Surviving the Applewhites - Hardcover

Tolan, Stephanie S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066236029 ISBN 13: 9780066236025

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 2002

Synopsis

Having been thrown out of every school in his home state, Jake Semple arrives at the Creative Academy, a special school run by an unusual and outspoken family, where he is soon befriended by a girl who helps him cope with the wackiness of his new surroundings.

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Review:

"Tolan has pulled off something special here." -- -Booklist (starred review)

Tolan has pulled off something special here. -- Booklist (starred review)

"Tolan has pulled off something special here."----Booklist (starred review)

Tolan has pulled off something special here. ----Booklist (starred review)"

-Tolan has pulled off something special here.-----Booklist (starred review)

From the Back Cover:

Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out, too.

Now there's only one place left that will take him -- a home school run by the most outrageous, forgetful, chaotic, quarrelsome family you'll ever meet. Each and every Applewhite is an artist through and through -- except E.D., the smart, scruffy girl with a deep longing for order and predictability. E.D. and Jake, so nearly the same age, are quickly paired in the family's first experiment in "cooperative education."

The two clash immediately, of course. The only thing they have in common is the determination to survive the family's eccentricities.

In Stephanie S. Tolan's hilarious tale, a local production of The Sound of Music directed, stagecrafted, choreographed, and costumed by Apple-whites -- brings the family together and shows E.D. and Jake the value of the special gifts they've had all along.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066236029
• ISBN 13: 9780066236025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216