Pinkwater, Daniel. The education of Robert Nifkin.PINKWATER, Daniel. The education of Robert Nifkin. Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , Graphia. 178p. c2005.0-618-55208-1. $6.99. JS Daniel Pinkwater captures the essence of life in the 1950s for a beatnik teenager fed up with conformity. Robert Nifkin is writing a college essay about his high school experience, which is the premise of this novel. He and his family have just moved to Chicago. The son of Eastern European immigrants, he is allowed to smoke cigars, but forbidden to pick out his own clothing. He starts attending Riverview High School Riverview High School may refer to: Schools in Canada:
tr.v. in·doc·tri·nat·ed, in·doc·tri·nat·ing, in·doc·tri·nates 1. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles. 2. . Instead of teaching, they make the students copy the day's lesson from the blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. into their notebooks. Robert joins ROTC to get out of remedial REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. gym classes, and is shocked when his drill instructor is turned in to the administration for reading to his students from Karl Marx. He starts skipping school regularly to escape, and has fun with some new like-minded friends. When Riverview tries to send him to a juvenile delinquent juvenile delinquent n. a person who is under age (usually below 18), who is found to have committed a crime in states which have declared by law that a minor lacks responsibility and thus may not be sentenced as an adult. high school for his truancy, he manages to secure a spot at the Wheaton School. Wheaton is supposed to be a rigorous private academy for the gifted, but is really an alternative school where students can take any classes they want, and most of the time, they hang out in the local diner diner, restaurant resembling the railroad dining car that is its source. In the mid-19th cent., the first dining cars that appeared on trains were nothing more than an empty car with a fastened-down table. George M. with their teachers, discussing life. It's beatnik heaven for Robert, and he thrives. This novel doesn't move along very quickly, but Robert's day-to-day descriptions of his life are interesting enough to keep most readers engaged. Recommended for teens who enjoy historical fiction. Olivia Durant, Libn., Webster PL., Webster, NY J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescent and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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