"Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers ... histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the layout of desks and chairs. Buzbee ... weaves his own biography into this overview, approaching his subject as a student, a father, and a teacher"--Amazon.com.
"On the eve of their class trip, best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee each learn their parents are getting divorced. When their class trip turns out to be a dud, they sneak away to the old lighthouse to discuss this new 'divorce stuff.' When they unexpectedly fall asleep, they wake up to find San Francisco as they knew it gone -- and meet a young man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger. Lee and Joan wonder: Where are they? What year is it? Why don't their cell phones work? How will they get back? Do they even want to? Will life ever be the same?"--from back cover.
Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names, they have both learned that their parents are getting divorced, and while on their class trip to San Francisco they go off on their own to talk about the divorces and fall asleep, but when they wake up they find the Golden Gate Bridge gone, and they meet a man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
Unhappy after his parents move to a weird subdivision and become workaholics, thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.
Twelve-year-old Meg travels the rooftops and streets of 1862 London, England, in search of her missing brother, Orion, accompanied by a family friend, the famed author Charles Dickens, whose quest is to find his next novel.
