Mr. Lowry
Blake Kyriss is a loner, a stocky middle school boy who struggles in school and speaks with a lisp. I can see misery all over his small face and am not surprised that he is absent from school regularly. Little wonder for a kid who hides out by himself and begs to walk the halls unseen. He prefers never to be singled out for attention, and all of us worry and wonder how this shy, lost boy will ever graduate. We underestimate, however, the powers of Mr. James Lowry. James Lowry, GICC The first day Blake walks into James Lowry's ninth grade geography class will change his life forever. "You!" Mr. Lowry shouts. Blake looks up, frightened. "Me?" "Yeah, you!" Under fierce eyebrows, Lowry glares across the room. "Have you talked to a single person today?" Blake glances around to make sure he is, in fact, the recipient of this outrage. "Uh, no, Sir, " he mumbles painfully. Lowry shakes his head in mock disgust. "T