书名：Surviving the Applewhites爱波怀特家庭学校生存记
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数820L
作者：Stephanie S. Tolan
出版社名称：HarperCollins
出版时间：2012
语种：英文
ISBN：9780064410441
商品尺寸：13 x 1.2 x 19.4 cm
包装：平装
页数：240
这个世界上会有人能忍受杰克·桑普么？
杰克真是臭名昭著，据说他在前一所学校放了一把火，现在州内已经没有学校肯收他了。
当然，除了爱波怀特家开办的私人艺术学校，一个混乱又有趣的地方。麻烦的是，爱波怀特家的艾德——一个聪明、敏感的小女孩，从杰克来报到的那一天，两人就起了冲突。杰克真的像他看起来的那样，又坏又讨厌么？
Surviving the Applewhites《爱波怀特家庭学校生存记》是一部幽默又值得人深思的叛逆少年成长记录。外表是否重要？教育与环境是否应该扼杀孩子的个性，或是任由他们自然发展？让我们一起在杰克的故事里找寻答案吧！

The side-splittingly funny Newbery Honor Book about a rebellious boy who is sent to a home-schooling program run by one family—the creative, kooky, loud, and loving Applewhites!
Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he managed to get kicked out of every school in Rhode Island, and actually burned the last one down to the ground.
Only one place will take him now, and that’s a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic and hilarious family of artists: poet Lucille, theater director Randolph, dancer Cordelia, and dreamy Destiny. The only one who doesn’t fit the Applewhite mold is E.D.—a smart, sensible girl who immediately clashes with the defiant Jake.

Review
“Tolan has pulled off something special here.” —Booklist
Surviving the Applewhites《爱波怀特家庭学校生存记》讲述了一个13岁问题少年的烦恼。父母都在监狱的他，生活充满了混乱和困惑。所有人都说他是个坏孩子，并且没有人对他的未来报以期望。他不得不与爱波怀特家庭生活在一起，否则他就会被送入青少年拘留中心。在和这家人的相处中，杰克改变了自己的世界观并在后来改变了自己。
Stephanie S. Tolan(born 1942 in Ohio) is an American author of children’s books. Her book Surviving the Applewhites received a Newbery Honor in 2003. She obtained a master’s degree in English at Purdue University. Tolan is a senior fellow at the Institute for Educational Advancement. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband. Her papers are kept at the University of Central Missouri.
“My name is not Edie. It’s E.D. E period, D period.”
“What kind of a name is that?”
The boy slouching against the porch railing had scarlet spiked hair, a silver ring through one dark brown eyebrow, and too many earrings to count. He was dressed entirely in black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black high-top running shoes—and the look in his eyes was pure mean.
“My kind,” E. D. Applewhite said. She had no intention of telling this creep the story of her name. She could tell by looking at him that he’d never heard of Edith Wharton, her mother’s favorite writer. Being probably the only almost-thirteen-year-old girl in the whole country named Edith, she had no intention of giving him even that little bit of ammunition to use against her. E.D., she thought, was at least dignified— like a corporate executive, which one day she just might be. “What kind of a name is Jake Semple?”
Two can play at that game, the boy’s face said. Mine.
Not an original bone in his body, E.D. thought. Just a plain ordinary delinquent.
According to her friend Melissa, though, Jake Semple was famous. He had been kicked out of the public schools in the whole state of Rhode Island. Melissa wasn’t sure what all he’d done to achieve that particular distinction, but the word around Traybridge was that one thing he did was burn down his old school. He’d come to North Carolina to live with his grandfather Henry Dugan, a neighbor of the Applewhites, and go to Traybridge Middle School.
The plan had not lasted long. No one in living memory had been thrown out of Traybridge Middle School, but Jake Semple had managed to accomplish that feat in three weeks flat. At least the building was still standing. It was only the middle of September, and he had run out of schools that were willing to risk taking him.
Mr. Dugan was inside at that moment discussing with E.D.’s parents, her Aunt Lucille, Uncle Archie, and Grandpa Zedediah the arrangement the two families and Jake’s social worker had worked out for continuing Jake’s education.