Gregory has always hated school. Every minute he spends there is torture. Now he's thirteen, in sixth grade, and life has only gotten worse. The only place he seems to fit in is his grandfather's shed, among the tools and scraps he used to build his inventions. There he's happy. But then his parents decide to send him to boarding school. At first Gregory hates the idea of being shipped off, but after awhile he begins to wonder if a fresh start.

Summary

There was this kid named Gregory, who had always hated school and one day his parents decided that was going to send him to boarding school and he did not like that. He also his a kid who likes to play sports he ran in track. Then he didn't get to go see his grandpa in the hospital because they said that germs will kill him. Then he got into Great Fields. He keeps saying that he wish he can do something to help his grandpa Leon but the only thing i can do is wait. Then one day he was up in his room and this high school kid came up there and someone whats to see you down stairs. He ran down stairs and there was his Grandpa Leon.

Anna Gavalda

Was born in the French countryside in 1970. She worked for awhile as an au pair in the united states before studying at the Sorbonne in Paris. A journalist and the mother of two, she now lives in the southern suburbs of Paris. She is the author of two enormously successful adult books. 95 Pound of Hope, her first children's book, has been translated into eight languages.