# Fish in a Tree

**Author:** Lynda Mullaly Hunt
**Lexile:** 550L
**Grade range:** Grades 4–7
**Age range:** 9–12
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 304
**Genre:** Middle Grade Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780142426425`
**ISBN-10:** `0142426423`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/fish-in-a-tree
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Sixth-grader Ally has hidden her dyslexia for years by acting out and switching schools, until a perceptive new teacher recognizes how her mind works and helps her see her own intelligence. Lynda Mullaly Hunt's novel reframes a learning difference as a different kind of brilliance. A grades 4-7 classroom favorite, it is used for units on empathy, learning differences, and self-worth.

## Themes

- disability
- friendship
- school
- resilience
- bullying

## Content notes

- bullying

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