The Classroom When Nature Calls, Hang Up! - Couverture rigide

Robin Mellom (www.robinmellom.com) used to teach middle-schoolers, and now she writes about them. (Any resemblance between fictional characters and her previous real-life students is purely coincidental. Probably.) She is the author of The Classroom: The Epic Documentary of a Not-Yet-Epic Kid, The Classroom: Student Council Smackdown!, and The Classroom: Trick Out My School! as well as Ditched: A Love Story. She lives with her husband and son on the central coast of California.


Through a freak incident involving a school bus, a Labrador retriever, and twenty-four rolls of toilet paper, Stephen Gilpin knew that someday he would be an artist. He applied himself diligently, and many years later he has found himself the illustrator of around thirty children's books. He lives in Hiawatha, Kansas, with his genius wife, Angie, and a whole bunch of kids. Visit his Web site at www.sgilpin.com.

A documentary crew has descended upon Westside Middle School to detail the life of an average seventh grader named Trevor Jones and his classmates.

The one-on-one interviews, film footages, and camp journals will chronicle the dangerous and highly awkward overnight field trip to Camp Whispering Pines. Trevor Jones will have plenty to worry about: snakes, bears, dining halls, and eighth graders. To make matters worse, Trevor is paired with a special "sensitivity buddy"-longtime frenemy Corey Long.

It's possible that with a lot of luck (and a little help), Trevor Jones might come out of this trip alive. If he can survive Corey Long and the outdoors, he may finally have a chance at being epic.