Features
- Reading level: Ages 9-12
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
- Published by: Dial March 13, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0803731698
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0803731691
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Book Dimensions:
7.1 x 5.7 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 10.4 ounces
Product Description
Elisha Cooper spent a year hanging out at a Chicago high school— listening, watching, questioning, and sketching the students. He followed eight kids in particular, mostly seniors, through their entire year, and by telling their specific stories—of classes, extra-curriculars, friends, romances, and family—he gives us a more general picture of what it’s like to be a high school student today. Part documentary, part soap opera, part sketchbook, this is an eye-opening, thoroughly entertaining account—one that will appeal equally to readers who are looking forward to high school and those who are looking back.
About The Author
Elisha Cooper is the author of the acclaimed memoir
Crawling: A Father’s First Year, the sketchbook
A Year in New Dance! among many other illustrated books. He lives in New York City.
Reader Reviews
It's hard for adults to imagine having to survive high school again, and maybe it's hard for high schoolers to imagine what anything beyond might hold, so this book has difficult territory to cover from the outset. How can the author make fresh what we've all been through and often hoped to forget? Fortunately, Cooper's patient observations and painterly eye let us slip in unseen into the chaos. With a point of view that is clearly honest, sometimes stern, and deliciously wry, he manages to pace us through a place that seems to spin at the speed of teen. It's hard not to think of the ordinary as heroes, and therefore vice versa, and it makes this story a wild success. Definitely for your must-read list!
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