Four Years in the Jungle

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - First Day Fits
3. Chapter Two - Lockers, Lunchables, and Looking Busy
4. Chapter Three - Lockers, Strategy, and the Potato Incident
5. Chapter Four - Study Hall, Soda, and Sweet Freedom
6. Chapter Five - Substitutes and Silent Standoffs
7. Chapter Six - Dodgeball Dreams That Never Were
8. Chapter Seven - Freshman Year, Part One
9. Chapter Eight - Freshman Year, Part Two
10. Chapter Nine - Science Fair (A Rant)
11. Chapter Ten - The Sacred Art of Not Doing Math
12. Chapter Eleven - The Trig Betrayal and Other Mathematical Truths
13. Chapter Twelve - The Elective Power Duo
14. Chapter Thirteen - Social Studies and the Science of How People Move
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Art of Saying Something Real
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Pencil-and-Paper Problem
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Dead Language That Came to Life
18. Chapter Seventeen - Compassion in Action

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THEY’LL TELL YOU high school was the best time of your life. They’ll also tell you it was the worst. Both are kind of right. Mostly, it was weird. It was four years of walking around like you had somewhere to be, when really, you just didn’t want to get yelled at. It was pretending you understood the math while mentally drafting a tweet. It was the bus rides, the bathroom stalls, the lunch table politics, the girl you almost told, the friend group that imploded for no reason, and the hoodie you wore every day because it felt like armor. It was boredom so loud it echoed. It was joy so quiet you didn’t notice it until years later. This isn’t a guidebook or a lecture. This is a memory...