Project June Bug

ISBN-13: 9780595701056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 184 str.

Jackie Minniti

Opis

"With focus and characters as mainstream as "Main Street," this fine novel is far more a great read than message tale."-Tom Corcoran, author of "Air Dance Iguana," "Jimmy Buffett-The Key West Years," and "Key West in Black and White"Life is good for Jenna Bianchi. She's just started her second year of teaching English at Morrison High School, a job she loves. She has a pet parrot with attitude. And there's a handsome math teacher who wants to be more than just friends. But everything changes when a defiant, disruptive tenth grader walks into her classroom.With a smart mouth and a swagger to match, Michael Tayler is a problem for Jenna from the very first day. His school record screams "troublemaker," and Jenna wonders if the new year is already doomed. But when she reads Michael's first poetry assignment, she recognizes it for what it truly is: a cry for help.Michael's presence sets into motion a chain of events that turns Jenna's perfect life upside-down and threatens to destroy her career. Faced with a challenge unlike anything she's ever known, Jenna commits to doing what no one has done for Michael Tayler before.