Schooled

A bighearted, compulsively readable novel from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner about new schools, unexpected friendships, and overcoming a devastating loss.
A Golden Kite Award Winner for Young Readers and Middle Grade Fiction

An insightful and absorbing (Shelf Awareness, starred review) novel from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner about new schools, unexpected friendships, and overcoming loss.

Eleven-year-old Lenny Syms is about to start collegesort of. As part of a brand-new experimental school, Lenny and four other students are starting sixth grade on a university campus, where theyll be taught by the most brilliant professors and given every resource imaginable.

This new school is pretty weird, though. Instead of hunkering down behind a desk to study math, science, and history, Lenny finds himself meditating, participating in discussions where you dont even have to raise your han