Jeff and Tad, eighth cancer survivors, are in Miss Palma's English class studying "Cyrano de Bergerac". They decide, like Cyrano, to make a beau geste. Jeff will try to pass the state math test, although methotrexate he has taken for cancer has caused brain damage making math extraordinarily difficult for him. If he does not pass the test, he will fail 8th grade. Tad will be his tutor and accomplish the seemingly impossible. Jeff is helping Tad to work out so that he will be able to walk across the stage at 8th grade graduation. (He is wheel chair bound.) Lindsey, a new girl from California, takes a liking to Jeff and assists Tad in a plot to subvert the testing. Jeff's brother, who has fled to Africa to study drumming and to find himself, decides t return when his ex-girlfriend, Annette, sends him a MeTube video of the walk out.
"It's amazing what a little fame and a fatal disease will do for a guy's popularity rating."
"A big part of why we're here is support the people around us."
Truman Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-13
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