Standing Up to Mr. O.

by Claudia Mills

Overview

Maggie McIntosh is crazy about her biology teacher and loves to impress him with her academic excellence. But when the dreaded day of the first class dissection arrives, Maggie has to disappoint Mr. O. There's no way she can cut up a worm.

Maggie's best friend, Alycia, understands. Alycia is squeamish, too, and shares Maggie's moral outrage. However, she's willing to keep quiet and let her lab partner do the dirty work. Maggies' own lab partner, Matt, completely disagrees. Then, after Maggie walks out on the dissection, he seems to respect her. And classmate Jake, who follows Maggie out the door, appears positively smitten.

As she struggles to clarify her position about dissections, Maggie discovers that people and relationships are not always what they seem, and just as there are no perfect fathers (hers left years before), there are no perfect father figures - or even friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781466852877
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	09/17/2013
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Lexile:	690L (what's this?)
File size:	197 KB
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Claudia Mills is the author of Dinah Forever, which received a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Big Picture" review and was among the list of "Bulletin Blue Ribbons 1995." According to a starred review in School Library Journal, "As in the previous books, Mills is particularly effective in her creation of complex relationships between characters." The author's last book for middle-grade readers was Losers, Inc., which was widely recommended by reviewers.

Claudia Mills teaches philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she lives with her husband and their two sons.

Claudia Mills is the acclaimed author of many books for children including the Franklin School Friends children's book series, including Cody Harmon, King of Pets and Simon Ellis, Spelling Bee Champ. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.