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Title Statement | The abstinence teacher / Tom Perrotta. |
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Author | Perrotta, Tom, 1961- |
Publication | [Toronto]: Random House Canada, 2007. |
Extent of Item | v, 358 p. |
ISBN | 0307356361 9780307356369 |
Other Number | 1750543 |
Summary | Sex education teacher Ruth Ramsey offends the congregation of an evangelical Christian church which doesn't support her teaching style. The evangelists then begin a crusade against her and force the school to implement an abstinence curriculum. |
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Sex educators--Fiction | |
Divorced parents--Fiction | |
Single mothers--Fiction | |
Soccer coaches--Fiction | |
Evangelists--Fiction | |
Sex instruction--Fiction | |
Sexual abstinence--Fiction | |
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By Genre | Domestic fiction |