Mary decides it's all right to cheat to make sure she wins a special lunch with her favorite teacher, but the results of her dishonesty end up surprising the whole second grade class.
When a scholarship girl and a wealthy classmate become friends, their bond is tested when a handsome young teacher separately influences the girls in order to further his less-than-admirable interests.
Single mother and college professor Gina Paletta finds her attempts to build a safe, protected life for her two sons threatened when two of her students post salacious photographs of her on the Internet and are linked to a series of violent murders.
transforming difficult elementary classrooms through developmental discipline
Watson, Marilyn
2003
Uses real-life examples from an inner-city classroom to demonstrate the importance of caring, trusting relationships between teachers and students in a child's social and ethical development.
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Mr. Terupt's former students have entered junior high and, each of them having their own personal issues, are afraid their group will split up. Hoping their former teacher can help, they find that it is he who is in need of saving.
