Lean on Me by Deborah Chiel - Paperback Movie Novelization

Drug-pushing, Gun-dealing, Mugging, Prostitution, Riot.

The students are running the school, and anything goes...

Welcome to Eastside High, a crime-infested school in Paterson, New Jersey, where the only education is a hard lesson in survival.  Now someone new is in charge.  And nothing will every be the same.

Based on the true story of Joe Clark, the get-down, get-tough principal who lived by his own rules.  Armed with a bullhorn and a baseball bat, he patrolled the halls, locked out the pimps and punks, and turned a hell school back into a high school.  Some loved him.  Some hated him.  But he'd vowed to give his kids a chance--and he'd be damned if anyone stood in his way.