Ms. Moffett's First Year guts & glory the work of a mature

the work of a mature and accomplished novelist

this is the timeless story of an 11-year-old orphan's rollicking journey through the Deep South with a con man who just might be her father

From Budapest in the twenties to Paris in the thirties

and young women were its vanguard

Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid

Ms. Moffett's First Year guts & glory the work of a matureIn summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools. Seven weeks later she was in a first grade classroom in Flatbush, Brooklyn, nearly completely unprepared for what she was about to face. New York Times education reporter Abby Goodnough followed Donna Moffett through her first