Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
Review Quotes: An NPR Backseat Book Club Selection
An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book
An Arizona Grand Canyon Reader Award Winner
An Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award Winner
A Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award Winner
A Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award Winner
A Nebraska Golden Sower Book Award Winner
An Iowa Children's Choice Book Award Winner
A Massachusetts Children's Book Award Winner
Nominated for 17 State Book Awards
"Even the accident toward which this novel is inevitably headed is no accident; it is as masterfully set up and skillfully concealed as the rest of this riveting story." --John Irving
"This powerful and emotional story is likely to spur discussion."--
Publishers Weekly "No one is perfect in this feel-good story, but everyone benefits, including sentimentally inclined readers."--
Kirkus Reviews "Compelling. . . . Readers will find much to ponder on the power of forgiveness."--
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