Saving Miss Oliver's

• Email campaign targeting National Association of Independent Schools librarians and ILS list.
• Excerpts and/or byliner focused on resistance to change for aspiring leaders pitched to: NAIS Bulletin, independent schools publications and online sources; other educator sources like School Library Connections and Library Journal.
• Speaking engagements at meetings of the Association of Principals of Schools for Girls and other related conferences.
• Author events at schools, libraries, and stores in cities with concentrations of independent schools like: Boston, Cleveland, Portland, OR, Seattle, NYC, Perhaps Philadelphia, San Diego, Ashland, OR; also bookstore events where author has connections including Book Passage-Corte Madeira/SFC and Rakestraw Books-Orinda.
• Targeted reviews targeted from book trade and education media.
• Social media promotion to followers of NAIS on Facebook and other targeted audiences.
• Tradeshow features at American Library Association MidWinter, ALA Annual, BEA, PNBA, MPIBA.

The fate of the beloved school is hanging in the balance. . .

"From the very first paragraphs, Saving Miss Oliver's is an engaging read and is very highly recommended to all general fiction readers."
--Midwest Book Review

"There are moments here that indicate that Davenport, who, as his bio notes, 'had a long career in education,' was probably an excellent teacher, like a scene in which Francis explicates a Robert Frost poem with his class, and there are some wonderful students, like the head of the school newspaper who is conducting research about the sex lives of students. . . A book for anyone who's wondered about the inner workings and worries of a school administration."
--Kirkus Reviews

The prestigious boarding school Miss Oliver's School for Girls is on the cusp of going under. The trustees just fired the headmistress of the last thirty-five years, and the alumnae and students are angry and determined to hate her successor, the new--and male--head Fred Kindler. If only he can gain the support of the legendary senior teacher Francis Plummer, then Fred might have a fighting chance to save the school; but no one except Francis's wife and the school librarian, Peggy, is willing to give Fred a chance.

With Fred's career on the line and the Plummers' marriage at stake, will Miss Oliver's survive to be the school it once was?