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Summary
Author Biography
Leslie Baldacci is still a classroom teacher and writes for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments | |
The Mad Crapper | p. 1 |
Welcome to the Neighborhood | p. 5 |
"Bring Two No. 2 Pencils" | p. 9 |
My Assignment | p. 17 |
The Farewell Tour | p. 19 |
The Belly of the Beast | p. 23 |
Nesting | p. 26 |
The Seventh Graders Arrive | p. 35 |
Getting to Know Them | p. 42 |
Al Gore Visits the Billy Goat | p. 47 |
The Kids Are All Right, but the Teachers Are Wrecks | p. 50 |
Violence | p. 56 |
A Five-Week Reorganization | p. 63 |
Learning | p. 66 |
An Observation | p. 78 |
Crime and Punishment | p. 81 |
Thanksgiving Break | p. 86 |
An Intervention | p. 89 |
The Bathroom Incident | p. 93 |
A Winning Streak | p. 98 |
So Far | p. 104 |
The Mid-Winter Lull | p. 106 |
The Second Half | p. 109 |
Hip Hop 101 | p. 113 |
Bottoming Out | p. 117 |
No Coincidences | p. 124 |
Pierre | p. 126 |
Spring Planting | p. 129 |
Bad Things Happen in Threes | p. 132 |
"Remediation" | p. 137 |
Assumptions | p. 141 |
Livin' on the Edge | p. 144 |
The End of the Seventh Grade | p. 148 |
Fairyland | p. 152 |
The More Things Change | p. 162 |
Cult of Personality | p. 168 |
Trouble | p. 171 |
Dance Africa | p. 175 |
Loving Louis | p. 179 |
The Downside | p. 184 |
Another Christmas | p. 188 |
Cruel January | p. 194 |
A Prayer in School | p. 201 |
Recess! | p. 204 |
The Teacher Certification Test | p. 207 |
Midnight Catches a Snake | p. 210 |
Lost Parents | p. 213 |
Mother's Day | p. 215 |
Guns of Summer | p. 218 |
Going From Here | p. 220 |
Graduation | p. 224 |
Postscript | p. 229 |
Index | p. 231 |
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