She noticed, I could tell, but she didn’t acknowledge him one way or another. Smart. My mother always used to say that paying too much attention to those kinds of kids was playing right into their hands and reinforcing their bad behavior.
We moved a few paces away to a spot where we were partly obscured by the book stacks but where Nora could still keep an eye on the kids. “As you can see, it’s quite a group. Mostly they work on the computers, and all you have to do is keep an eye on their scores and see where they’re doing well and where they need some help. At the librarian’s desk, we have the teacher’s editions of the actual books we’re using, and then the master software loaded on that computer, so it should be pretty self-explanatory.”
“How do you keep track of it all?” I asked. It
