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They knew their school by its rating, their social rank by their GPA, their future by their admissions letters. Five students at Regatta High, the top-performing suburban Albeit school for decades, had learned to get used to the education-by-numbers world that launched countless classmates into the Ivy League. With only junior and senior year to go, they were more worried about the quality of their admissions essay than the quality of their education. The tests, policies and restrictions that surrounded them were there for a reason, they thought. And then came a strange teacher, a creative writing instructor by the name of Pier Vogel. In the next four months, he would tip their world upside down... A novel by Kenneth Burchfiel