Threatened Multicultural Joan’s Academy is a pressure

Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker

"An authentic work of great talent

An Amazon Best Book of the Month

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Threatened Multicultural Joan’s Academy is a pressure*A 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST* When he was a boy, Luc's mother would warn him about the "mock men" living in the trees by their home chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night. Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in a house of mistreated orphans, barely getting by. Then a man calling himself Prof comes to town with a mysterious mission. When Luc tries to rob him, the man isn't mad. Instead, he offers Luc a job. Together, Luc and Prof