title: Adventures of Charter School Creators: Leading from the Ground Up
author:  Terrence E. Deal 
description: ...a seminal work in the areas of comparative education, educational reform, and academic leadership....Here are stories of failure and success, victories and defeats. ...an impressive work of considered scholarship and a highly recommended contribution to the on-going national dialogue over the advantages and disadvantages of charter schools within private and public education reform movements. (<i>Wisconsin Bookwatch</i>)
zlib_text: > > A 6000-POUND WRECKING BALL IS ABOUT TO DEMOLISH BENJAMIN PRATT’S SCHOOL. .
  > . .
  
  > AND HE HAS ONLY  
  > 28 DAYS  
  > TO FIGURE OUT  
  > HOW TO STOP IT.
  
  > Benjamin Pratt’s harbor-side school is going to be bulldozed to make room
  > for an amusement park. It sounds like a dream come true. . . . Or is it more
  > like a nightmare? Something about the plan seems fishy, and Lyman, the new
  > assistant janitor, seems even fishier. When Ben and his friend Jill start
  > digging for answers, they find things that the people with money and power
  > don’t want them to see. Could the history hidden deep within an old school
  > building actually overthrow a thirty-million-dollar real-estate deal? And
  > how far will the developers go to keep that from happening? Ben and Jill are
  > about to discover just how dangerous a little knowledge can be.
  
  > A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION
  
  > ANDREW CLEMENTS is the author of more than sixty books for children,
  > including the enormously popular _Frindle_ and the _