The Superteacher Project by Gordon Korman

Author:Gordon Korman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

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Rosalie Arnette

To succeed in the future, you have to be smart, focused, hardworking, and tough, but it also helps to have connections. And there’s no better connection at Brightling than Avalon Pappas, editor in chief of the Brightling Barker, our school paper.

If there’s an eighth grader I admire more than Cassidy, it has to be her. Avalon’s going places—in high school, college, and beyond.

She runs the Barker’s basement office like a real newsroom, complete with reporters, feature writers, photographers, and designers who create the paper’s layout every week on our iPad Pros.

I know most middle school papers are kind of boring, with articles about what the recycling club is doing, and how the bricks outside the library have to be tuck-pointed, whatever that is. But Avalon believes in hard-hitting journalism. Like the last editorial she wrote: she said whoever rode the Big Wheel on that video from the seventh-grade chat must know what happened to the missing field hockey trophy. Principal Candiotti got on the PA system and declared a school-wide investigation when that came out. The Barker makes a difference!

Sometimes Avalon pushes it too far, like when she demanded the resignation of whichever PTA member chose Flaxplosion bars for the big fundraiser. That was a little close to home. A lot of kids know that my mother is the guilty party—including Kevin, who also works on the Barker staff. He had a lot to say on the subject. Kevin has a lot to say about everything.

Avalon became a legend at the Barker two years ago, when she was only in sixth grade. She came up with the idea for the annual Brightling Teacher of the Year contest. Basically, we put out a box in the hall outside the Barker office and kids can come and vote for their favorite teacher. When we release the results, it’s always the Barker’s most popular issue. Avalon says we have to print triple the usual number of copies that week, and our webpage gets a lot more views too.

I’m at one of the iPads, working on my latest feature—“THE BOBCATS’ WINNING STREAK: AN INSIDER’S VIEW”—when Avalon finishes counting the day’s votes.

“Who is this Aidact guy?” she asks. “I’ve never heard of him.”

“He’s new,” Kevin supplies from the desk where he works on his weekly column, Krumlich’s Korner. “He teaches mostly seventh-grade classes.”

“And he’s coach of the Bobcats,” I add. “The team really likes him.”

It leaves kind of a sour taste in my mouth, because so does my mother. But you can’t deny the results. The Bobcats are winning. And it’s more than just great coaching. It’s that Mr. Aidact supports us one million percent. In games, he fights every bad call that goes against us and he’s never wrong. It’s almost like he has slow-motion video replay running nonstop in his head, so he can see what nobody else can. When you get whistled for a foul that’s not your fault, he’s right there in the umpire’s face. Around the league, the officials have started calling him Eagle Eyes.

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