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Aladdin, April 2011
Hardcover, 256 pages
ISBN-10: 1416980237
ISBN-13: 9781416980230
Grades: 4 - 8
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Twelve-year-old May is living in a desolate situation with only her grandmother, who is depressed about the absence of May’s mother, and her father, who works long hours and is almost never around. Due to her circumstance and her resentment over having to live in a low-income neighborhood, May often finds herself picking fights and getting into trouble.
But when May is caught graffiti-ing her least favorite teacher’s classroom, she is faced with a choice: expulsion or one-on-one summer school with the teacher she most detests. Begrudgingly, May chooses summer school and ultimately learns that her teacher has a secret past--and might just hold the key to answers no one else will give May about her mother.
But when May is caught graffiti-ing her least favorite teacher’s classroom, she is faced with a choice: expulsion or one-on-one summer school with the teacher she most detests. Begrudgingly, May chooses summer school and ultimately learns that her teacher has a secret past--and might just hold the key to answers no one else will give May about her mother.
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"Brimming with emotion and insight into adolescent rage, Galante's prose investigates the impact of loss and the importance of making amends."
-Publishers Weekly, February 2011
-Publishers Weekly, February 2011
"Galante deftly weaves together the parallel stories of May and her teacher, while demonstrating how it’s their work together, like Holling Hoodhood’s sessions with Mrs. Baker in The Wednesday Wars (2007), that changes them both."
- KIRKUS, March 2011
- KIRKUS, March 2011
"May’s voice is sometimes humorous, at times heartbreaking, and always authentic. Though foreshadowed, the conclusion brings each disparate piece of this touching novel together for a satisfying end to a taut and believable novel."
-- Maria B. Salvadore, formerly at Washington DC Public Library
- School Library Journal, April 2011
- School Library Journal, April 2011
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