the ninth grade, the following year I more or less dropped out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of us used to like to jump grades, because it meant making new friends and trailing behind the rest of the class until we could make up the work. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Huffing, Otto said, “Fine. What grade did I get on the last math test of the year?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She moved on to how she liked gardening, but hated harvesting the poor little plants, and how she was top in math, but had her grades lowered when she sunbathed naked on the roof. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grades and scores put me at the borderline. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grades my vocabulary quiz like everyone else. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Instead of improving by one full point between fifth and sixth grade, as would be expected, they improved by 1.7 points, nearly two grades’ worth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, she does have the best grades of anyone,” I answered, trying to sound as impartial as possible. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the yard man since my mother replaced him three years ago, and Mr. Barron had vanished from my life after eighth grade. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His family lived in Burnt Mill Creek, and when I enrolled in grade five, my family, which consisted at that time of my father and pregnant stepmother had just moved to San Francisquito Canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He tried to help with grading crayfish for size. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Been trying to ignore her *assets* since they started blooming, if you will, in seventh grade. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The last time a teacher cared so much about my academic welfare was in first grade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Good grades or not, an image began to attach itself to Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kids who did eat—including Princesse, who was in twelfth grade—got very sick, throwing up from food poisoning. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When I was in kindergarten and first grade, Bennie would slide a plastic milk crate under the counter for me to stand on so I could see the candy better. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

School opened and I began the seventh grade. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were just talking about Truth or Dare. Played out in seventh grade or still cool?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Both were in the tenth grade and both of them had turned a fine shade of scarlet during the course of Sister Loretta’s presentation. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d attended school in the real world up until the sixth grade. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was this kid I knew back in the second grade. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Sixth grade still meant that kids could begin to get inside the print and to the meaning. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In ninth grade his arm, already injured from an incident involving an all-terrain vehicle, had been shattered when he tried to throw a block. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I really knew about her was that she had the most amazing leg extension I’d ever seen, the highest scores in our grade, and she was snarky. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then I did something I actually, honestly, have not done since I was in, like, fourth grade. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before he even had time to answer, Ms. Webber looked up from the pile of papers she was grading and pointed to EJ. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Somehow she felt entitled to hound me because she’d known me since first grade. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Starting school again? What grade are you in now?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“But Mom, this is what I look like in second grade,” he’d argued, sticking his tongue into the hole where his teeth used to be just for the sheer joy of it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“To know all the finalists are from fifth grade blows me away. Way to go!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Basically the third floor is entirely the sixth grade, the second floor is the seventh grade, and the first floor is the eighth grade, with a few exceptions. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suffice it to say that, in seventh grade, Calliope found herself aligned with, taken in by, nurtured and befriended by the year’s newcomers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like some kinda hippie,” his mother had said when Brenda, who had been in seventh grade last year, described Miss Edmunds to her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I saw that she was in the fifth grade. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Getting chicken pox, both of us, in the eighth grade, and staying at your house for a week, because we couldn’t go to school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt especially hopeless and depressed when I had to take an essay test where spelling counted toward my grade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At issue, he said, was local control and the right of a school system to determine in good faith the grade of a student without interference from anyone else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grace Smeath is a year older and in the next grade up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ninth grade was seated in the worst possible place in the classroom, at the front, and to the right, away from the window. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eighth grade days flowed in their hungry path and I grew more conscious of myself; I sat in classes, bored, wondering, dreaming. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, we had a babysitter from Mama's church who wore this charm bracelet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In her shy, soft-spoken way, she helped me feel confident about my studies, and by the next progress report, my grades had returned to normal. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was the same room I had been in in the first grade when I had had Miss Scalapino. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My first year’s grades at Stuyvesant were miserable, due partially to the fact that I never studied. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the white parents against integration had children in lower grades, so the board of educations plan for integration kept changing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Congo had national finals for sixth and twelfth grades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I figured Td get a failing grade, but I didn’t care. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I was in third grade, I noticed I had two red spots about the size of a quarter, one on the left side of my stomach and another on the back of my scalp. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It feels like I’m back in fourth grade, when I saw Mr. Skerritt every month. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I studied you and your teachings for a project in tenth grade, so it feels most natural to interact with you as a homie. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The last one was in seventh grade and lasted for months. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After completing grade school, Evelyn was sent to Johannesburg to attend high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I can read, and learn things; I go to a regular school in Eden Prairie, and I get good grades. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“That’s a load off my mind. When I found out they made him eighth grade president—well, Sophie filled me in on what that might mean.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Last year, the fifth grade sang here near the holidays. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

By seventh grade, the tracks were well established, and the smart kids had all of their classes together. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe because today’s the first time I heard her say something since ninth grade?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He hates the lies he must write to get a good grade. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

To their great surprise, both he and Ron passed with good marks; Hermione, of course, had the best grades of the first years. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He was too focused on his soccer and his debate team and his grades. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“My dad noticed that our grades are getting posted online much later than usual,” Soojin agrees. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I have written my grades for the past term to Caitlin if you may want to see them. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The next time I see Juju, she’s stomping out of the office, saying Char better not flunk seventh grade. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You may think you’re very smart. You may think your perfect grades earn you some sort of special treatment. You may even think you have fans at this school, what with all this nonsense.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

By second grade, most students will be able to keep a steady beat, with a fair number able to do so by first grade. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Two seats up from where he sat, Mary Lou Peoples was at work being the second snottiest girl in the fifth grade. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But whatever happens, I will never forget Donoghue or our eighth- grade class. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lumber was low grade, the carpentry slipshod. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That one little word had made fifth grade a year to remember. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And rifles and bad test grades and grey fields full of grey cows, and—oh, God. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Roginski, who was my teacher for the third through fifth grades, would have meeting after meeting with my mother. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad told me about her in fourth grade.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My record shows that I flunked kindergarten and in first grade had no IQ—a zero IQ. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There. That’s better. So tell me, what grade are you going into next year?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sat behind me in third grade and was nonstop tapping my shoulder to borrow everything, like pencils and loose-leaf. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mischievous, cunning, private and completely unhousebroken, their games and interests had not changed since Hannah had them all put into the first grade together. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, as I’m clearing dishes and the Doctorita is grading papers at the table, I say, “Doctorita, I want to go to school.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like gettin’ good grades, but my friends talk about me if I get called up to the front on Awards Day with all the white kids. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s kind of a dream right now. I have to get good grades.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I figured he must be on the other bus, but then I overheard Miles tell Amos that Julian ditched the grade trip because he thought the whole nature-retreat thing was, quote unquote, dorky. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He had come out as gay in tenth grade. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he was in first grade, he had told his dad that he wanted to be an artist when he grew up. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t the science we learned in the sixth grade, but I wasn’t going to contradict my great-grandmother, especially if Fern would begin to eat. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He studied via distance learning over the TV, Tam Lin sent off the homework, it came back with excellent grades, and Celia praised Matt lavishly. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seth, on the other hand, settled for lousy grades, routinely skipped his homework, and earned frequent detentions. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“He failed a grade or two in elementary school,” said Camilla. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She insisted on absolute privacy, excellent school grades, and trusted no outsiders of either race. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, really, Suzy. When I was in seventh grade, all I wanted was to get the heck out of there. And I hadn’t even lost my best fr—” He stopped quickly and shook his head. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The grades from the junior year had already been submitted, and many of the students knew what schools they would attend. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That was a flapper thing to do and Andrea was only in eighth grade. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What is the difference between a pig sty and the sixth grade?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a good student—I have a 9.4 grade level in reading. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t add that, last I knew, Jason had a crush on Teresa Conchetti, and that he actually stood up for her once in sixth grade when Dallas was calling her Terry Conchesty. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the past, only a dramatically inept or difficult student was held back a grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Only he could have foreseen how two black eyes would earn her the lasting friendship of the tallest, and the strongest, and the fastest girl in all of the fifth grade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Further fact: No sixth grade had ever competed against the eighth because no sixth grade had ever gotten that far. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, he said his mom was on tour with Beyonce as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I only went to sixth grade, but even I know twenty-nine plus two equals thirty-one.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

What did become clear was that, given the Carter grading plan, it was possible to give Gary Edwards just about any grade. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had enrolled me in soccer when I was in second grade. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Richard was so fast that he got to work out with the high school track squad when he was only in seventh grade. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom said you had the other teacher, Mrs. Hazel, when you were in seventh grade. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

You don’t throw away a relationship that’s been going on since second grade over a sandwich, no matter how wrongheaded the other person is being. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’d learned the lessons I was supposed to learn and done well enough at the start of the year to progress to grade two. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when Terryl was in the fourth grade, she remembers finding a cup of orange juice in the kitchen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I had a bad class status, but I would have good grades. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the first thing Kevin said to me on the first day of school, eleventh grade. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

In fourth grade I embarked upon a grandiose reading program. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I was wearing hijab to school every day since I’d officially hit puberty, and I was in seventh grade, my life had gotten complicated. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I walk into the room where the Doctorita is lying on the sofa, grading papers, and Nino Carlitos is reclined in his chair, reading his textbook, scribbling on a notepad. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how good my grades had been in all my classes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t hurt either that Tom had lousy grades and managed to stay in boarding school only because Mr. Alacran sent the headmaster a large donation. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s only in the seventh grade, but she says he looks much older. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He’s practically the only person in my grade who hasn’t asked me what color his name is. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had finished the eighth grade in the poor southern state of Guerrero and saw nothing in his future there but fixing flat tires. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And it could be because Nick has better grades, or that he did well in the PSAT, or because Brown doesn’t think they can get anybody with your talents.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I don’t know anyone’s number by heart, except my stupid eighth grade boyfriend’s, who is the last person on this or any other planet that I’d call. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before examining her, he flipped through her chart—a quick sketch of her life, and a litany of untreated conditions: Sixth or seventh grade education; housewife and mother of five. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Skipping classes would be a challenge if I wanted to keep my grades up. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve put a deposit down to hold you a spot, in case you want to enroll for seventh grade. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

So, thanks to Mrs. Kurtz’s facilitation, I had scored my second smoking-hot-girl date on just my second day of eleventh grade. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At Gibbs Elementary School, the Monday morning before Christmas, all the students in grades one through six were excited with talk of the Christmas play. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Yen, the teacher, was grading the provincial exams one year, a thing with hair as ugly as yours plopped itself on his desk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I invented a secret admirer for Cap named Lorelei Lumley, a seventh grade student-government groupie, who slipped perfumed love notes through the vents of his locker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

People began to say that to me about the time I was in sixth grade. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father only went up to the second grade because his father, my grandfather, needed help farming and taking care of the cattle. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But what I hear, still ringing in my mind’s ear, is the Glee Club I belonged to, made up of girls from the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Fugees have seen their grades improve as they have become more familiar with English and have taken advantage of the program’s tutoring sessions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Teachers smile at them and grade them on the curve. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, we’d better at least stop by the cottage. Did you get your grade on your dress yet?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In second grade, he was forced to sit on a chair during circle time so he wouldn’t start to roll around on the ground or poke the person next to him. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There were about one hundred fifty kids in fifth grade. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only have two weeks before grades close and there’s no way Mom will let me go if I don’t, well, graduate eighth grade. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He reminded himself to grab his blue ribbon from the fourth grade art fair. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

August has rolled around too soon, and we only have a few more weeks before eighth grade starts. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I am. I’m going to do my A-level maths next month. And I’m going to get an A grade.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had to study many subjects and get passing grades to get to the equivalent of high school. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In tenth grade, I once drank a bottle of pink “wine” at a band party. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The day before I’d gone to first grade, T. Ray had found me in the peach stand sticking a nail into one of his peaches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew by the look on Dad’s face when he saw that C grade at the top that I wasn’t getting any donuts from him. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse has spent more time in this world than in any other for much of his life—since the fifth grade, he guesses. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, what if I don’t want good grades? What if I don’t want to be like you, Uhn-nee?” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They promote personal ambition by encouraging competition for the highest grades. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Jenny Leech’s wall of text about how Jesse touched her life in ways he didn’t even know, despite the extent of their relationship being the one class they shared in tenth grade. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Seventh grade is so much more chill already.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It is a postcard of who I was in fifth grade. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I hadn’t explained my feelings when I had fled from college, but I didn't know how to tell her about the flashbacks and my failing grades. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I went to that school through the seventh grade. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They nearly kicked me out for that, but my grades saved me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other winner is a girl in fourth grade who teaches advanced calculus to college kids. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’m seen as the kind of student that is quiet, has good grades, and is the teacher’s pet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I can tell he feels weird about me seeing his grade. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That’s why you must pull up your grades and improve your attitude. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn Anderson was elected eighth grade president, unopposed. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone ducks and then two more trot off, each with a big can of finest grade coffee, and reach the dug-out before the next explosion. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family had had to borrow the money for the suit in which I graduated from the ninth grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In third grade, during art, we all sat coloring hand turkeys for Thanksgiving. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She pressed Play, then picked up some papers and started grading. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hirohito, she said, was going into the seventh grade. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never spoken anything but English, and the other kids in the second grade despised me for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Through the ninth grade, but it was really the eighth,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was just a thought. I think your grades have slipped too much for that anyway.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed the L behind the bushes and walked on, enjoying the admiration of some seventh grade girls. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I remember once when we were in the eighth grade, Andy had a puppy who got hit by a car. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the war, he said, he never got past the second grade, never learned to read or write. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Of all the kids in the seventh grade at Camillo Junior High, there was one kid that Mrs. Baker hated with heat whiter than the sun. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A memory washes over me—Maddy’s sleepover birthday party in fourth grade, when her favorite younger cousin asked if I’m going to hell because I’m not Christian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Because I was promoted to the sixth grade?” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As of this writing, petersax-online2 had many exercises graded from simple to more difficult to help the beginner practice playing what you hear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“A ‘C’ average is required and Benjamin Meecham is the only boy in class that has the grades.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been classmates in fourth grade, and one time he’d given me a fountain pen, the kind you had to load with a cartridge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a new fifth grade teacher, Mr. Diggs. He used to write and act in plays before he became a teacher,” Macy said, smiling. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I had long suspected how the kids went about picking their eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Stuff I learned in grade school, when the D.A.R.E. cops used to come around and teach us about the so-called war on drugs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling he’ll go easy on me with my grade. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I felt ready for the sixth grade and couldn’t wait to be in Miss Honeywell’s class. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Then, get us excited about the start of seventh grade. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I would repeat the first grade if my teacher would let me. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I still remember how in third grade Sister Mary Joseph told Francine Zenowitz that her baby brother was going to limbo because her parents didn’t baptize him before he died. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to class, got good grades, wrote papers, talked to Mom after lunch, ate dinner, watched television, read. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The person with her notebook was probably in seventh grade, since they knew where her locker was. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he in third grade, though, he get to talking better than the President a the United States, coming home using words like conjugation and parliamentary. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In his formal education, he had never gone beyond the eighth grade. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scores came back a few weeks later and I once again received the highest grade in our school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s a student! He’s the eighth grade president!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I heard Max’s teacher say they read better than half the senior class. And them only in third grade.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I used to be a model student, skipped third grade and everything, but now I’m a troublemaker. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Char’s sister Juju is gonna pay her four hundred dollars if she gets herself through seventh grade this time. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her papers all have high marks on them, and she kept a running tally of her grades compared to everyone else's. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We skip rocks in the water and talk about school and movies and things we used to do in fifth grade. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Either you belong in grade six, classroom three, or you belong elsewhere.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My parents had only gone to sixth grade—they’d never had a chance for a class discussion like that. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the oldest students participating, the fourth graders put on a play of the book for the younger grades as well as for the parent- teacher association. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The nun who was the principal had suggested that Carla stay back a year in sixth grade, where they still had two spaces left. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All in all, I think there are about twelve of us from different grades, now thrown together, learning addition and algebra, “Cielito Undo” as well as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And that’s what I was, according to my fourth grade teacher, way back when I was nine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His daughter had seen this book in the school library in second grade and returned home deeply troubled. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They both remembered waking up that morning in the fall of ninth grade, absolutely sure. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My report card was a mess of brightly colored red marks and circled grades. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rochambeau nods and moves on to the table of eighth grade boys who are all standing up and yelling at each other. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We've been cool since fifth grade, mainly because even though we've never really talked about nothing bad, we both kinda knew something bad had happened to us. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If she made high grades, then others might be invited to enter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In lower school, every class would get its own picture taken with its own teacher, but in middle school, it’s just one group picture of the entire fifth grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She was on a clogging team all the way up until seventh grade, and she’s as bad at it now as she was back then. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The seventh and eighth grades, which our Special Progress class did in one year, were remarkable only in that I had no major fights and for the depression of my father. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

With the quizzes all collected, the room fell silent as S.Q. went through the pages, marking grades in his book. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Prozac was the third medication Dr. Howell tried me on, back when I was in eighth grade. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

From the outside it seemed to be an antiquated Dell, the same open- box special with the scratched screen my mother got for me when I was in fourth grade. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The site includes music theory lessons for students between grades 1 and 5 in the form of tables, lists, and videos to help the student better understand the many parts of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The pressure to do well in school begins to build at grade four, believe it or not, and it becomes everything to students by grade seven.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Leah and I have not thought of her in that way since the second grade, when we passed her up in the school spelling bee. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Waiting for you to grade the test,” Mr. Spencer replied. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Is that worth giving up for good grades? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She used to wear it in a cute bob because we hated how every girl in our grade had long straight hair. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She and Brian had been friends since the eighth grade, had been dating for almost two years. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I made it to grade three, where I had my first male teacher, Mr. French. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell took the cast to the auditorium to practice onstage, leaving the remainder of the fourth grade in the school yard with Mr. Jackson to form the crew. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I was still concerned the principal would figure out I had never finished eleventh grade, so I didn't put up a fight. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My grades sank, teachers laughed in my face, but I tried not to let it get to me. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And then in third grade, she started with her mean games, so I’ve never been to her house. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He was pretty smart, too, but he made this big show of not caring about grades. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But thinking of Halloween reminded me of a funny story from when I was in fifth grade. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Candy has decided to join the fourth grade, and she does not plan to wait until September. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I stayed there until the next week, when the whole class was given a spelling test and I scored the highest grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took us more than a half hour to walk to school, and when we arrived, I saw that there were only three girls in Sumbul’s grade. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was Lisa Greenbaum—in my grade, but not in my class—and Ari Marks, who played kickball every day at recess and was always in trouble for tracking mud inside. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But I would remain until the ninth grade term had ended. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cause Sugar at Miss Celia’s and you want a live to see third grade.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Your grade report from the semester you got straight As. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, he had seldom received a mark lower than an A. In the seventh and eighth grades at St. Jude’s, he had received straight A's for two years except for a 5-plus one term. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is for all of seventh grade. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa, of course, expected her to bring home good grades in every subject. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Judy was in the other fourth grade class, so I didn’t see too much of her. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An A,” he muttered, his large horse jaws working as he weighed the disgrace of his role for the grade. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grades had always been mediocre, and given that I had never finished eleventh grade, the private schools in San Juan wouldn't accept me as a senior. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But Dray’s been lookin’ out since I was in kindergarten and he was in third grade. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We moved out of our house right after first grade ended. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I bet he wrote stuff when he was in the sixth grade, too. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He really could have been any other eighth- grade kid at Eastham Middle School. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I worried about my math grades, and I always had trouble in English composition classes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I just wanted Coach Simmons to think that. He gives better grades to football players.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Henley was our seventh grade art teacher who just couldn’t handle getting old. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in the sixth grade, my parents gave me a baseball glove and a typewriter for my birthday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“First, that grading is not an exact science. Second, this case has demonstrated amply the absurdity of setting grades by public hearing.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, however, these students did even worse, averaging just 4.1 on their fifth- grade tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The bus went up a grade, onto the campus, and parked in front of the administration building. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even Hudson and Harriett had perfectly fine grades before the three of us got closer. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

By now, everyone in the fifth grade knew that spiders come with no, six or eight eyes. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since I totally just told off Matt Hubbard and some eighth grade boy. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I can’t even begin to imagine that,” said Gaines, who in his own life could only remember disappointing his father once, in seventh grade, when he had played a football game over in Kermit. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my parents if my grades dropped or it felt like too much I would slow down, but it never got to that point for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

After tests were returned and grades given, the student body, which acted like an extended family, knew who did well, who excelled, and what piteous ones had failed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few miles the Stampede Trail was well graded and led past cabins scattered among weedy stands of spruce and aspen. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I had a bad day, and I took it out on the test. I know it was stupid, but Mr. Guthrie drops the lowest grade anyway, so it won’t even affect my grade.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Dr. Johnson called the principal for me, Sister Mary Margaret. She agreed that you could start there on Wednesday, in the seventh grade, on a trial basis.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt’s mouth has dropped open, and the eighth grade boy is looking at me like I just beamed in from space. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Justin loomed over me, standing at almost five foot six in fifth grade, and his skinny frame made him appear even taller. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’s in our grade but he’s a foot taller and two years older. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The course was called Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball, and the final grade was based on a single exam that had twenty questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If he didn’t like our grades on his tests, he made us study and retake the tests until we made better grades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward we’re supposed to start on our homework while the teacher grades the quizzes, but my notebook fills up with doodles instead. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether she had family or if she was going to spend her vacation preparing lessons and grading tests. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s something of a genius. He has a Punjabi mother and a Bengali father, and because he learns French and English at school he already speaks four languages. I think he skipped two grades.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When they were in fifth grade, Taryn got really into tarot cards. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The club leader’s name was Mr. Clifton, and there were five other kids in fourth-period math club, from all different grades. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They probably didn’t know that his wife was a teacher too—eighth grade English at a school on Chicago’s South Side. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In eighth grade I even put in detention time for a week, unrepentantly, for unscrewing the valve stems on one really uncouth boy’s bike tires myself and then painstakingly deflating them, for her. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In third grade— the very last year that one could play T-ball—my mother wanted me to make friends, so she forced me onto the Orlando Pirates. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I talked about the day in fourth grade when Mom picked me up from school in the middle of the day. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the four, Bruce Martin, I met on the first day of seventh grade, at twelve years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“So, Jessie. Did you hear about the eighth grade dance?” he asked casually, leaning his elbows on the counter. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“He said something about a reward if my grades get better, but you know how that is.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were in tenth grade, he orchestrated a plan to standardize our entire class—make every tenth-grader exactly the same. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Me and Smitty had been friends forever, been in the same class since third grade. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When Petey was in the seventh grade, her mother gave her a book called Get Real. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All that changed in one afternoon soon after Cara started fifth grade. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to do the seventh and eighth grades in one year and were then going to do the ninth grade the next year, making up any work we needed along the way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Goldman, it’s been a long time since you were in seventh grade.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But that year was also the year that kids in his grade had started shifting into separate categories, some willingly and others not so willingly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until I reached the second grade that I realized that I had a speech problem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

By the end of first grade, a black child is underperforming a statistically equivalent white child. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Don Julio had told me that if students didn’t speak English, the schools in Brooklyn would keep them back one grade until they learned it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’s playing football for Penn State but he needed the summer to get his grades right to play football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Football, of course. And as the eighth grade president, you have an important role.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Having left the town behind, the SUV climbed a steep grade. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Thinking about that, about her going to college and about what Mr. Tate was saying about my grades and everything, was part of who I was. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, as most of the other girls in my grade began to undergo their own transformations, I began to worry less about possible accidents and more about being left behind, left out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could have gone to kindergarten, but when I went for one week, I cried and screamed so much that my parents thought maybe I shouldn’t start school until first grade. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And also because we've averaged about two classes together every year since the sixth grade. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene knew more about Cory than I did, since they were in the same grade. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My wardrobe left something to be desired at the start of ninth grade. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“That was forever ago! We’re in sixth grade now. You need to get over it.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Uh, why did I take gym in the tenth grade? All we did was play volleyball and do burpees. This sounds way better.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

In the fifth grade I thought I was in love with Henry. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The reason, of course, is the upcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll be promoted to the next grade and who’ll be kept back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We had a good thing going, studying in the library together after school and gossiping about everyone in our grade, just like we always had. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going back to seventh grade. I can do the work. I’m not stupid.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The girl of my dreams has no idea I’m in the room, even though I’ve sat behind her in every class since first grade, and Annette has ‘big plans’ for me.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't matter how often my mom told me I was beautiful, because I knew the truth: I had peaked in sixth grade. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And what Zach had in mind amounted to calling the entire eighth grade down on Cap. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It meant real letter grades on your report cards. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope Mr. Griffiths doesn’t give me a bad grade.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sasha had returned home from our summer travels to start third grade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t care about eighth grade or Mr. Phillips and his thoughts about my “potential.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But a reminder: This paper is fifty percent of your grade. I encourage you to take it seriously Now, about this Jesus fellow.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Up until the second grade, Ma packed my lunch every day. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was a few minutes early one week and entered the office to find Agent Samson doing her job on Garth Barclay, a slight, kittenish boy I'd met back in the fourth grade. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If we did not suit up right, we would lose points, which hurt our grade. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That she was going into the second grade and that she watched Mighty Mouse and not Captain Kangaroo. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d had it since first grade, when I was a baby and glad of it. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he said those were the best days of his life and maybe I could go too ’cause I got good grades. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Fifth grade started a few weeks ago, and a couple of cool things have happened. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This was despite the fact that his Cal Tech grades left much to be desired, even considering his long bout with mononucleosis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

While all the other girls sprouted breasts between sixth and seventh grade, my chest was as flat as my back. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Your records show that they wanted to hold you back in second grade. That would be the second time you have been kept back. Did you know that?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’m pretty sure it was me who ate five cookie cones at the Ren Faire in sixth grade, and then vomited into a wax mold of my own hand. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

That’s not surprising: if one group has higher undergraduate grades and test scores than the other, it’s almost certainly going to have higher grades in law school as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That night the truck went up long grades, down, up again. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the back of each one was part of the penguin project Evan had done last year in third grade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When we couldn’t and I told Mrs. Ellis, my fourth- grade teacher, that I had forgotten my quarter, she said her records indicated that someone had already paid for me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded us whenever someone grumbled about homework or grades, which was at least once every class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She moved in the winter of third grade. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

This was the question that the eighth grade could not answer and Noah could: Name all the parts of the human eye in the order that light reaches them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Children who brought home poor grades were made to study during the afternoon, and were tutored by the older ones and Mother and Dad. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"One year old and already he's on his way to ninth grade." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I moved here at the end of sixth grade, and after a few weeks, we stopped texting each other so much. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And a good teacher’s students carried over all their gains into the next grade. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Under its guidelines, by fourth grade, students will devote half their reading time to nonfiction, including historical documents, maps, and other “informational texts”—even such materials as train schedules and recipes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nobody else in our grade is dating or even close to dating! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was aware of it—everybody in town was—but up until the sixth grade Permian was off-limits to him because the school system was segregated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her seventh grade essay was entitled “The Cerebral Palsy Wheelchair Olympics Blues.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If the entire class that had started the ninth grade here had finished, it would have been a very long ceremony. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was just starting ninth grade at a prep school near Detroit, Michigan. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By the time I started fifth grade, I stopped seeing him completely because I no longer walked past him on my way to school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In second grade, I showed her how I could make an empty pop bottle sound like a flute if I blew across its top. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

In seventh grade, I just wanted to blend in. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

White had to constantly fill out Efficiency Rating sheets, grading agents, on a scale of 0 to 100, in such categories as “knowledge,” “judgment,” “personal appearance,” “paper work,” and “loyalty.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the bus, I ignore the eighth grade boy who pretend-coughs some comment I can’t understand and lean my face against the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

In third grade I began to sum up our grocery bill in my head, silently write it down and hand it over, faster than Delma Royce could total it on her cash register. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a race around the soccer field in third grade that swept me into a real love of running. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was the mainland school supervisor who had graded the exams who took time to write me a note of congratulations. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students in classroom A averaged 5.8 on their sixth- grade tests, which is a full grade level below where they should be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Meet seventh grade peasants! Me? Of course, Karen. This is all so silly.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d insisted I was exceptionally smart, and I always got perfect grades in school easily. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because some grade has to get early lunch period.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I woke up early that morning and lay in bed, looking at the stars and savoring the thought of not going to work and of starting sixth grade for the first time that year. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was the end of January and we had just returned from Fresno where I had started the sixth grade in Mr. Lema’s class in November. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think something must happen to you when you get into eighth grade. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Laurencin called a school assembly for the contest against the eighth grade. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The recovery left him short, skinny, and sickly—afflicted with severe asthma—throughout his grade- school years and beyond. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Underneath a huge group of flowering bushes, there is a small stone house that we made the summer before second grade, hoping fairies would move in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

As I pick through the mess of loose papers, snack bar wrappers, and composition notebooks, I glimpse my graded math test. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He would have sat down at the dining-room table and crammed, because he would have been embarrassed about me being in almost the same grade as him. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

There are pictures of her and Olga all over her walls and dresser: at the park, in a photo booth, grade school, prom, graduation, dinners. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was the last day of seventh grade before summer vacation. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did I tell Emily’s secret and watch her be humiliated in front of the entire grade without doing anything to help, now I was actually letting her apologize to me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And so in the spring of 1956, when we were in the fourth grade, I took her out on the first real date of my life—a double date, actually, with my mother and father. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just fooled around every day, and their grades got worse and worse. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His reply posed far more questions than it answered: apparently, Cap had asked about it as part of his duties as eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I remember in third grade when you first wore it. I thought you had lost all your hair, like you were sick or something. Isn’t that crazy?” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

—I remember the first time I saw him— tallest kid in the seventh grade. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anne Marie, his mom, was in my grade. Sweet, pretty. Cheerleader. Nice to everyone. We all thought she’d turn Clint a little nicer when they got married. Guess that didn’t happen.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now I’m in fifth grade which is why I can read anything Dad can. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, two weeks into sixth grade, Mike Deluca moved across the street from me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I need the grade. If I get all As this semester, we’re going to Disney over winter break.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A picture of them at the water slides, the summer after first grade. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Worse—she even had a couple of bad grades in that notebook that she’d hidden from her parents, which she knew was dumb. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But other than one do-gooder teacher in sixth grade—who they ignored and was gone a year later anyway—no teacher or principal or any other adult had ever said a thing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was the tallest and the strongest and the scariest girl in all of the fifth grade. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Despite McClellan’s lack of skills or education beyond the twelfth grade, there was good reason to believe that the aluminum factory could get him into middle-class security quicker than a bachelor’s degree could, he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Marian completed eight grades at Stanton Elementary School. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Actually, Esther had been a disruption during the first and second grade, and I had been shamefully glad when she left. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rumor was that she’d have to be held back a year if she didn’t get her grades up, but so far she was managing to stay in our class. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I shrug, because this is sixth grade and I am not going to yell at Maddy or, worse, cry in the middle of the cafeteria. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

At the end of grade six I left Maryvale to go to H. A. Jack Primary, a government school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Seventh grade, Carlos is still hoping to be cool. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Bridge had been picked for the tournament once, at the end of sixth grade. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In September of grade twelve, the matric dance was coming up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When I had finished the eighth grade back in Mason, Michigan, that was the last time I’d thought of studying anything that didn’t have some husde purpose. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Stephanie had been tutoring Erin, it made sense that Erin had gotten her grades up. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

In the living room, Mom was grading quizzes with her feet up on the coffee table. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Just remember,” Andrea went on, “when you start school in the States next fall, you’ll be in eighth grade. Nobody in the eighth grade is going to be singing ‘Swa- nee River.’” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Davis ruled that Carter had acted responsibly in deter-mining Edwards’s grade and that education commissioner Kirby had no standing to determine that Edwards was ineligible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, after struggling for English words, I managed to tell her that I wanted to enroll in the sixth grade. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Emma almost got distracted thinking about how weird life must be in sixth grade. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I wish I was still in third grade,” I said. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this year Wayne Pettis would be in the sixth grade. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade, he in eleventh—a whole year older than I even am now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But she provides her with grade cards, childhood drawings, school papers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The opulence of having a teacher for each grade made a deep impression on them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve and going into the ninth grade of what would today be called a “gifted” program, while many of the other kids my age were just going into the seventh. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even when the upper grades had to make recitations of the Preamble to the Constitution. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Before he started sixth grade Nick was Nick again, and all through junior high and high school and college, he proved it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He uses phrases like “mutual respect” and “exemplary manners,” while people slump in their seats and yawn, waiting for practical information like grading or homework policies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

That means that I have a chance to get a computer if I keep my grades up. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The other kids in the grade knew about the war. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She'd started to write him a letter—she'd started it a million times—but that seemed like such a seventh grade thing to do. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

By lunchtime, the entire seventh grade class is obsessed with the idea that Silas was the shooter. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I get to English class, Mr. Wise gives us a villainous smile that can only mean he’s finished grading our short essay quizzes on Thoreau. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Did I mention she’s the hottest girl in the eighth grade? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near the end of the year in the third grade, I slapped a kid, and my teacher, Mrs. Zeiss, slapped me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“No. That was fifth grade. Of the countries. Name a country.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was in all the accelerated classes at school, got almost perfect grades, kept her room tidy, and always practiced for her piano lessons. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Yesterday on the playground, Aubrey announced that she was the most popular girl in fourth grade, which might be true but shouldn’t be. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Fifth grade will be a big year to grow up,” Mom says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She tries to grade a third exam but cannot concentrate; the numbers drift across the pages and collect at the bottom in unintelligible piles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mom had explained once that sometimes when kids got into sixth or seventh grade, they started getting embarrassed easily. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

A sunshiny church youth group a few grades below Dill and Lydia came in and ordered cupcakes and smoothies. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Ugh. Fine. How about every day I went into the cafeteria before fifth grade and all this year?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mommy looked at the grades and said, “James is no C student.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not having girls around helped him focus on what was truly important to him: his grades, his activities, his future. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nick had good grades and he had a nice look about him and everything. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember in second grade when that magician came to the school fair?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They made fun of me for my high grades, my size, and my clothing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The tests were given in only a fraction of the time usually needed for completion, so most children had lots of unanswered questions, and when the time was up the tests were collected and graded. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s gift money given to students with excellent grades to attend college.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

One minute, I’m like, the most popular kid in the fifth grade. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Antibacterial soap growing the lowest number of bacterial colonies, compared to regular soap, hand sanitizer, and a plain-water rinse? It took first place in third grade.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shortly before I’d started first grade, my mother had started to gain a lot of weight. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I said Vonetta and Fern were driving me crazy and that I couldn’t wait for school to start so I could officially be in the sixth grade. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They'd been best friends since grade school, and the better that she got to know them, the more Eleanor felt like it was an honor that they'd let her into their club. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Megan and I met in second grade, but her family would eventually move to Massachusetts and I would visit her during the summers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It had all started when I was in fifth grade and we were looking for something to do. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t get it at home. I remember in third grade, coming home with straight A’s on my report card, and my parents, being fundamentalist Christians, said, ‘Be careful. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I feel bad for her—I wonder what her grades were in high school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Were you wondering why I was still writing out valentines, even though I’m in seventh grade? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like most everything else we do, education, from grade school through the highest of universities, is just a way to keep us busy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“My mother writes on cereal boxes and on the wall,” I’d said proudly in the second grade. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm yanked out of a dream-filled sleep—first of my mother walking me to grade school, then of Eden's bleeding irises and the red number under our porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“My son is going into the seventh grade too,” she went on. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lanford told us at the very beginning that there would be one grade given, so everybody had to do a fair share. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The one person in Yana Urku who is not at all impressed with my newly discovered ability to write, direct, act, and get good grades is Papito. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He patiently listened to Roberto who, using the little English he knew, managed to enroll me in the first grade. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My grades were good, and I was a competent standardized test taker. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Only the fifth grade wasn’t involved, because they needed to focus on the spring tests to make sure they graduated and moved on to middle school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

In early June my sister Gerry took me to school, but after a hurried conference between Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Flynn, I was promoted to the fifth grade and moved to a new school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t destroy a Death Star or anything like that, but I did just get through the fifth grade. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mama wanted me to stay on and go to ninth grade—she’d always wanted to be a schoolteacher instead of working in Miss Woodra’s house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hated being stuck here—in seventh grade, in South Grove, in this place of never being able to undo anything. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By fourth or fifth grade, though, some of us would try to hit the ball. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, as my sister Gerry pointed out, I had been promoted to the fourth grade. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was told that Kirk had sat in the wrong seat and was given the wrong grade by mistake. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Willard Hughes, I reckon. Every girl in the seventh grade slides to the ground when he walks by.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My grades weren’t terrible, but they were nothing to write home about. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

One week in seventh grade, we tried to convince people we were sisters, even though Anna’s half Chinese, Morgan’s Jewish, and I’m basically the size of both of them combined. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When encouraging Johnny to try training for a marathon, or when I failed to win the reading prize in seventh grade. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I do not believe he knows that middle schools and even grade schools now compete in the Relays. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

That was the hospital where I was born and where I had had my tonsils removed when I was in fourth grade and where Nikki was now. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t missed so much school the previous two years, I might have smoked those tests, but I had barely passed the eleventh grade and was lucky to be a senior. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This class was an elective, so there was flexibility in the roster—we weren’t all in the same grade; Leilani and Shauna, for example, were juniors. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

My chemistry grade was the last thing I wanted to discuss in front of Diego. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We’ve been friends since the first day of first grade, when Ms. Diamond put us both at the same table. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

With little more than a week left in the six-week grading period, school principal C. C. Russeau transferred Gary Edwards out of the course to one with another teacher. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We go to school here. You remember: I’m Thalia. And this is Annabeth and Percy. We re in the eighth grade.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

My grades or homework or something, I guess. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When Hugh was in the fifth grade, his class took a field trip to an Ethiopian slaughterhouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I was in ninth grade, and basketball tryouts were one week away. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If zero were nothing, the student could claim that the grades for the courses he failed did not exist, and demand a 4.0 average. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was an almost in second grade after I spent a whole weekend practicing my sounding-out words so I could move up to the red reading group. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Unless they know me, kids think I’m in the second grade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember you warning the guy off when we nominated him for eighth grade president,” I snarled. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look Jewish to me,” I said, thinking of Melissa Miller in sixth grade. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I know about these things. My brother started getting drunk in tenth grade, and it just about destroyed him. I might have been like him, except that I saw what it did to him.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Because of the lateness of the transfer, and because he was behind, Gary Edwards didn’t receive any grades for homework or participation with his new teacher. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tied for top grades in first through sixth. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She was the first girl in the grade to actually have a “boyfriend.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I kept pestering Aunt Margaret to tell me if there was anything about eighth grade that I should know and didn’t. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked at the hairball on the payload, I didn’t see the eighth grade president; I saw the Super Bowl champions. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, you don’t want to be in the seventh grade and have people hear you snore. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Sure, he’s weird, but he’s the best eighth grade president we’ve ever had.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He had some papers to grade, and he started off reluctantly one morning, looking very unhappy about the way of life he had chosen. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Crenshaw was about three years ago, right after first grade ended. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They were frequently assaulted by terrifying dreams, Rose and Polly often cried when left alone, and although they had all remained in school, their grades were suffering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She really did not have any definite vocation, but she had earned the highest grades by means of inflexible discipline simply in order not to annoy her mother. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There are lots of other kids in my grade who go to our church, but no one else’s parents make them go to church on a school morning. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My high school grades were sour, my SATs low, but my musical and writing abilities were strong and I had good recommendations. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught reading to the first grade and algebra to the eighth. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since third grade I had been counting on getting into Shi-yi, one of the best junior high schools in Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No grades were given, but there were oral exams each week. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the photo made the grade, we cut it out, glued it on a piece of lined paper, and reinforced the holes in the paper with adhesive Os so the page wouldn’t tear out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a factory worker whose education ended at the eighth grade; his mother had some factory jobs, too. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Peering into Bates’s grade book, a document that was later brandished about in the courtroom as if it were a murder weapon, he saw the notation “NC” for one of the daily homework grades. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a nickname I haven’t used in a long time, since the first day of fifth grade. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He steadily moved through his coursework, earning decent grades for the first time in his high school career. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We don’t get many new students. Especially in the fifth grade.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

First, there were no grades, and that is always nice. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am in the eighth grade and am studying French. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few kids are younger—third, maybe fourth grade. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I received an email from your math teacher. Ms. Finch said that she graded those unit exams. She listed the class averages for each period.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sharkey said that, after all, she knew the current seventh grade, for she had taught them just last year; and in her opinion, when they were very, very good, they were mediocre. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow is the last day of sixth grade. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Liyana asked Poppy, “Do you remember that Emily Dickinson poem I liked a lot in second grade that starts, I’m nobody, who are you?'” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Boys in grade one through six will wear black turbans, higher grades will wear white. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Remember I said I’m going into the fourth grade? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After the fourth grade, because the family was so poor, Elijah had to quit school and begin full-time working. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d earned a grade of 90 percent in Spanish and 97 percent in geometry, making for “a really good year.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The school had spoken with her last year about moving me straight to sixth grade after Jay and I both finished fourth, and she thought it was a good idea. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was ten, in fourth grade, and probably the best climber in the whole school. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Daoud acted like he was one of the family, but he was just a guy my brother had brought home when they'd met in fifth grade, a decade ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My dad, a cop, taught me and twenty-four other kids about it in second grade, when he gave his presentation on Stranger Danger. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It can be anything, Henry. Essay, experiment, song and dance. Just give me something I can slap a grade on.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe fifth grade will be the year of earmuffs and the second year without a friend who is not a fish or in a book. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He smiled encouragingly toward the back of the room and returned to his grading. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Next month I’m going to take my A level in maths and I’m going to get an A grade. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That year, we went to fifth grade together. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In his mind, my entire life is this gigantic chess match, where every tiny move I make in the seventh grade has to be perfectly designed to bring about some glorious endgame decades later. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Some little kids walk by, reminding me that I’m in sixth grade—the highest grade in this school. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When we got there, I would start second grade. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

No one wanted to dance with the tallest girl in the sixth grade. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“So, if I get good grades, I can get free money to go to college?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Fred had played trumpet in the school jazz band since sixth grade, but he didn’t listen to jazz at home. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone in eighth grade is going to know exactly the same things.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My success made me happy, but, this time, the grade seemed less important than what I had learned from reading the book. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Back in seventh grade, Andrew rarely spoke about gender with Sasha after that one conversation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m so glad this isn’t for a grade, or I’d kick your butt out of this group.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several weeks into eighth grade, I finally heard from Martin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At that moment, two boys from our grade run by, hitching up their jeans as they pass us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I drew the line in fifth grade when my mom sent me to school as the modern-day queen of England in her old yellow suit with my hair curled up high and sprayed white. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Just the fact that the entire seventh grade is so obsessed with the Jordie-Pamela breakup is proof of that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Um, this is going to sound weird, but on a scale of one to five, how popular were you in fourth grade?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

From the day she moved to town, during April of fourth grade, everyone had completely ignored her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he wasn’t playing anymore, he found himself flunking three classes at the end of the second six-week grading period. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s not enough. You have to have good grades. You have to show good character.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pulled up to Warren Kent Charter School, behind a line of other cars waiting to drop off at the big fenced-in yard where all the kids gathered by grade before the first bell. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he went to Permian in the tenth grade, he was mainstreamed into regular classes but could get extra help when he needed it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned my lesson about the cooking smell the hard way after I left my hoodie in the kitchen one morning in fourth grade while Mama was up early cooking before work. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His only interests were my grades and church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that worked out they would begin integrating grades seven through nine, the junior high students. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“How is it humanly possible that I have a daughter who’s starting her senior year in high school? How in the hell can my baby boy be starting second grade?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was in the eighth grade and I was in sixth. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The first in my fourth grade class, at least. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I recognized him—Mr. Weaver, whose son Harry was five grades ahead of me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, we hid in Beth’s closet when she had a slumber party. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn't going to just bump along to grade thirteen and not go to a real school where I'd be roughed up and challenged. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Thank God I skipped a grade, or else I’d be stuck here for another year. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Late afternoon: In the office at Berkeley I shared with several other lecturers and teaching assistants, I was grading some papers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ken Kamata and Toby Alvillar were just about the most disgusting boys in the sixth grade, in a fascinating sort of way. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

One person in every class with the highest grade point average receives a certificate. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her judgment was as swift as it was dismissive, probably based on a quick-glance calculus involving my grades and test scores. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I sensed she was trying to calculate whether good grades made me low maintenance or more trouble. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fleming gave me a B, and math doesn’t even have a grade. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Emo claimed they never got along, not since grade school when they had rock fights in the school yard; he said Tayo had wanted to get even with him for a long time. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And they couldn’t care less about my good grades, not when I walk around looking the way I do. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

So it was a shock when I came upon the scent on my fifth- grade teacher, who said it was nothing but plain ordinary Ponds Cold Cream. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handmade ones from my first grade, and second grade, and third grade. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She asked especially about my grades, and I ran and got my report cards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, he claimed that Rihanna was his cousin and that his mom was on the road with her, working as her hairstylist. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I picked him up from school, his mood was dependent on how much time he'd spent with his grade school crush. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You were small till ninth grade and look at you now, beanstalk.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But that would delay the end of this story, the one that started when Nick was in fifth grade. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in fifth grade, I didn’t know how fast time could move. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Seventh grade was the year they finally got to have lockers, and Bridge swore she was going to kiss hers every day until the end of September. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it amazed him that this girl, just out of third grade, could make him feel so little. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the eighth grade I applied to the High School of Art and Design on Fifty-seventh Street and Second Avenue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Tiny and I actually played Little League together—not in this park, but in one closer to our houses, starting in third grade. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Jackie told them about being a majorette in tenth grade and marching in the Memorial Day parade in the rain. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I wrote that in my diary about my entire seventh grade year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they’d realized I got my essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth grade, she trimmed it with some scissors during a math test because she felt like it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Just some basketball players. You don’t know them. In our grade.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, didn’t you skip ahead a grade this year? That’s a lot for a student to adjust to. And no school year is ever perfect. No person is ever perfect.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Well, I thought to myself one day as I walked to Dunbar Junior High for my eighth grade class, at least college classes will be open to us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My parents ran a tight ship, and I had no reason to believe they weren’t serious about their demands, so I didn’t dare bring home any grade below an A-minus. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Deep breath, Ibtihaj,” I told myself, remembering what my mom said to me the day I came home in the third grade after Delia Sanders and her brother Justin threw snowballs at me after school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Classes are large: the fifth grade has two sections of thirty-five students each. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“So did you. So did the whole eighth grade.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I did a term paper on the history of jazz in Chicago when I was in eighth grade. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poems and stories about the hardships and joys of the Puerto Rican jíbaro were required reading at every grade level in school. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And the myself in sixth grade is the real myself?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They strutted through the school and around the campus exerting pressure on the lower grades. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, we sat by grade, next to whoever our friends were. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z