Okay, what do you do if your teacher doesn't show up to teach one day, and the substitute teacher doesn't come either? This is the choice that is before a sixth grade class, and they decide to put it to a vote: Do we send someone down to the office, or can we handle it ourselves? Then, look at the situation through the eyes of all the different students with their different lives and different issues. This is an appealing school story that leads you to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Hmmm....never thought about it that way.
Ages 9-12 144 pages
Recommended by: Barb Langridge, abookandahug.com
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When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, "Flying Solo" follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.---from the publisher
