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Four Years in the Jungle

A brutally honest memoir of surviving four years of high school as an awkward freshman navigating the social jungle of lockers, dodgeball, and dioramas.

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Chapters

25 total
  1. 01Prologue
  2. 02Chapter One - First Day Fits
  3. 03Chapter Two - Lockers, Lunchables, and Looking Busy
  4. 04Chapter Three - Lockers, Strategy, and the Potato Incident
  5. 05Chapter Four - Study Hall, Soda, and Sweet Freedom
  6. 06Chapter Five - Substitutes and Silent Standoffs
  7. 07Chapter Six - Dodgeball Dreams That Never Were
  8. 08Chapter Seven - Freshman Year, Part One
  9. 09Chapter Eight - Freshman Year, Part Two
  10. 10Chapter Nine - Science Fair (A Rant)
  11. 11Chapter Ten - The Sacred Art of Not Doing Math
  12. 12Chapter Eleven - The Trig Betrayal and Other Mathematical Truths
  13. 13Chapter Twelve - The Elective Power Duo
  14. 14Chapter Thirteen - Social Studies and the Science of How People Move
  15. 15Chapter Fourteen - The Art of Saying Something Real
  16. 16Chapter Fifteen - The Pencil-and-Paper Problem
  17. 17Chapter Sixteen - The Dead Language That Came to Life
  18. 18Chapter Seventeen - Compassion in Action
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  1. 19Chapter Eighteen - The Glorious Burnout of Senioritis
  2. 20Chapter Nineteen - Track and the Weight of the Throw
  3. 21Chapter Twenty - The Power of Showing Up
  4. 22Chapter Twenty-One - Finding My People
  5. 23Chapter Twenty-Two - The Bum Bum Bum That Saved the Night
  6. 24Chapter Twenty-Three - The Secret Power of Showing Up Loud
  7. 25Chapter Twenty-Four - Graduation Day
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Dedications, notices, acknowledgments, author notes, and short passages from this book.

Four Years in the Jungle

Four Years in the Jungle
A High School Memoir
by James Johnson

Dedication

To the kids still walking the halls.
May you find your people, your voice, and your power.
You’re not alone. You never were.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


THANK YOU TO every teammate, teacher, classmate, and hallway ghost who made the journey what it was.
To the ones who showed up. To the ones who didn’t.
To the laughter, the heartbreak, and the absolute chaos of it all, thanks.
This wouldn’t exist without you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


JJ IS JUST a kid who went through it, figured a few things out, and lived to write about it. From locker-lined jungles to academic team trivia battles, he found power in the chaos and poetry in the absurd.
This is his story. Maybe it’s yours too.