Yo Miss: A Graphic Look at High Schoool (World Around Us)

Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School takes the reader inside Wildcat Academy, a second chance high school in New York City where all the students are considered at-risk. Through strong and revealing black and white images, the book tells the story of eight students who are trying to get that ticket to the middle class - a high school diploma. Whether they succeed or not has as much to do with what happens outside the classroom as in, and the value of perseverance is matched by the power of a second chance. It is a story that shows these teens in all their beauty, intelligence, suffering, humor, and humanity (and also when they are really pains in the behind.) A view from the trenches of public education, Yo, Miss challenges preconceptions about who these kids are, and what is needed to help them graduate.

Kaycee Eckhardt taught in Japan for several years before being inspired by Hurricane Katrina to return to her Louisiana home. She was a founding staff member of Sci Academy, now Collegiate Academies and she was named Louisiana Charter School Teacher of the Year in 2009. She lives in New Orleans. Read Kaycee's interview on the Microcosm blog. Lisa Wilde has a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, an M.A. from Columbia University, and an MsEd from Hunter College. She was inspired to create "Yo, Miss" after joining the staff at Wildcat Academy, a second chance high school in New York City. A Wisconsin native, Lisa moved to Brooklyn in her twenties and still lives there with her husband and son. More about Lisa can be found on her website. Read an interview with Lisa on our blog