Someone Else's Shoes (3rd Period Edition): A Crowd-Sourced Novel for Young Adults

Life is hard for April Grey, a high school sophomore at Sojourner Truth Magnet High School in Chicago. She’s surrounded by people who are more successful than she is, in one way or another: straighter teeth, better hair, better complexion, more perfect height, more money, more friends, better grades, they’re in better shape, their family lives don’t suck as badly as hers does, they get rides to school while she has to take the train, they have better clothes. With the help of her quirky English teacher, Julie Glass , April mysteriously spends one day in a childhood memory of each of her classmates and slowly learns the irony of her bitterness. Someone Else’s Shoes, is the sequel to the world’s first high school crowd-sourced novel , the award -winning 30 Days to Empathy.

Jay C. Rehak is a 25-year veteran Chicago Public school educator who currently teaches English at Whitney M. Young Magnet High school. President of the Board of Trustees of the $10 Billion Chicago Teachers Pension Fund, and a member of the Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security (an Initiative for Responsible Investment at Harvard University), Mr. Rehak is also a published author whose 27 comedic plays have been performed around the world and are published in three volumes by One Act Depot. The CPS Tech Innovator of 2014, Mr. Rehak recently won the 2013 Chicago Writer's Association's Book of the Year for Non-Traditional Publishing for co-writing 30 Days to Empathy, the world's first high school class source novel ever published. Jay is married to award winning children's singer, Susan Salidor. He has three children, Hope, Hannah, and Ali. More information can be found at www.jaycrehak.com.