With fierce energy, a rich and powerful father, and an i.q. in the stratosphere, tiny lulu ragsdale is no one to trifle with, and when people keep rubbing her nose in a ninth-grade humiliation, she finally retaliates with cunning and stealth, shattering the chief offender, a hapless teacher. then she sights on complicit classmates; on the school’s bumbling principal, florian delessups; and--rather gratuitously--on ellen seifer, a sweet, ravishing, and earnest english teacher who has an appalling secret. lulu’s pranks could scarcely come at a worse time, for the school is undergoing crucial accreditation, overseen by sister moira, a no-nonsense catholic school principal from out of town. at the center of the upheaval thrashes cole wilkins, english department chairman and would-be educational reformer, who lusts for ellen as lulu lusts for him. a blending of sex farce and wicked satire, lulu’s revenge will bring on belly laughs--as well as some serious thought about the failure of high schools in america.