Flying Solo 

    Flying Solo, a realistic fiction by Ralph Fletcher, describes a sixth-grade class on a Friday with a not-so-ordinary day without their teacher. To begin we meet the main character Rachel who has stopped talking after her classmate Tommy Feathers died just 6 months earlier. On the six-month anniversary of Tommys death, she thought it would be a normal day at school, but with her class's teacher not showing up and their sub doesn’t either they decided to run the class themselves. As the day goes on they keep their schedule pretty normal until they all sit down to do what they call a rock ritual which is used when one of the classmates is leaving. the ritual gets out of hand and as the day comes to an end the principal finds out that they had no sub and they are busted. Finally, all of the students had a tough weekend but when they came not only was their teacher not mad but Karen for the first time in six months spoke.

    Flying Solo is a great book because of the change in perspective from classmate to classmate and how they all have different lives outside of school. but I also like this book because of the suspense in each of the kids' stories and how they all show their characters from the inside out. But to me, the best part of this book is how detailed and realistic the book really is. And that's why I think that Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher is a great and descriptive book.