This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

Author:Paula Danziger [Danziger, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2006-03-23T05:00:00+00:00

The eagle has landed—that proves it.

This place is for the birds.

CHAPTER 17

FACT SHEET

ABOUT SCHOOL

1. This is definitely not Alan Shepard High School.

2. There’s only one person in the senior class, Karlena Leibnitz. I bet that there’s a short yeardisk at the end of the year.

3. There were only twelve kids total in the four high school grades. Now there are fifteen. Actually, there isn’t even a separate high school. All forty kids from first through twelfth grade (nicknamed the Eagles) are in the one large room with portable divider screens, computers, and a library.

4. The very short people running and crawling through our classroom sometimes are the kids from the other room who range in age from babyhood through five and are nicknamed the Eaglettes.

5. There are no cheerleading tryouts. There’s no squad. There’s not even a team, and if there were, there would not be other high school teams to compete against.

6. Cafeteria food is disgusting. Today for lunch we had mystery dehydrated substance and lumpy mashed sweet potatoes.

7. There is no one here like the kids at Shepard. It’s not that they’re all barfburgers. It’s just that they are different and wouldn’t fit in with us. (And I don’t really fit in with them. It’s so hard. Sometimes I want to tell them that in my old school I was someone . . . so that they know . . . so that I don’t feel so all alone. But I don’t think that would be a good move.)

8. There’s definitely no one here like Matthew.

9. Mr. Wilcox, the teacher, is also the principal, chief guidance counselor, and media specialist. He’s cuter than any teacher at Shepard . . . also nicer. He’s got a sense of humor and he actually likes to teach. With his smile and gorgeous blue eyes, Mr. Wilcox could probably have been a video star. To answer the question that I know you’ll ask—yes, he’s married . . . . To answer the question that I know Cosmosa will ask—no, he doesn’t fool around.

10. There is no truant officer at the school because there is no place to go when you cut. (It’s kind of hard to think about a senior cut day, with only the one senior, Karlena.)

11. Every student has to do a school service project. Mine is to work with the Eaglettes. They are very short and sticky. Eventually I will have to do a community service project as well.

12. Each new kid is assigned a guide. Mine is this guy named Hal Brenner, but I’ve never asked him to guide me. He’s a real brain, a junior. Tall and skinny, he’s funny (funny ha ha, not funny weird). All of the kids here really seem to like and respect him. He’s okay, I guess, but I have a feeling that he’d never fit in on earth . . . at least not with our group.

13. Starr’s guide is Hal’s younger brother, Tucker. I think she has a crush on him.

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