Project June Bug

With focus and characters as mainstream as <i>Main Street</i> this fine novel is far more a great read than message tale.-<b>Tom Corcoran</b> author of <I>Air Dance Iguana</I> <I>Jimmy Buffett-The Key West Years</I> and <I>Key West in Black and White</I></p>Life is good for Jenna Bianchi. She's just started her second year of teaching English at Morrison High School a job she loves. She has a pet parrot with attitude. And there's a handsome math teacher who wants to be more than just friends. But everything changes when a defiant disruptive tenth grader walks into her classroom.</p>With a smart mouth and a swagger to match Michael Tayler is a problem for Jenna from the very first day. His school record screams <I>troublemaker</I> and Jenna wonders if the new year is already doomed. But when she reads Michael's first poetry assignment she recognizes it for what it truly is: a cry for help.</p>Michael's presence sets into motion a chain of events that turns Jenna's perfect life upside-down and threatens to destroy her career. Faced with a challenge unlike anything she's ever known Jenna commits to doing what no one has done for Michael Tayler before.</p>