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"Possum Porter has had it with change. First they lost Mama, leaving a hole nothing can fill. And now Daddy's sending Possum to school for the first time. A real school, where you have to wear shoes. Where they don't let you bring your dog. And where some snooty teacher will try to erase all the useful things Mama taught Possum during their lessons at home. So Possum comes up with a plan. If she can prove that she already knows everything worth knowing, Daddy will let her quit school and stay at home where she belongs. But Possum doesn't shoot to the top of the class like she expected. Even worse, the teacher seems to have her eye on a new suitor ... Possum's daddy. With time running out, Possum must do something drastic to get away from school -- and get Daddy out of the teacher's clutches -- or risk losing everything that's keeping her heart glued together."--