My Best Year

by William Hazelgrove

Overview

Paul and Julie Clampet want their autistic son Toby to have a great senior year in high school. They want him to catch a winning touchdown, ride in the homecoming parade, and go to the homecoming dance. After being expelled from his high school they find a broken down school in Indiana where they hire the teachers and kids who conspire to give their son his best year ever. Funny, poignant, and a comment on the times we live in, My Best Year is up there with Perotta’s Election for diagramming the heartbreak and triumph that is high school.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633931510
Publisher:	Koehler Books
Publication date:	04/15/2016
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

William Hazelgrove is the national best-selling author of ten Novels: Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, The Pitcher, Real Santa, Jack Pine, The Pitcher 2, and The Pitcher 3. His books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards, and Junior Library Guild Selections. Tobacco Sticks, The Pitcher, and Real Santa have been optioned for movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway's birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications and has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered. The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today have all covered his books with features. He runs a cultural blog, The View from Hemingway's Attic and lives in Chicago.