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''Ethan, Suspended'' is Pamela Ehrenberg's 2007 YA novel debut. After getting [[PunBasedTitle suspended]] from his suburban Philadelphia school, 13-year-old Ethan Oppenheimer is sent to live with his grandparents, the last remaining Jewish family in their UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC neighborhood.
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''Ethan, Suspended'' is Pamela Ehrenberg's 2007 YA novel debut. After getting [[PunBasedTitle suspended]] suspended from his suburban Philadelphia school, 13-year-old Ethan Oppenheimer is sent to live with his grandparents, the last remaining Jewish family in their UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC neighborhood.
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* EatingLunchAlone: Ethan eats lunch on the stairs outside the cafetera after sitting at a "reserved" table on the first day. Later we find out [[spoiler: his mom had done that when ''she'' went to school there, and kids would dump stuff on her head as they passed by]].
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* EatingLunchAlone: Ethan eats lunch on the stairs outside the cafetera cafeteria after sitting at a "reserved" table on the first day. Later we find out [[spoiler: his mom had done that when ''she'' went to school there, and kids would dump stuff on her head as they passed by]].
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* UsefulNotes/AmericanEducationalSystem: The inequalities within it are a major theme.
* UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement
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* {{Keet}}: Felix.
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Ethan quickly comes to think his whole life is "suspended", what with his grandparents' lack of 21st-century technology and his new school's lack of soap and paper towels in the washroom. Oh, and he's the ''only'' white student in the predominantly African-American and Hispanic school. And his bedroom was last occupied by an uncle who died at age 20, decades ago, and is untouched down to his old ''LoneRanger'' comics. Back home, Ethan's parents are busy getting separated and the only updates he gets are from his sister, who herself is in college in California.
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Ethan quickly comes to think his whole life is "suspended", what with his grandparents' lack of 21st-century technology and his new school's lack of soap and paper towels in the washroom. Oh, and he's the ''only'' white student in the predominantly African-American and Hispanic school. And his bedroom was last occupied by an uncle who died at age 20, decades ago, and is untouched down to his old ''LoneRanger'' ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'' comics. Back home, Ethan's parents are busy getting separated and the only updates he gets are from his sister, who herself is in college in California.
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''Ethan, Suspended'' is Pamela Ehrenberg's 2007 YA novel debut. After getting [[PunBasedTitle suspended]] from his suburban Philadelphia school, 13-year-old Ethan Oppenheimer is sent to live with his grandparents, the last remaining Jewish family in their UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC neighborhood.
Ethan quickly comes to think his whole life is "suspended", what with his grandparents' lack of 21st-century technology and his new school's lack of soap and paper towels in the washroom. Oh, and he's the ''only'' white student in the predominantly African-American and Hispanic school. And his bedroom was last occupied by an uncle who died at age 20, decades ago, and is untouched down to his old ''LoneRanger'' comics. Back home, Ethan's parents are busy getting separated and the only updates he gets are from his sister, who herself is in college in California.
Basically, the setup is an inversion of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
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!!Tropes, Suspended:
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: The grandparents are obsessive coupon clippers.
* AlterKocker: Ethan's grandparents.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanEducationalSystem: The inequalities within it are a major theme.
* UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement
* CharacterBlog: [[http://www.myspace.com/ethansuspended/blog Here]]. Caution-spoilers.
** LiteraryAgentHypothesis
** TechMarchesOn: It's on [=MySpace=].
* EatingLunchAlone: Ethan eats lunch on the stairs outside the cafetera after sitting at a "reserved" table on the first day. Later we find out [[spoiler: his mom had done that when ''she'' went to school there, and kids would dump stuff on her head as they passed by]].
* [[ElaborateUniversityHigh Elaborate University]] MiddleSchool: Maple Heights, Ethan's school back home.
* FishOutOfWater: Ethan
* FunnyForeigner: The Krashevskys, recent immigrants from Russia, are seen as weird. Alex, in Ethan's class, wore Hello Kitty T-shirts and brought cold hot dogs on white bread to lunch when he first arrived in 3rd grade. He's acclimated since, but his mom's the only one in Maple Heights who ''walks'' to the supermarket.
* InnerCitySchool: Parker Junior High.
* {{Keet}}: Felix.
* NoodleIncident: What got Ethan suspended is left as this for over half the book.
* NonuniformUniform: Sharita's multicolored socks are literally the first thing Ethan notices about her, and are described in detail every time he sees her for the first time on a given school day.
* PekingDuckChristmas: An Oppenheimer family tradition.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Or the juvenile equivalent.
* {{Suburbia}}
* TransferStudentUniforms: Inverted - Ethan is left to think he's in the District of Columbia for only a few days' visit. Then he sees the new uniform in a shopping bag on the desk in his (uncle's) bedroom. Also inverted (on another axis?) by the fact that having previously gone to a suburban school with a good reputation, he's never had to wear one before.
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''Ethan, Suspended'' is Pamela Ehrenberg's 2007 YA novel debut. After getting [[PunBasedTitle suspended]] from his suburban Philadelphia school, 13-year-old Ethan Oppenheimer is sent to live with his grandparents, the last remaining Jewish family in their UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC neighborhood.
Ethan quickly comes to think his whole life is "suspended", what with his grandparents' lack of 21st-century technology and his new school's lack of soap and paper towels in the washroom. Oh, and he's the ''only'' white student in the predominantly African-American and Hispanic school. And his bedroom was last occupied by an uncle who died at age 20, decades ago, and is untouched down to his old ''LoneRanger'' comics. Back home, Ethan's parents are busy getting separated and the only updates he gets are from his sister, who herself is in college in California.
Basically, the setup is an inversion of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''.
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!!Tropes, Suspended:
* AllJewsAreCheapskates: The grandparents are obsessive coupon clippers.
* AlterKocker: Ethan's grandparents.
* UsefulNotes/AmericanEducationalSystem: The inequalities within it are a major theme.
* UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement
* CharacterBlog: [[http://www.myspace.com/ethansuspended/blog Here]]. Caution-spoilers.
** LiteraryAgentHypothesis
** TechMarchesOn: It's on [=MySpace=].
* EatingLunchAlone: Ethan eats lunch on the stairs outside the cafetera after sitting at a "reserved" table on the first day. Later we find out [[spoiler: his mom had done that when ''she'' went to school there, and kids would dump stuff on her head as they passed by]].
* [[ElaborateUniversityHigh Elaborate University]] MiddleSchool: Maple Heights, Ethan's school back home.
* FishOutOfWater: Ethan
* FunnyForeigner: The Krashevskys, recent immigrants from Russia, are seen as weird. Alex, in Ethan's class, wore Hello Kitty T-shirts and brought cold hot dogs on white bread to lunch when he first arrived in 3rd grade. He's acclimated since, but his mom's the only one in Maple Heights who ''walks'' to the supermarket.
* InnerCitySchool: Parker Junior High.
* {{Keet}}: Felix.
* NoodleIncident: What got Ethan suspended is left as this for over half the book.
* NonuniformUniform: Sharita's multicolored socks are literally the first thing Ethan notices about her, and are described in detail every time he sees her for the first time on a given school day.
* PekingDuckChristmas: An Oppenheimer family tradition.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: Or the juvenile equivalent.
* {{Suburbia}}
* TransferStudentUniforms: Inverted - Ethan is left to think he's in the District of Columbia for only a few days' visit. Then he sees the new uniform in a shopping bag on the desk in his (uncle's) bedroom. Also inverted (on another axis?) by the fact that having previously gone to a suburban school with a good reputation, he's never had to wear one before.
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