When the white house was ours
By: Porter Shreve.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780618722105
Subjects: Parent and child -- Fiction; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction; Alternative schools -- Fiction; Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into a crumbling mansion in the nation's capital, he makes a bold plan to start a school under his own roof where students and teachers will be equals.
Notes: "A Mariner Original."