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Name: The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez
Author: Paulino, Jasminne
ISBN: [978-0-593-85931-5,0-593-85931-6]

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The Extraordinary Orbit of Alex Ramirez

Author: Paulino, Jasminne

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Follett Number: 2748EG5
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2025
Format: 290 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-593-85931-5
ISBN-10: 0-593-85931-6
LCCN: 2024-037552
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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Bullies and Bullying Fiction

Middle Schools Fiction

Novels in Verse

School Fiction

Schools Fiction

Alex, a neurodiverse seventh grader, works to convince his teachers and parents that he is ready to leave his self-contained classroom and join his grade's mainstream science class.

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A powerful debut novel in verse about a neurodivergent seventh grader who dreams of traveling to the stars one day. "This story is about a boy who is certain of his own magic in the midst of the doubtful adults around him. A kid who knows not even the sky, but the stars are the limit. Which makes Paulino's debut...extraordinary." --Jason Reynolds, author of National Book Award finalist Look Both Ways and Newbery Honor Book Long Way Down Seventh grader Alex's favorite things to do are watching YouTube videos of rocket launches with his Papi and spending hours on the NASA website reading about astronauts and planets. He even dreams of going to space one day himself, and knows he'll have to study hard in order to get there. But Alex is in his grade's SC (self-contained) classroom, which means doing the same dull worksheets every day and reading books his sister read back in the third grade. Worst of all, being in SC means nobody thinks he's ready to join Ms. Rosef's mainstream science class--the class Alex knows will be the first step on his path to NASA. When his teacher says "not yet" for the millionth time, Alex decides it's time to make a change. Now he's ready to try everything he can to get the people in his life--his teachers, his parents, and the kids at school--to understand that he, Alex Ramirez, is capable of the extraordinary.

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