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Chain Gang Elementary (Paperback) Loot Price: R400
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Chain Gang Elementary (Paperback): Jonathan Grant

Chain Gang Elementary (Paperback)

Jonathan Grant

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"In the first place, God created idiots. This was for practice. Then he created School Boards." -Mark Twain After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a "school of excellence." When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions explode. Welcome to Chain Gang Elementary, home to vast right-wing conspiracies, 3rd-grade gangsters, and bake sale embezzlers-where toxic childhood secrets boil over, reformers go stark raving mad, and culture wars escalate into armed conflict. A tale of war that is poignant, timely, and brutally funny, Chain Gang Elementary is a One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for the K-6 world. First Sentence: In the twelfth year of his marriage, sixteen months before the shooting, twenty-one shopping days until Christmas, and eight hours before he reckoned for the tenth time that his wife didn't love him, Richard Gray met a woman who would have roughly the same effect on his life a tornado has on a trailer park.

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Imprint: Thornbriar Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2011
First published: July 2011
Authors: Jonathan Grant
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 978-0-9834921-0-8
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
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LSN: 0-9834921-0-7
Barcode: 9780983492108

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