BenBee and the Teacher Griefer - The Kids Under the Stairs

Love that Dog meets Mr. Bixby’s Last Day in this funny, clever novel-in-verse about video-game enthusiast Ben Bellows and his three classmates.

Ben Bellows failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State Test. Now he and three classmates are stuck in a summer school class. But these kids aren’t dumb—they’re divergent thinkers, as Ms. J tells them: They simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. Soon, they win over Ms. J with their passion for Sandbox, a Minecraft-type game. The kids make a deal with Ms. J: Every minute they spend reading aloud equals one minute they get to play Sandbox in class. But when the administration finds out about this unorthodox method of teaching, Ben B. and his buds have to band together to save their teacher’s job—and their own academic future.

Told through the perspective of four different students in alternating chapters, this honest, hea