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Saving Miss Oliver's
Hardcover
Series: Miss Oliver's School for Girls
Publisher Price: $34.99
ISBN13: 9781513261324
Publisher: Westwinds Pr
Published: Sep 18 2018
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The fate of the beloved school is hanging in the balance. . .
From the very first paragraphs, Saving Miss Oliver's is an engaging read and is very highly recommended to all general fiction readers.
--Midwest Book Review
There are moments here that indicate that Davenport, who, as his bio notes, 'had a long career in education, ' was probably an excellent teacher, like a scene in which Francis explicates a Robert Frost poem with his class, and there are some wonderful students, like the head of the school newspaper who is conducting research about the sex lives of students. . . A book for anyone who's wondered about the inner workings and worries of a school administration.
The prestigious boarding school Miss Oliver's School for Girls is on the cusp of going under. The trustees just fired the headmistress of the last thirty-five years, and the alumnae and students are angry and determined to hate her successor, the new--and male--head Fred Kindler. If only he can gain the support of the legendary senior teacher Francis Plummer, then Fred might have a fighting chance to save the school; but no one except Francis's wife and the school librarian, Peggy, is willing to give Fred a chance.
With Fred's career on the line and the Plummers' marriage at stake, will Miss Oliver's survive to be the school it once was?
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