Book Review for “The Secret School”

 I think that this is a good book to read. This book tells about several children that go to a school in the early 1900’s in the Colorado Mountains.There is one teacher that teaches several grades. There are two students who are ready to graduate, but the teacher has some bad news, that she has to go back home to take care of her mother that is very ill. So she cannot continue teaching class even though the semester is almost over. There is a man that is called Mr. Jordan. He owns a store and is also the head of the local school board. He decides that the school will be closed for the rest of the semester since there is no time to find a substitute teacher, which upsets the students because they’re supposed to take the school exit test. This way they will know if they will go to high school. One of the students is very smart when it comes to electronic things, and his name is Tom. And then there is Ida. Ida wants to be a teacher so she really wants to take her exit test. So one day Tom and Ida start talking about how to keep the school open so they can all attend school. They come up with a plan that Ida will be the teacher. So they can take the exit test, and everybody will be able to learn. So Ida becomes the teacher and continues teaching where Miss Fletcher left off. She thought that being a teacher would be an easy thing to do. She had to make the class assignments and also check them as well. Plas she also needed to make sure she taught herself as well. This went went for some time. Then Mr. Jordan finds out and calls a board meeting to let the parents know what Ida was doing.If you enjoy reading what I wrote, you may want to check out this book. It’s a good book to read. It shows how if you set your mind to something that you want, and if you do not give up trying, then one day you can say, “I did it.”