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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople, but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also falls in love with one.
Author
Series
My weirdest school volume 9
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this ninth book in the new My Weirdest School series, Miss Universe is coming to Ella Mentry School! Her real name is Miss Tracy, and she's a retired scientist who will teach the students about planets and the solar system. But what happens when A.J. is cast as the planet Uranus in the school play? Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School chapter book series has something for everyone. Don't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Matthew Perez, the official timekeeper of Mrs. Mallory's third-grade class, has a special good-bye gift for her. The shool year is coming to an end, and everyone at Albert E. Chapman Elementary School is counting down, including Mrs. Mallory's third grade class. In the last weeks of school there is much to be done, from putting away supplies to cleaning out desks to finding a summer home for the class pet, Rhoda. Now -- finally -- the last day is...
Author
Series
Clementine volume 3
Language
English
Description
While finding new vegetable names to call her little brother, eight-year-old Clementine hatches a plan to prevent her beloved teacher from being selected to go on a once-in-a-lifetime research trip to Egypt.
Clementine has to figure a way to keep her teacher, Mr. D'Matz, from going to Egypt.
Author
Series
Miss Smith volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
When Miss Smith brings her students to the public library, they not only meet Virginia Creeper, the librarian, but also a host of frightening creatures that emerge from the pages of the "Incredible Storybook" as Ms. Creeper reads her favorite tales.
Author
Series
Jocelyn Shore novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jocelyn Shore investigates the murder of friend and fellow teacher Fred Argus, whose demise has been sullied by false rumors that he was selling drugs.
Author
Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 4
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Junie B.'s penchant for spying on people and her curiosity about the private life of her teacher get her in trouble at kindergarten.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 4
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Description
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.
92) One perfect lie
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being lured down a darker path by one of his teammates, a secretly disturbed young man from an affluent family, whose excellent grades...
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 6
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While Ms. Shelby-Ortiz is recovering from an injury, substitute Mr. Willow takes over Nikki and Deja's third-grade class with disastrous results.
Author
Series
Rosie novels (Graeme Simsion) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 16
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a sinister substitute teacher takes over their class, it is up to Eugene and the rest of the Sunnyview Superhero Squad to find Ms. Beasley and foil the sub's plot.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." -Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army's internment of teachers and children from a British-run missionary school. Their motto was to be prepared,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Part coming-of-age story, part psychological thriller, part philosophical investigation, this book, based in part on a viral New York Times essay, follows the author's quest to prove her wife's innocence in a sexual misconduct case, exploring the line between truth and deception, fact and fiction, and reality and conspiracy.
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