Barclay Bates

Lulu's Revenge Barclay Bates

With fierce energy, a rich and powerful father, and an I. Q. in the stratosphere, tiny Lulu Ragsdale is no one to trifle with, and when people keep rubbing her nose in a ninth-grade humiliation, she finally retaliates with cunning and stealth, shattering the chief offender, a hapless teacher. Then she sights on complicit classmates; on the schools bumbling principal, Florian deLessups; and--rather gratuitously--on Ellen Seifer, a sweet, ravishing, and earnest English teacher who has an appalling secret. Lulus pranks could scarcely come at a worse time, for the school is undergoing crucial accreditation, overseen by Sister Moira, a no-nonsense Catholic school principal from out of town. At the center of the upheaval thrashes Cole Wilkins, English department chairman and would-be educational reformer, who lusts for Ellen as Lulu lusts for him. A blending of sex farce and wicked satire, Lulus Revenge will bring on belly laughs--as well as some serious thought about the failure of high schools in America.