An Empty Spoon
by Sunny Decker
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I read this around the same time I read Bel Kaufman's "Up The Down Staircase" and discovered that truth can be a better book than fiction.
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Like Herndon's The Way It Spozed To Be, the way it was--real and relevant, bright, catchy and concerned. It's the kind of book you might overlook. Don't.
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- Canonical title
- An Empty Spoon
- Original publication date
- 1969-04-09
- People/Characters
- Sunny Decker
- Epigraph
- I want to fil your / mouth with an empty spoone: / That is, to seeme to teach, / not to teach. -- Stefano Guazzo, 1574
- First words
- My sixth-period class was weird.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I can go to the shore any day I please.
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 371.100924
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- Genres
- Teen, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 371.100924 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Teachers; Teaching personnel; Professors, masters instructors
- LCC
- LC2803 .P5 .D4 — Education Special aspects of education Special aspects of education Education of special classes of persons Blacks. African Americans
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- 60
- Popularity
- 513,018
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.89)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 2
- ASINs
- 6
