When a game of roughhousing goes too far, Mr. Williams, the principal, to agree to let the class go outside to play in the snow on their reward day.

He even gives them a party day as a reward to reaching certain goals and gets Mrs. Terupt, who has a way of engaging everyone and making them want to do better. Alexia is too concerned with manipulating the other girls to pay much attention to the new teacher and Danielle is too worried about being manipulated by Alexia.Īfter a while, all of the students warm up to Mr. Terupt devises, while the more morose Jeffrey just hopes to be ignored. Luke is the most studious and always has great grades, so he appreciates the creative class projects Mr. Having moved from California because her parents have just divorced, Jessica appreciates the way he relates to her since he is also new, and Anna, who tries to stay in the background because her mother is a social outcast, likes the way he subtly draws her into class discussions. Terupt is cool about correcting his behavior. Peter, the class cut-up, tries to see what he can get away with and is impressed when Mr. Told through the eyes of seven students, it is about one year in the life of a fifth-grade class and their new teacher at the fictitious Snow Hill School.Īs the school year opens, the fifth-grade class of Snow Hill School in Connecticut meets the new teacher, Mr. Terupt is the 2010 debut children's novel by Rob Buyea. But things get ugly before they get better, and in the end, the real meaning of the perfect score surprises them all.Because of Mr. When one of the kids has a big idea for acing the tests, they’re all in. The whole school is in a frenzy with test time approaching-kids, teachers, the administration.

NATALIE, know-it-all and aspiring lawyer, loves to follow the rules-only this year, she’s about to break them all. SCOTT’s got a big brain and an even bigger heart, especially when it comes to his grandfather, but his good intentions always backfire in spectacular ways. TREVOR acts tough and mean, but as much as he hates school, he hates being home even more. Football-crazy GAVIN has always struggled with reading and feels as dumb as his high school–dropout father.

Under pressure to be the top gymnast her mother expects her to be, RANDI starts to wonder what her destiny truly holds. It’s not as if the kids don’t already have things to worry about. No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Terupt and its sequels comes The Perfect Score, a new middle-grade school story with a very special cast of unforgettable characters who discover that getting the perfect score-both on the test and in life-is perhaps not so perfect after all. From the beloved author of Because of Mr.

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