Dr. Anthony Ryder is the most unorthodox superintendent of schools that anyone can imagine. He is a man of few words and immense presence who appears to be at least a decade younger than his forty years. He has only been the superintendent of the Highcliff Central School District for three months, and already he has upset some people. He wonders how his predecessor, James Matthews, did it for so long without losing his mind. Still, he knows he was...