Accelerated

By Bronwen Hruska

Subjects: Fathers and sons, Pediatric psychopharmacology, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, family life, Fathers and sons, fiction, Private schools, Fiction, Single fathers, Fiction, thrillers, general, New york (n.y.), fiction

Description: Every afternoon Sean Benning picks up his son, Toby, on the marble steps that lead into the prestigious Bradley School. Everything at Bradley is accelerated-- 3rd graders read at the 6th grade level, they have labs and facilities to rival most universities, and the chess champions are the bullies. A single dad and struggling artist, Sean sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the power-soccer-mom cliques and ladies-who-lunch that congregate on the steps every afternoon --