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Ms. Hempel Chronicles
A Literary Fiction Novel by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Subgenres:
- Coming-of-Age,
- School Stories
This book is for you if you're into...
- Teachers navigating awkward firsts in and out of the classroom
- Middle school settings where memory and daydreams blur with reality
Ms. Hempel Chronicles is a novel of a devoted young teacher finding her way. Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words into the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own report cards, or bring up personal experiences while teaching a sex-education class?
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum finds characters at their most vulnerable, then explores those precarious moments in sharp, graceful prose. From this most innovative of young writers comes another journey down the rabbit hole to the wonderland of middle school, memory, daydreaming, and the extraordinary business of growing up.
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