{"product_id":"9781616580483","title":"Room One","description":"Genre: fiction (268 pages)\u003cp\u003eKeywords: high school, public education, coming-of-age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe words stared back, dark and ominous. So, naturally, I wrote them again:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy name, not that it matters, is Thomas Berg. And I’m really not supposed to be here.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo begins ROOM ONE: A Story of Public Education. In this new\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enovel, master storyteller Michael Kanaly turns his unflinching eye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon the troubled, yet often amusing world of public education. ROOM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eONE is the story of Thomas Berg, certified Room Oner, trapped in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe chaos of disruptive classrooms, struggling to extract himself from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea dismal cycle of poor grades and failure. All while fighting a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edeteriorating educational system that seems to exclude him at every\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eturn. Observant, often wickedly funny, Berg senses that something\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eis wrong—with himself, with the system itself—a defect that needs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto be exposed and examined, in order to be corrected. In this all-too-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereal examination of public education, Michael Kanaly looks at the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomplex questions facing students and educators today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn innovative and provocative book, ROOM ONE takes the reader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einside the classroom, into the very heart of public education. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdition: 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Pilot Hill Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kanaly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49966921384176,"sku":"9781616580483","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616580483","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}