An Empty Spoon Author:Sunny Decker Sunny Decker was twenty-two and fresh out of college when she went to teach in an inner city high school. It had the highest dropout rate, the highest crime rate and the highest absentee rate in the city. — That's what everyone told Sunny. What they didn't tell her is in this book: the heartbreak, the striving, the yearning for a better life, th... more »e humor and imagination, the anger, the peoplke who got things done in spite o everything. It's an exciting book. And it really happened.« less