The Secret School

The Secret School, the book I just finished, is about a girl named Ida Bidson who always wanted to be a teacher. She is 14, and hasn't even gotten to High School. She lives on a small farm in an isolated country, and her parents don't have enough money for her to go to High School unless she gets a scholarship. So, Ida wants to take her entrance exam really badly. At the end of the year though, her teacher's mom gets really sick, and her teacher has to leave the school. For good. Ida and her class mates don't know what to do when the school board tells them that they won't be able to get a new teacher for a year... that means that they have to just stop the whole school for a while. Ida's friend, Tom Kohl, tells Ida that she should become their 'secret' teacher. Ida tries, and succeeds. Her students love her, and she has tons of fun doing it. Then, the school board finds out. They tell Ida that she, along with the kids that she has taght have to take a huge test. Ida takes it, and everyone else does to. Her whole class succeeds, and she graduates to High School with honers, and a scholarship.

This book was great, although slightly boring at first... but I would recommend it to everyone I met!