{"product_id":"your-story-starts-here-a-year-on-the-brink-with-generation-z-9783988320476","title":"Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If his classroom lessons were distilled into commands, they would be: observe, go deeper, be empathetic. His parenting lessons: love, pay attention, be patient, and forgive... [a] moving, engaging book. I loved every page.\" \u003c\/strong\u003eDebra Spark, author of \u003cem\u003eDiscipline\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Zervanos, a seasoned high-school English teacher and father of two, embarks on a mission at the cusp of a new school year. He realizes that today's youth are thrust into a tumultuous world and burdened with saving it. To chronicle this extraordinary period in America, he assigns himself a unique task: keeping a journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Within its pages, we witness \"his kids\" grappling with pressing issues like identity politics, gun violence, and political uncertainty. A sophomore prodigy wrestles his demons onto the pages of his fiction before entering a psychiatric hospital. An estranged junior posts ominous threats on Snapchat, while a principal sabotages a student walkout. Meanwhile, in his classroom, Jim prepares a hiding space for an active shooter event and, back home, finds solace in the eulogy of his young sons' pet fish, sent on its final journey with a flush.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy year's end, Jim, unwavering in his determination to inspire hope in his students, discovers that it's the youth who inspire hope \u003cem\u003ein him\u003c\/em\u003e. Their creativity and ideals paint a vivid portrait of an evolving America, seen through the kaleidoscope of Generation Z. \u003cem\u003eYour Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate exploration of the challenges, resilience, and unwavering hope of today's youth in a turbulent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jim Zervanos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vine Leaves Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783988320476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZervanos, Jim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jim Zervanos is the author of the memoir That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story and the novel LOVE Park. His award-winning essays and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Bucknell University, where he won the William Bucknell Prize for English and was an Academic All-American baseball player. He teaches at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and two sons and has risen in the baseball pantheon as coach of two Little League teams. Visit: jimzervanos.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vine Leaves Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43169210171507,"sku":"9.78399E+12","price":27.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_286f7d4a-7f47-48c4-9de7-1c7fd1d7f747.jpg?v=1751460713","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/your-story-starts-here-a-year-on-the-brink-with-generation-z-9783988320476","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}