Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools Around the World - Softcover

Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner, 2012
Shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, Juvenile Non-fiction category, 2011

"Off to Class is an easy-to-read yet detailed book that should, at the very least, be in every school library, if not every classroom and home."
Quill & Quire, starred review

"The strong emphasis on humanitarianism will move, excite, and inspire those reading...Off to Class will encourage them to help to 'be the change they wish to see in the world.'"
School Library Journal

"Hughes's examples of grassroots education in action are inspirational and informative."
Publishers Weekly

Describes some of the different and unusual school settings around the world, from an environmentally sustainable school in India to schools within caves in China and schools for the nomadic tribes of Siberia.