Author(s): Sydney Kendall
Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing Company
Pages: 318
Binding: Paperback
A delightfully written children's novel with themes a (thinking) adult can fully appreciate. The heroine of the story, Astrid, is a highly gifted fifth grader who is being smothered under the lock-step conformist program of her teacher, Dr. Helton. Aside from being entertaining, the book illustrates the true requirements of the young human mind -- and the obstacles often placed in its way. The book concretizes the deeper moral themes of independence, integrity, and control-of-others versus self-interested rationality.