Agent: Elizabeth Harding, Curtis Brown Ltd. Chapters rotate narration between students and administrators, giving varied perspectives to this humorous classroom underdog story that champions teamwork, kindness, and hidden sparks. Kermit stands up for the kids, and both students and teacher realize the value of their abilities. Kermit’s former fiancée’s daughter turns out to be the new teacher next door and meddles with disciplining the bunch, Mr. The small class is known for being troublesome: Parker can’t make sense of letters, tough Elaine terrifies the others, Rahim sleeps all the time, and Kiana ends up in the class when her stepmother fails to register her for school. After the superintendent assigns him to the “Self-Contained Special Eighth-Grade Class”-widely called “the Unteachables”-he resigns himself to getting through the year, transferring his coffee and crossword habit to the new room, and ignoring his new students. Kermit was once among the best teachers at Greenwich Middle School, but a cheating scandal 25 years ago dampened his passion for the job, and now he is biding time until his early retirement. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction-and maybe even a shot a redemption.Mr.

He was once a rising star, but his career was shattered by a cheating scandal that still haunts him. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117.

The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. Bu the superintendent has his own plans to torpedo that idea-and it involves assigning Mr. After years of phoning it in, he is finally one year away from early retirement.

Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, The Unteachables, Pop, Schooled, and the Masterminds series.

Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than ninety middle grade and teen novels. The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117. The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks, like Aldo, with anger management issues Parker, who can’t read Kiana, who doesn’t even belong in this class-or any class and Elaine (rhymes with pain). Gordon Korman’s newest stand-alone novel, featuring Greenwich Middle School’s class of outcasts and miscreants - The Unteachables!

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