

All share a love of the online game Sandbox that, á la Minecraft, promotes creative exploration. Three of them failed a Florida academic assessment test and the other has no scores since he was home-schooled and recently moved to the state.


Features a distinct and engaging cast of characters.The first in a series of complementary storylines, this is an honest, heartfelt book about friendship, videogames, and learning to love yourself. and his buds have to band together to save their teacher's job-and their own academic future. But when the administration finds about this unorthodox method of teaching, Ben B. J: every minute they spend reading aloud equals one minute they get to play Sandbox in class.

J with their passion for Sandbox, a Minecraft-type game. A heartwarming, laugh-out-loud novel-in-verse.Celebrates different types of intelligence.Each chapter is told through the perspective of one of the four students, who each write in a different style (art, verse, stream of consciousness).J tells them: they simply approach things in a different way than traditional school demands. The Kids Under the Stairs: BenBee and the Teacher Griefer is a funny, clever novel-in-verse series about Ben Bellows-who failed the Language Arts section of the Florida State test-and three classmates who get stuck in a summer school class.īut these kids aren't dumb-they're divergent thinkers, as Ms. From the author of Rhyme Schemer, House Arrest, and Knockout!
