Jim Watt: 4 books

Jeremy Franklin is in the 8th grade when a friend is charged with stealing a necklace from a locked school locker. Jerry solves the crime and gets the necklace returned by discovering how the locker was entered and identifying the thief in a school assembly. He is praised by a teacher who calls him a...

Jack Hughes is a 16 year old orphan. His only inheritance is a 30 foot sailboat and he intends to sail it down the Intra Coastal Waterway from Baltimore to Miami in memory of his recently killed parents who loved to sail. He is joined by a 16 year old girl who has run away from home and wants to forget...

Taylor Robin Morrissey, at fourteen years of age, has his safe middle class home broken up when his father goes to prison and his mother drifts into alcoholism. His only relative is his grandfather who is a small rancher in Wyoming, but who is estranged from Taylor's family. Taylor decides to hitchhike...

This book provides perspectives and insights across the educational system for how we might move toward living out this wish in all schools. The chapters provide perspectives on fundamental questions that have been guiding recent research on wellbeing in schools: How do school communities flourish...