Me the Flunkie Author:Andrew Summers Andrew Summers began Operation Wastebasket in an attempt to salvage a group of doomed teenagers. Fifteen, sixteen; school failures, dropouts, slum dwellers, street-gang members, police problems; abandoned by parents, with third-grade educations and no jobs. 23 miserable cases, handpicked from the waste baskets of society, were sent to his door. ... more »The "door" was a small government project that was set up to give these youths a reprieve from misery and a new start. This book is mainly a collection of class papers in which these students express whimsy, hilarity, gloom and tragedy, along with bad spelling and worse grammar. But, it shows how hope and efforts can sometimes win out despite hardship and misery.« less