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Mr. Kerel.

Story Stats

Rating: 5
Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7
Page count: 7
Categories: Ecology, Humor, Nature

Author

Adam
Gidwitz

Appeared in

The Creativity Project: An Awesometastic Story Collection

Story Summary

Chinami's mom's new boyfriend is a fish. How awkward is that. The humiliation, the embarrassment, that is until Mr. "Mac" Kerel, addresses the school assembly about climate change with the perspective that only a fish could have - the dying coral reefs, the islands of plastic. Maybe having a fish in the family won't be so bad after all.