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Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan is a book about two fifth grade boys in New Jersey who go to Albert Einstein Elementary School. The first boy, whose name is Ravi, just moved from India. He was the smartest in his grade at his school in India and was very popular. The second boy, Joe, has a medical condition called Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), which means he is often distracted by noises and can’t tune out sounds very well. He has always been picked on by kids like Dillon Samreen, a boy who goes to Einstein as well. Joe’s favorite thing to do is eating food. Ravi thinks that Dillon wants to be his friend, but as the days go on, Dillon begins to pick on him. Not only that, but people have trouble understanding Ravi because

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