Streethearts
By: Greg Herriges
Edition: First Serving House books edition.
Publisher: Serving House Books, LLC
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Copenhagen; Florham Park, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780985849542
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: High school students; High schools; Gangs; Juvenile delinquency
Description: "John Spector is a seasoned high school teacher with 22 years in the trenches of a ghetto school filled with struggling teenagers, gangs, apathetic students - but also students "who make an indelible impression, kids with souls and hearts as big as the world." We get the whole spectrum from Spector, a brave and decent soul, a soft touch, too nice, too caring perhaps. Herriges spent many years as a high school teacher. He brings substance and legitimacy to Streethearts. The authenticity of his narrative comes across in every line of every page, many of them packed with witty and sparkling dialogue, at times genuinely humorous, occasionally grim or even horrific, but always candid, always down-to-earth, always reliable."--Cover.