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Schooled

Written by: Jamie Sumner
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
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A bighearted novel from acclaimed author Jamie Sumner about new schools, unexpected friendships, and overcoming loss.

Eleven-year-old Lenny Syms is about to start college—sort of. As part of a brand-new experimental school, Lenny and four other students are starting sixth grade on a university campus, where they’ll be taught by the most brilliant professors and given every resource imaginable. This new school is pretty weird, though. Instead of hunkering down behind a desk to study math, science, and history, Lenny finds himself meditating, participating in discussions where you don’t even have to raise your hand, and spying on the campus population in the name of anthropology.

But Lenny just lost his mom, and his Latin professor dad is better with dead languages than actual human beings. Lenny doesn’t want to be part of some learning experiment. He just wants to be left alone. Yet if Lenny is going to make it as a middle schooler on a college campus, he’s going to need help. Is a group of misfit sixth graders and one particularly quirky professor enough to pull him out of his sadness and back into the world?

©2025 Jamie Sumner (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio
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What the critics say

"Sumner skillfully depicts standard coming-of-age themes like finding community and navigating grief with fresh humor and vitality." (Publishers Weekly)
"Quirky characters navigate life’s ups and downs." (Kirkus Reviews)
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