teachers

"[A] funny, dark novel about one woman's post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her"--OCLC.

Olive Kitteridge, a retired teacher, begins navigating her next decade as she comes to terms with the changes, sometimes welcome, sometimes not, in her life.

"Even though it is summer, Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well"--Provided by publisher.

"Fred does not want to go to school because it's boring. Especially since he thinks his teacher is a robot! If only Fred could imagine a way for his day to be more exciting"--Provided by publisher.

Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monstrous" Mrs. Green.

If Jake's teacher, Mr. Hyde, gets too excited, he transforms into the misbehaving Creature, and when the class competes in the Whiz-BANG Science Fair, the students have to find a way to keep Creature's mischief from causing havoc.

Jake and his friends are playing in the local soccer tournament, and from the start everything goes wrong: they end up playing in banana suits (do not ask), Amelia, the fifth grade bully, forces her way on to the team and gets a yellow card, Jake injures his ankle--but worst of all, the chaos causes Mr. Hyde to turn into his alter ego, the Creature, a nasty imp bent on mischief.

On his first day at his new school Jake Jones meets the new teacher, Mr. Hyde (very nice, but turns into a naughty imp when upset), Mrs. Blount, the principal (a nasty tyrant whose punishments involve hard labor), and his wild classmates in 5B--and since it is almost impossible not to break at least one of the 142 school rules (or all of them) he soon finds his school life descending into chaos.

"When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide. With this group of students who are all hiding something, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a motive for murder"--Provided by the publisher.