Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World

Photographs, accessible prose, and personal accounts paint a portrait of innovative schools in this vibrant, globe-trotting guide. In post-Katrina New Orleans, students plant an “edible schoolyard.” In Kenya, a school provides dowries for fathers—in exchange, their daughters go to school for eight years, rather than marrying. Hughes’s examples of grassroots education in action are inspirational and informative. Ages 9–13. (Sept.)