num_pages: 336
description: When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet menacing pupils. Assuming their behavior to be a response to the trauma of their teacher's death, Pierre Hoffman at first takes it easy with the precocious class, refusing to share the other staff members' hostility toward the children. Over the weeks that follow, however, he receives a series of signals and warnings that cause him to question the motivations of his pupils and the circumstances of his colleague's suicide.
language: English
title: School's Out
titlecomplete: School's Out
characters: Sandrine Botella, Clara Sorman, Pierre Hoffman
genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery, France
ratings_count: 337
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Prix du premier roman
publisher: Penguin Books