Olive runs an Impressive campaign with platforms such as… affordable field trips for everyone regardless of means, clearing up the biased dress code and homework issues facing classmates. Determined Olive decides run for class president, against Trent and Sawyer and two other classmates. A sit-in and a petition generate some interest, but not enough to bring about change. Olive uses the library to research, the way to organize a peaceful protest. At home, Olive is inspired by her Aunt Molly who is a librarian and she is NOT a shusher. The boys aren’t as mature thinking as Olive. She goes to her skate buds, Trent and Sawyer, with her concern. Then Olive discovers that students from families that can't afford the cost of the field trip had been left behind and she finds this wrong and upsetting. In this book the characters are in sixth grade, and also interact with the upper middle school kids as well.In Act, the story opens as Olive Branche, and (almost) everyone else in sixth grade are excited for the class field trip to the city to see a musical that leaves everyone that had the opportunity to go, bubbling over with excitement as they return to school. She then puts the issues in a context that speaks to middle grade readers. Her writing presents complex ideas like class inequality, privilege, social activism, and peaceful protest. Act is Kayla Miller’s third book in this excellent series.
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