Miracle at Monty Middle School

Marvin begins his first day of eighth grade feeling like a loser -- fat and depressed. After all, he wasn’t the smartest kid there ever was, and even his school – Monty Middle – tried to hide him, with 11 other “nobodies,” in Room 122 in the back of the school in a special “Drop Out Prevention” D.O.P. class.

But then “miracles” begin to happen the day Mr. Martin, a charismatic African-American writer turned teacher, walks into his class. He’s a teacher like no other, who helps Marvin, along...