“Hard times like these make you better…as long as you have the right attitude about things,” this perceptive teacher says. But it’s the threat to the sixth-grade teacher’s job, likely to be eliminated in the wake of tax protests and school budget cuts, that really brings them back together for a series of campaigns that seem to lose the battle but win the war. Terupt seems to know what’s happening and devises a project to keep them talking. A spur-of-the-moment spin-the-bottle game goes awry, temporarily tearing the group apart. Danielle develops diabetes, and Lexie’s mother has breast cancer. Anna and Danielle scheme to become half sisters in reality. Peter and Jeffrey join the wrestling team Luke’s elected to student government. The English teacher loves words as much as Jessica does. Month by month, in alternating first-person accounts, these likable young people describe their first year in middle school. Terupt’s class in fifth and sixth grade and to their favorite teacher, whose job is in jeopardy. Seventh-graders Alexia, Anna, Danielle, Jessica, Jeffrey, Luke, and Peter struggle to hold on to the bonds formed in Mr.
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