About this Book

Maybe it's because his mother was a teacher. Or maybe it's because he has spent most of his life in classrooms as a wide-eyed first grader, a naive college student, a seminarian, and now as a visiting writer in residencies across the country. But there's something about school that infuses the work of Donald Davis. Collected here are Davis's all-time favorite school stories. Whether we're traveling around the world with Miss Daisy, the fourth grade teacher who was integrating arithmetic, geography, ...