They are a bit awkward with each other at first but eventually discover that they are similar and complimentary in their individual strangeness. Even better, she was excited about it."Ĭalder and Petra live on the same street a few blocks from school, but they haven't been friends up until now. He had never heard a teacher admit that she didn't know what she was doing. "It all depends on what we get interested in – or what gets interested in us," she had added, as if this was obvious. She had announced on the first day of school that she had no idea what they were going to work on that year, or how. She is introduced thus: "It was a strange thing for a teacher to say. Hussey, and she stands tall with all the other Cool Teachers of Children's Literature in A Year of Reading's List. The school was begun by John Dewey, who "believed in doing, in working on relevant projects in order to learn how to think", as the author describes him. The main characters, Calder and Petra, are two sixth graders living in Chicago and attending the University School in Hyde Park. I was looking forward to it and it lived up to all the anticipation. I read this book in the last few weeks of summer vacation, after having it recommended by several students and teacher friends. By Blue Balliett, illustrated by Brett Helquist.
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