May 28, 2011 | Iowa City Press-Citizen
Cummer writes stories to keep kids engaged
Jacob Cummer's stories aren't the stuff of epic battles and unrequited romance. They're more about boogers, worms, dirt and who gets to ride in the back of the school bus.
Young, naive, and irrepressible, a turn-of-the-20th-century Iowa teacher documented her coming of age in letters home John F. Ross Spring 2011 In these letters, we encounter 18-year-old Elizabeth "Bess" Corey, a plucky schoolteacher in rural Tennant, Iowa, at the turn of the 20th century.