The Last Boy at St. Edith's

Zusatztext Malone´s debut is a sweet! candid novel about fitting in! messing up! and making amends. After seventh grader Jeremy Miner´s Massachusetts private school reverts to enrolling girls only! every boy at St. Edith´s leaves—except him. Since his single mother is a school employee and he attends free of charge! it isn´t an option. Malone creates a charmingly hapless protagonist in Jeremy! who! feeling outnumbered! decides that he´ll attempt to get expelled. He enlists the aid of his friend! Claudia! a headstrong aspiring filmmaker! who announces a one-word strategy: "Pranks." Harmless shenanigans (such as assembling stolen garden gnomes at the school´s entrance) turn dangerous when Jeremy and Claudia tamper with doorknobs! and a classmate has an asthma attack while locked in the bathroom. Jeremy´s doubts about his scheme magnify when his innocent sister is implicated in a prank! and his mother learns the truth. Jeremy´s self-deprecating! sardonic humor and Claudia´s ample self-confidence generate some authentically funny episodes as Malone´s story addresses individuality! conformity! and finding friendship. Ages 8–12. Informationen zum Autor Lee Gjertsen Malone is a Massachusetts transplant via Long Island, Brooklyn, and Ithaca, New York. As a journalist she's written about everything from wedding planning to the banking crisis to how to build your own homemade camera satellite. Her interests include amateur cheese making, traveling, associating with animals, shushing people in movie theaters, kickboxing, and blinking very rapidly for no reason. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband, daughter, and a rotating cast of pets. Klappentext Seventh-grader Jeremy Miner, the only boy in a school of 475 girls, unleashes a series of pranks in hopes of getting expelled.The Last Boy at St. Edith’s ONE IT WAS THE THIRD DAY of the ninth week of school when Jeremy Miner decided to get kicked out of seventh grade. He’d been sitting on a school bus waiting to go to MacArthur Prep to cheer on his sister Rachel and the rest of the St. Edith’s championship volleyball team. He’d been late, one of the last people on the bus, which meant he had to sit up front behind Mr. Reynolds. Jeremy probably should have liked Mr. Reynolds more than he did. Reynolds was the language arts teacher, and Jeremy loved to read, not to mention he was the only male teacher at the school and the faculty advisor of the Film Club, Jeremy’s favorite after-school activity. But there was something irritating about Reynolds. Maybe it was the fussy way he laid his finger next to his mouth when he was listening to a student, or how he called Jeremy “Mr. Miner” with such overpronounced emphasis on the “Mr.” that the girls in the back of the class would titter. The driver was starting to close the door when Claudia darted onto the bus and slid into the seat next to Jeremy, the yard of ball chain wrapped around her neck and wrists looking like armor in contrast to the shredded pink tights she wore under her plaid skirt. “Did you hear?” she hissed. Claudia Hoffmann was one of Jeremy’s best friends. She was a year older than everyone else in their grade because her mother was Italian and her father was German and they’d lived in London, New Zealand, and Hong Kong when she was little. Somewhere along the way she missed a year of school. Claudia sometimes took the extra year as permission to dominate everyone else. (Not that she actually needed permission to do what she wanted most of the time.) “No, what?” “Andrew Marks transferred to Hereford Country Day.” Jeremy let out a long breath and slumped down in his seat. “Oh no.” Jeremy hadn’t particularly liked Andrew—nobody did—he brushed his teeth only about ...

Product details

• Authors: Lee Gjertsen Malone
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781481444354
• ISBN: 978-1-4814-4435-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Max; Max
• Subject: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Mankind