An Empty Spoon Author:Sunny Decker "I like books because they're the only things that don't tell you you're stupid." Sunny Decker was twenty-to and fresh out of college when she went to teach in an inner-city high school. It had the highest dropout rate, the highes crime rate, and the highest asentee rate in the city. That's what everyone told Sunny. What they didn't tell her... more » is in this book: the heartbreak, the striving, the yearing for a better life, the humor and imagination, the anger, the people who got things done in spite of everything. It's an exciting book. And it really happened.« less