America's Report Card: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 1416540520
- ISBN-13
- 9781416540526
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-06-19
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- John McNally
Description
Having written a scathing essay about her disgust with the government's standardized testing process, Jainey skips her final weeks of high school, while part-time test scorer Charlie reads Jainey's essay and recognizes her as a person needing help.
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