Sugarcane Academy by Michael Tisserand

Sugarcane Academy by Michael Tisserand

A testament to the teachers who supported Katrina's children, Sugarcane Academy reminds us all that heroes hold small hands on field trips, clean paint brushes, and sing morning songs. --Phillip Done, author of 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching
As floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina surged at their heels, fleeing New Orleanians had their minds more on safety than whether their children would be missing school.But when a group of evacuee parents who settled in New Iberia, Louisiana, realized they would not be returning home quickly, they set about reconstructing their families lives. And so they turned to beloved New Orleans schoolteacher Paul Reynaud, whose fierce determination and unwavering spirit transformed an abandoned office into a one-room schoolhouse.This is the story of Sugarcane Academy: twenty-five students, their devoted parents, an inspiring teacher, and the boundless power of learning.
This wonderful memoir manages to do what a flood of news-reporting could not: see the tragedy of Katrina through the eyes of children. The story of the Sugarcane Academy, an improvised one-room school in a sugarcane parish in south Louisiana, will be one of the lasting books of our tragedy. --Andrei Codrescu, author of New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City
Michael Tisserand is the author of The Kingdom of Zydeco, which won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music writing.He served as editor of Gambit Weekly, the alternative newsweekly of New Orleans.He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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Michael Tisserand is the author of The Kingdom of Zydeco, which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for music writing, and the Hurricane Katrina memoir Sugarcane Academy. He served as editor of Gambit Weekly, New Orleans' alternative newsweekly. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. www.michaeltisserandauthor.com

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ISBN 13	9780156031899
ISBN 10	0156031892
Title	Sugarcane Academy
Author	Michael Tisserand
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2007-07-02
Number of pages	192
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