Laurie Gelman
1) Class Mom
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Class Mom volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
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Laurie Gelman's clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom—a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics.
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom—or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max—this
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 25 cm.
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"As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the "guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers," armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor (New York Times Book Review). Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a school fundraiser (again!), Jen faces the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of the wrestling moms...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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274 pages ; 25 cm.
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"In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's "irreverent and hilarious" (The New York Post) hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her. If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy interactions with the micromanaging PTA President and the gamut of...
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Class Mom volume 2
Description
In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Laurie Gelman's hit Class Mom, brash, lovable Jen Dixon is back with a new class and her work cut out for her.
If you've ever been a room parent or school volunteer, Jen Dixon is your hero. She says what every class mom is really thinking, whether in her notoriously frank emails or standup-worthy interactions with the micromanaging PTA President and the gamut of difficult parents. Luckily, she has the charm...
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Class Mom volume 4
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From the author of Class Mom and You've Been Volunteered comes Laurie Gelman's next laugh-out-loud novel Smells Like Tween Spirit.
As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers, armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor.
Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a...
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Class Mom volume 3
Description
The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom—again—for her son’s fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants.
The now beloved hero of Laurie Gelman’s Class Mom and You’ve Been Volunteered has a lot on her plate this year in Yoga Pant Nation—from childcare duties for her daughter’s two-year-old to her determined mission to become...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas is a fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters. She's used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class mom ever, to taking care of her two-year-old granddaughter. When the PTA president throws her a mandate to raise $10,000 for the fifth-grade class, even unflappable Jen is going to need more than her regular spin class to...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom-or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max, this time with a husband and father by her side. Though her best friend and PTA President sees her as the "wisest" candidate for the job (or oldest), not all of the other parents agree. From recording parents'...