Author and teacher Rose-Marie Evans has written a wonderful tale about a sister and brother’s life changing experience in The Unexpected Adventure at East Haddam High. 

Teenage Kit has just about had it—school’s a drag and her brother Joe is a constant source of annoyance! 

One morning, after the two have finished their usual arguments, they arrive at school.  Relieved they can be away from each other for awhile, both think it’s going to be an ordinary day at East Haddam High.  They couldn’t be more wrong. 

Kit and Joe discover the school is deserted—no students, no teachers, not a single soul in sight.  Wondering what is going on, they decide to explore the classrooms.  What they find is that their classes are being morphed into past and present day incidents! 

One class holds a Nazi concentration camp; another holds terrorists in the middle-east; and one turns into New York City where they have to care for the homeless!  As they work through the difficulties of each situation, they learn to view life through the eyes of others.  They discover just how important they are to each other and that life, it seems, is not so ordinary after all. 

Evans has an innate sense of the mindset of adolescents as they come of age in a confusing world. Her narration is brilliantly creative, her characters believable and her masterful storytelling expertly teaches teens and tweens valuable life lessons.

About the Author

Rose-Marie Evans is an author and high school music teacher. She has degrees from Florida State University and Central Connecticut State University. She was East Haddam Teacher of the Year in 2005, where she teaches band and choir. Mrs. Evans has composed her school’s fight song and the melody to the school’s Alma Mater, along with several songs that her choirs have performed. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.