teacher-student relationship

Eleven-year-old, motherless Alice decides she needs a gorgeous role model who does everything right; and when placed in homely Mrs. Plotkins's class she is greatly disappointed until she discovers it's what people are inside that counts.

Seventeen-year-old Olivia Peters, who dreams of becoming a writer, is thrilled to be selected to take a college fiction seminar taught by her idol, Father Mark, but when the priest's enthusiasm for her writing develops into something more, Olivia shifts from wonder to confusion to despair.

Jake remembers the terrible days in third grade when everyone thought he was the teacher's pet.

Retells the myth of Chiron, wisest of the centaurs who gives up immortality for Prometheus, in a modern setting where Chiron is a high-school science teacher, George Caldwell, and Prometheus is his fifteen-year-old son, Peter.

Louisiana-based educational author and speaker Breaux is a former curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher; she now trains and supports new teachers, trains assessors for the Louisiana Dept. of Education, and is an international presenter for the Bureau of Education and Research. The 20 chapters of her text offer new and experienced teachers, mentors, instructional coaches, and staff developers a look at 20 common teaching mistakes and how the best teachers avoid and correct them in order to take charge of themselves and their classrooms to create a calm, caring, structured learning environment. A sampling of topics: assuming students already know, engaging in power struggles, allowing for unstructured time, failing to organize, lowering expectations, neglecting priorities, being inconsistent, delaying feedback, and refusing to acknowledge mistakes. No subject index. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Describes fourteen practices the author has identified as characteristic of great teachers, and discusses the benefits of learning from the most effective educators.

Magician, Mr. Norrel of Hurtfew Abbey, uses his powers against Napoleon and the French in 1806 and is soon challenged by Jonathan Strange, a novice magician, who becomes obsessed with the Raven King, the twelfth-century founder of English magic and bizarre forms of magic.

Presents the story of what happens in an Australian urban high school, as told alternately by the assistant principal and the most troublesome student in school; it attempts to show the uncomfortable relationship between staff, parents, and students.

Discovering that their beloved former teacher Miss Applebaum is terminally ill, fifteen-year-old Henry and his friend Zelda accompany her on her excursions to the colorful parts of New York City and join her in confronting death with quiet courage.

Fifteen-year-old Angelyn Stark, a troubled high school student, is trying to get along while keeping a terrible secret about her past, but when one of her teachers tries to offer her encouragement and support, she does not know how to react.