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Mona Gray enjoys the predictability of numbers in her classroom, where she teaches second‑grade math. When a new science teacher starts at the school, he introduces chaos and romance that threaten to disrupt Mona’s structured routine and change the way she perceives both love and mathematics.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Aimee Bender
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