{"product_id":"9780983492108","title":"Chain Gang Elementary","description":"\"In the first place, God created idiots. This was for practice. Then he created School Boards.\" -Mark Twain\u003cp\u003eAfter a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a \"school of excellence.\" When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions explode. Welcome to Chain Gang Elementary, home to vast right-wing conspiracies, 3rd-grade gangsters, and bake sale embezzlers-where toxic childhood secrets boil over, reformers go stark raving mad, and culture wars escalate into armed conflict. A tale of war that is poignant, timely, and brutally funny, Chain Gang Elementary is a One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest for the K-6 world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Sentence: In the twelfth year of his marriage, sixteen months before the shooting, twenty-one shopping days until Christmas, and eight hours before he reckoned for the tenth time that his wife didn't love him, Richard Gray met a woman who would have roughly the same effect on his life a tornado has on a trailer park.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Grant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034629783792,"sku":"9780983492108","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780983492108_p0.jpg?v=1763887045","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780983492108","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}