teachers

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teachers

The substitute creature

1995
Jace is convinced that Mr. Hiss, his substitute teacher, is a monster when he sees him smearing blood on his face in the men's room at school.

My teacher's a bug

1995
When his family moves from California to Texas, Ryan is horrified to discover on his first day of school that his teacher, Mr. Mantis, is a bug.

One final firecracker

2007
A giant spider and several other odd creatures from the earlier books in the Hamlet Chronicles return as the small Vermont town celebrates a grammar school graduation, Miss Earth's wedding, and the Fourth of July.

Charlotte Forten, free Black teacher

1971
A biography of the nineteenth-century black woman who taught newly-freed slaves.

One final firecracker

2005
A giant spider and several other odd creatures from the earlier books in the Hamlet Chronicles return as the small Vermont town celebrates a grammar school graduation, Miss Earth's wedding, and the Fourth of July.

Substitute trouble

2013
While Ms. Shelby-Ortiz is recovering from an injury, substitute Mr. Willow takes over Nikki and Deja's third-grade class with disastrous results.

Happy birthday, Mrs. Millie!

2012
Students surprise their beloved but silly teacher with a birthday party, giving her ample opportunity to make them laugh by mixing up her words.

The clueless girl's guide to being a genius

2011
When Aphrodite Wigglesmith, a thirteen-year-old, Harvard-educated mathematics genius, returns home to teach remedial math to middle school students, both she and her students end up getting unexpected lessons.

Through the glass

2012
When Shannon Moroney married in October of 2005, she had no idea that her idyllic life as a newlywed was about to come crashing down around her. Just weeks after her wedding a police officer arrived at her door to tell her that her husband, Jason, had been arrested and charged in the brutal assault and kidnapping of two women. In the aftermath of these crimes, Shannon deals with unimaginable grief, the stress and publicity of a major criminal investigation, and the painful stigma of guilt-by-association?all while attempting to understand what made her beloved husband turn to such violence.

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