Jane Carlile Baker

Queen of the Third Grade Jane Carlile Baker

Gwen Murphy intends to put a fine point on her final year teaching third grade. However, the new, and decidedly unsupportive, principalher firefighter husband who coughs worse every passing dayher colleagues who decide it's Gwen who should take on the inadequacy of state testingJemma, head of the mean girls' club's, accusation that Gwen bruised her armmay thwart Gwen's plan. With the challenges life throws at her, can she apply grace and truth in her solutions?

When she thinks things can't get worse, a wildfire hits her Sierra Nevada town. Raging flames chase the students and staff out of the school, and her husband's cell goes to voicemail.

How will she deal with it all? Or can she?