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When the white house was ours

by Porter Shreve

Parent and childFictionAlternative schoolsEccentrics and eccentricitiesFiction, biographicalFiction, family lifeParent and child, fictionWashington (d.c.), fiction

It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into a crumbling mansion in the nation's capital, he makes a bold plan to start a school under his own roof where students and teachers will be equals.

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Book data: Open Library