by Gordon Korman     

The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger management issues; Parker, who can’t read; Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in this class—or any class; and Elaine (rhymes with pain). The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117. Their teacher is Mr. Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He was once a rising star, but his career was shattered by a cheating scandal that still haunts him. After years of phoning it in, he’s months away from early retirement. But the superintendent plans to torpedo that idea—and it involves assigning Mr. Kermit to the Unteachables. The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction—and maybe even a shot at redemption.

Senior 

THE PERFECT SCORE

 by Rob Butea       

Sometimes kids do the wrong things for the right reasons. No one likes the statewide assessment tests. Not the kids in Mrs. Woods” sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It’s not as if everyone doesn’t already have enough to worry about. With test time approaching, the whole school is in a frenzy—students, teachers, the administration. When one of the kids has a big idea for acing the tests, they’re all in. But things get ugly before they get better, and in the end, the real meaning of the perfect score surprises them all.