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One year before I retired after 19 years of teaching, my wife and I took a road trip and spent the night in Illinois with her cousin. The cousin had just become a Big Sister to a streetwise ten-year-old from Chicago. This little sister was running circles around the good-hearted cousin. The cousin asked earnestly, "How do you get a classroom of kids to do your bidding, when I can't even get ONE child to do what I want? This graphic novel is my answer to her.