num_pages: 40
description: Based on a true story, a young girl skips the second grade to go with her family on an adventure to Italy to perform in her family's theater troupe, "The Mystic Paper Beasts", for a year where she gets the chance to play the part of a bear in a piazza and a stork in an open-air theater.
language: English
title: The Year I Didn't Go to School
titlecomplete: The Year I Didn't Go to School
genres: Family, Biography, Childrens, Picture Books, Italy, Nonfiction, Travel
ratings_count: 100
publisher: Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books