Up the Down Staircase
Classiques (romans), Littérature générale (romans), Humour (romans)
Audio avec voix de synthèse, Braille automatisé
Résumé
Bel Kaufman s bestselling classic about a young teacher s efforts to reach her students and the odd amusing and poignant ways that the students respondWhen Miss Barrett arrives at Calvin Coolidge High fresh from earning… literature degrees at Hunter College she can hardly wait to shape young minds Instead she encounters broken windows no supplies students who would rather be anyplace else and a stifling bureaucracy that makes her job more difficult at every turn Narrated through hilarious inter-office memos students notes and other scraps drawn from the waste basket Up the Down Staircase stands as the seminal novel of the American public school system a beleaguered institution perpetually redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized This ebook features an illustrated biography of Bel Kaufman including photos from the author s personal collection