✦RBLevel 5 · Sophisticated ReadersUS Grade 6Lexile 640LAR (ATOS) 4.5 · First published 2018
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Front Desk to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Arthur A. Levine Books paperback (Scholastic), ISBN 9781338157826. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
💰 Money, Work and Business
How a motel runs, loans and interest, the minimum wage and fair pay, and how many small investors can buy something big together.
SUPPORTING
⚖️ Fairness and Belonging
Coming to America, evidence versus suspicion, innocent until proven guilty, and safety at work — the fights for fairness at the Calivista.
SUPPORTING
✍️ Writing That Changes Things
Persuasive letters, a first-person narrator, metaphors and symbols — how Mia’s words, and Kelly Yang’s, make things happen.
