The Devil and Devon Sparks

I Am Troubled By The Memory Of A Student I Never Had The Chance To Teach. He Came To School The First Day With A Knife In His Pocket Got Caught And Was Immediately Expelled. Suppose He Never Got Caught? . Devon Sparks A Thirteen-Year-Old Black Kid Arrives At Central Middle School With A Knife In His Pocket. He Is Assigned To Mrs. Dana Sims The Devil In The Guise Of A Sixth-Grade Teacher. Her First Lesson? Give Him A Rope To Tie Up His Pants So His Crack Won’T Show. . The Background Scenery Includes Middle School Antics A Chicken Manure Science Project A Church Revival A Sixth-Grade Atheist Learning To Live With Integration A Tornado Drill And Two Baptisms One With Water The Other With Fire. From The First Page The Reader Is On A Hilarious Deadly Trip With One Foot In Alabama And The Other In Hell.