{"product_id":"graveyard-shift-academy-the-longest-s-scott-9798256136055","title":"Graveyard Shift Academy the Longest Route: Book Four of the Working Class Youth Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eDEDICATION\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the drivers-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe ones who know every pothole by name, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho wait for the woman with the stroller even when they're running late, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho carry a city on their shoulders every morning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand bring it home every night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis route is for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREVIOUSLY IN GRAVEYARD SHIFT ACADEMY\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive children of night-shift workers discovered the Graveyard Shift Academy underground. In Book Two, Miles became the Engine Room's keeper after fighting deferred maintenance at the port. In Book Three, Esperanza became the Healing Ward's keeper after launching the Night Watch Clinic for underserved night-shift communities. New students Leo (welder's son) and Nia (paramedic's daughter) joined the Academy. The crew continues to teach, learn, and carry the knowledge forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Kwame's story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Compass Remembers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI was crafted in 1939, in a watchmaker's shop on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, by a woman named Lena Yamashiro who built navigational instruments for fishing boats and merchant vessels and, once, secretly, for a crew of longshoremen who needed to find their way through the fog to a picket line on the far side of the estuary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am not an ordinary compass. An ordinary compass points north. I point toward need. Toward the nearest place where someone is waiting for something they cannot reach-a bus that doesn't come, a route that was cancelled, a connection that was severed by a budget cut or a policy decision or the simple, devastating fact that someone in an office decided that this neighborhood didn't generate enough revenue to justify a bus stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have been held by six navigators. Lena gave me to Patricia Odoms-Academy founder, bus driver, cartographer of the invisible city. Patricia mapped every route in Oakland not by where the buses went, but by where they didn't go. She understood that a transit map is a moral document. Every route it includes is a promise. Every route it excludes is a betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now I belong to Kwame Price. Eleven years old. The youngest navigator the Academy has ever produced. A boy who draws maps the way some people write prayers-with the desperate, stubborn belief that if you can show people where the gaps are, they might choose to fill them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy needle does not point north. It points toward the people who have been left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollow it. They are waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798256136055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bysscott.Org\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.30d","brand":"S. Scott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50921568502015,"sku":"9798256136055","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac9a5e59-8a8e-4ea0-ba21-5f7fad416754.jpg?v=1793819730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/graveyard-shift-academy-the-longest-s-scott-9798256136055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}