Julie Schumacher
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap
“Wise and hilarious and heartbreaking.”—Richard...
“Wise and hilarious and heartbreaking.”—Richard...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
When sixth-grader Livvie decides to throw a chain letter in the trash, bad luck ensues.
Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn't worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it awayb6suntil sheb2ss humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Peter Finch's house. Peter's dad has crooked teeth, a plastic wonderland in his...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the Midwest ... His once-promising writing career is in the doldrums, as is his romantic life, in part as the result of his unwise use of his private affairs for his novels ... In short, his life is a tale of woe, and the vehicle this ... novel uses to tell that tale is a series of ... letters...