The Student

by Fern Goldstein

Overview

The Student takes readers inside the halls and classrooms of Abigail Adams Middle School on what turns out to be a terrifying and inexorable journey. As we intimately experience the struggles of each of The Student's potential victims and of The Student himself, we feel teacher Sharon Bonavina's frustrations as she tries desperately, but in vain, to reach The Student-until we end up cowering behind the way-too-thin wooden doors of Sharon's classroom, watching the clock, wondering if help will arrive in time. Tick... Tick... Tick...
Between January 2023 and November 26, 2023, there were 77 school shootings, and while children are shooting their teachers and other children, the people who should do something do nothing or don't know what to do.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798881199791
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/15/2024
Pages:	476
Sales rank:	65,016
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Fern Goldstein taught English to students with learning disabilities for over thirty years. She was department chair at two of the schools where she taught, supervised, and trained other teachers and rewrote the language arts curriculum for them. She is the President of G Whiz Educational Resources and author of Looking Glass Spelling and Oops Grammar in Context. In 2009, Fern received the Sam Kirk National Special Educator of the Year award from LDA. She serves as the President of the Learning Disabilities Association of Delaware and has a seat on the National Board as well. She has spoken about learning disabilities and teaching writing, grammar, and language arts at national, regional, and state conferences for LDA, ASAH, CEC, and IDA, , among other organizations.
Since moving to Delaware, Ms. Goldstein launched an educational consulting business, G Whiz Educational Resources, but when the pandemic hit just months later and we all settled in for a long lock-down, she decided to put the skills she taught her students to good use and write her first novel.
Fern lives in Delaware with her husband and has two amazing sons, a wonderful daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters, Cara and Ivy, who are the light of her life.

Editorial Reviews

"ADHD people will say, "Oh, my God, it's me!" Parents of ADHD people will say, "Ohhhhh, now I get it, and I'm so sorry."

Reader with ADHD & LD - Evan Goldstein

"Wow! This gripping, tightly woven narrative immerses the reader in a vividly accurate
portrayal of one of the most contentious issues facing society today. The students Ms. Goldstein created are real, too real...so real that I found the ending devastating. The novel left me with many questions and with the unsettling feeling that this problem may not have a solution."

NYC School Teacher, retired - Madeleine Welner