teachers

Can Adam "Melonhead" Melon, who lives in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Capitol Hill, survive his fearsome fifth-grade teacher and his mother's resolution to cook healthy, nutritious meals?.

When her history teacher begins receiving death threats and her own name is near the top of the suspect list, eighth-grader Sammy is determined to find the real perpetrator, but she is distracted by her mother's relationship problems, her almost-boyfriend inexplicably avoiding her, and her duties as a reluctant bridesmaid.

Bunny is overjoyed when Ms. Darcy chooses her to take a note to Mrs. Walker, but gets lost trying to find the classroom.

Photographs and text follow second grade teacher Jan Hill through a typical day at work.

Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is chosen to be in the school spellathon.

An introduction to teachers, how and where they work, and the tools they use, with photographs and information that show how the profession has changed over the years, and including a look at a day in the life of a teacher in the late 1800s and in the twenty-first century.

Throughout their fifth-grade year, a group of rambunctious students learns fable-like lessons from extraordinary activities, singing hamsters, and eccentric teachers, led by the inimitable Mr. Jupiter.

When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.

Luis has so many books in his little house in Colombia that he buys two donkeys and travels throughout the land bringing the joy of reading to children.