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Flying Solo

Flying Solo Hardcover - 1998

by Fletcher, Ralph

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first

When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, "Flying Solo" follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.

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New York: Clarion Books, 1998. library marks rear endpapers only, otherwise book clean and tight.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.
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Details

  • Title Flying Solo
  • Author Fletcher, Ralph
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarion Books, New York
  • Date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 010462
  • ISBN 9780395873236 / 0395873231
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.6 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 590
  • Library of Congress subjects Schools - Fiction, Death - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010775
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

When the substitute for Mr. "Fab" Fabiano never shows up and his sixth-grade students are on their own, they set out to prove that they can run the class by themselves. With a little ingenuity and some careful planning, they might just succeed. But when a fight breaks out between Bastian Fauvell and Rachel White over a classmate, Tommy Feathers, who died six months earlier, everything begins to fall apart. Can Rachel deal with the anxieties that plunged her into silence the day Tommy died? Inventive and uniquely constructed, "Flying Solo" follows Mr. Fab's students hour by hour as they tackle the challenges of an unusual school day.

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"Fletcher expertly balances a wide variety of emotions...thoughtful, absorbing novel...a story that will linger long after the book is closed." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

The rich and complex emotional lives within a classroom of unsupervised students boil toward eruption the day an exceptional teacher is absent....Fletcher creates a testament to effective teaching in his realistic portrait of Mr. Fabiano as both caring and intelligent. A novel that is funny, real, and often moving.
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