Meet a Crusader

Johnny Goering is a blonde, blue-eyed, 12-year-old in my seventh grade classroom. The day I unwittingly sit on a whoopee cushion, he laughs...

Bryce Sealock never tells us his father is dying. One cold day in January, he and his sister Brynn, as conscientious and sweet as Bryce i...

The Ortega brothers are teasing their sister. "Jacqui's bossy," Alex claims. "The only time she talks is when she want...

It's second period, and Matt Novinski, as usual, is the first to slide quietly into my classroom. "How'd you swim this wee...