ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School

Dial (March 13, 2008)
Reading age : 12 - 15 years

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ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool: A Year in an American High School

For this book, I spent a year back at Walter Payton College Prep in Chicago. Eight students were kind enough to let me follow them around with a notebook. We talked about drama with friends, upcoming parties, and college applications. These students’ stories made this book. The book is also a journal of the day-to-day life of one American high school, from homecoming to prom.

★  “The considerable strengths of the work come from Cooper’s genius for observation and confident refusal to dramatize what he finds.” 
— Publishers Weekly, starred review

“[A] wonder of a book.” 
— Chicago Sun-Times