A vice principal makes sexual advances and a quid pro quo offer to a new teacher—again and again.

A cyberbully targets students—again and again.

A dangling job offer baits and hooks a veteran teacher then cuts her loose—again and again.

It’s the start of a new year that, from day one, is on course to shatter the stereotype of high school English teachers. Book-carrying? Reserved? Bespectacled? Buttoned-up and collared-down? Hair pulled back in a bun?  Kassi Stanton alters that narrative. She is literary superhero CanonBel, the English teacher you never had.

After a year of butting heads with Principal Rikki Parks, Kassi  resolves to put her questionable behavior with Parks behind her and stop rocking the BS High boat. Then Parks adds a twist to her unhealthy love affair with standardized testing.  Gamification. What better way to improve scores than to gamify test prep? Kassi orces herself to squash her rebellious urge and be her best self.

Then she steps through the doors of BS High in September.

A crack forms in her promise on the first day when she hears accusations that her new vice principal is engaging in sexual harassment. 

She’s spent a career analyzing fictional literary characters. When the problems come knocking at her classroom door, she turns to what she knows best: the classics and the not-so-classic. She learns from a Shakespearan shrew and takes on the sleazy vp and the cyberbullying case.

Will Rikki Parks play a role when CanonBel, the English teacher you never had, gets in costume?

CanonBel, the English teacher you never had, gets in costume?

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