Dealing with Dyscalculia by Steve Chinn

Dealing with Dyscalculia by Steve Chinn

For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau.

Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters, magazine ads, ticket stubs, catalog pages, fabric swatches, candy wrappers, fashion spreads, menus, and more, we meet and follow Frankie on her journey in search of success and love. Once at Vassar, Frankie crosses paths with intellectuals and writers, among them Vincent (alumna Edna St. Vincent Millay), who encourages Frankie to move to Greenwich Village and pursue her writing. When heartbreak finds her in New York, she sets off for Paris aboard the S.S. Mauritania, where she keeps company with two exiled Russian princes and a spinster adventuress who is paying her way across the Atlantic with her unused trousseau. In Paris, Frankie takes a garret apartment above Shakespeare & Company, the hub of expat life, only to have a certain ne'er-do-well captain from her past reappear. But when a family crisis compels Frankie to return to her small New England hometown, she finds exactly what she had been looking for all along.

Author of the New York Times Notable Book Jackie by Josie, Caroline Preston pulls from her extraordinary collection of vintage ephemera to create the first-ever scrapbook novel, transporting us back to the vibrant, burgeoning bohemian culture of the 1920s and introducing us to an unforgettable heroine, the spirited, ambitious, and lovely Frankie Pratt.

Steve Chinn was principal of two schools for dyslexic students before founding his own school which received Beacon School status from the government and the Independent Schools 'Award for Excellence'. He designed and delivered the UK's first Post Graduate course on dyslexia and maths difficulties.

Steve's research papers, articles and books include the award-winning The Trouble with Maths. He compiled and edited The International Handbook of Dyscalculia and Mathematical Learning Difficulties (2015). The fourth edition of his seminal book Mathematics for Dyslexics was published in 2017. He has recently written catch-up materials for Numicon.

Steve has lectured in 30 countries, including consultation work for the Singapore MoE. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Derby.