Brian Shepard

Sixth Hour with Kensington: This Time the Student Becomes the Teacher Brian Shepard

Sixth Hour With Kensingtonis an inspirational tale about the relationship between a teacher and one ofhis former students.¿ Throughout thebook, many events help the relationship grow and develop over a three-year spaninto a deep and committed friendship.¿ Frankie Kensington is a middleschool student who arrives in Brian Shepard's sixth grade mathematics on thefirst day of school.¿ Frankie is confinedto a wheelchair and is stricken with a rare disease called Ataxia -Telangiectasia (a-tak-see-uh tee-lawn-jek-tay-zee-uh) or "A - T."¿ Over time the disease starts to take its tollon Frankie and wears him down, but it cannot touch the incredible bond formedbetween both the teacher and his student.¿The book contains many funny stories and touching events that help Briangrow not only as a teacher, but also as a human being.