{"product_id":"9781453256046","title":"Up the Down Staircase","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor every teacher fighting to make a difference—the timeless bestseller about the hope, heartache, and hilarity of working in the public school system.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City’s Calvin Coolidge High, she’s fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead, she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Narrated in “an almost presciently postmodern style” through interoffice memos, notes and doodles, lesson plans, suggestion-box insults, letters, and other dispatches from the front lines, \u003ci\u003eUp the Down Staircase \u003c\/i\u003estands as the seminal novel of a beleaguered American public school system perpetually redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hailed as “the funniest book written in America since \u003ci\u003eCatch-22,\u003c\/i\u003e” \u003ci\u003eUp the Down Staircase\u003c\/i\u003e spent over a year on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list, has been adapted for the stage, and was made into an award-winning feature film starring Sandy Dennis (\u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e). It remains an essential and highly enjoyable read that will leave you laughing and shaking your head at the same time.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Bel Kaufman including photos from the author’s personal collection.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143287849200,"sku":"9781453256046","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781453256046_p0.jpg?v=1763849142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781453256046","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}