By the end of the book, I scarcely had to look at the chapter titles to see who each narrator was. The different viewpoints, while initially a bit daunting, are well-executed. Many of the chapters are quite short, helping to make Because of Mr. The book is divided into sections by month, starting in September, and going through the full school year. Short chapters rotate between the perspectives of the seven students (there are others in the classroom, but they are not primary characters). Foreshadowing (and a blurb by John Irving on the cover) suggests that an accident will occur at some point, lending a larger plot arc to a story that otherwise consists of a tapestry of small classroom incidents.
Terupt is about the positive impact of a first-time teacher on seven students from his fifth grade classroom in small-town Connecticut. I picked it up yesterday when I had a whim for realistic middle grade fiction. Terupt is a book that's been on my shelf for quite a while.
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