{"product_id":"up-the-down-staircase-0871292815","title":"Up the Down Staircase","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0871292815\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bel Kaufman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCast: 12m., 18w. (smaller with doubling.) \"Hi, Teach!\" are the first words to greet attractive Sylvia Barrett. There's a special happiness in walking into the still-empty classroom and for the first time writing her name on the blackboard. Students pour into the classroom-cautious, testing, challenging. Simultaneously, there's a blizzard of paperwork, warnings, contradictory orders, indecipherable instructions. Frantic, Sylvia begins to fear she doesn't even understand the language. An experienced teacher translates: \"Keep on file in numerical order\" means throw in wastebasket. \"Let it be a challenge\" means you're stuck with it. \"Interpersonal relationships\" means a fight between kids. And \"It has come to my attention\" means you're in trouble. Soon Sylvia finds herself the most involved person in the school-involved in the start of a romance and in a near war with a discipline-over-everything administrator, but, most of all, involved in the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking problems of her students. The simple stage arrangement makes the play easy to produce and serves to convey a sense of the whole school. One critic said, \"Seldom has a humorous work been at the same time so important.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51866618003744,"sku":"NEW0871292815","price":10.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61_LU7GCtgL.jpg?v=1781679655","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/up-the-down-staircase-0871292815","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}