Straight punch
By: Monique Polak
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781459803916; 9781459803923; 9781459803930; 9781459807822
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Experimental schools; Boxing; Juvenile fiction; Juvenile delinquency; High school students; Fiction; Alternative schools; Schools
Description: "How bad can an alternative school be? Tessa McPhail has landed at New Directions, a last-chance school in Montreal's roughest neighborhood. The kids are tough and the school is far from home, but the very worst thing is the curriculum: 50 percent academics, 50 percent boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Tessa disagrees. But when a neighbor starts a petition to have New Directions closed down, Tessa discovers something worth fighting for, both in and out of the ring"--

When Tessa gets caught tagging, she is sent to an alternative school in one of Montreal's toughest neighborhoods, where boxing is a big part of the school curriculum.