This month we go to Grand Isle School, where fifth graders have been reading Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle. The book draws on Federle's own experience in musical theater and the classic middle school experience of feeling like an outcast. Thirteen-year-old Nate Foster has a reputation in his small Pennsylvania town of being, well, something of a wimp. Yet his undeniable love of musical theater leads him on a bold adventure in Tim Federle's novel. Nate sneaks out of his house and hops a