teacher-student relationships

John Keating is a passionate English teacher at a stuffy private school who encourages his students to question authority and live life to its fullest. The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm, changing their lives forever.

Jaime Escalante, an East LA math teacher, motivates his students to strive and succeed in the classroom and in life.

In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.

Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The good ones. The not-so-good ones. But Ms. Bixby is none of these. She's the sort of teacher who makes you feel like the indignity of school is worthwhile. So when Ms. Bixby unexpectedly announces that she is very sick and won't be able to finish the school year, three friends come up with a plan to tell her how much she means to them.

Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.

Trisha wants to write something that will please her demanding writing teacher, who is rumored to have never given a student an A.

Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price.

"Since their parents divorce when they were young, Nell and her sister Layla have been each other's stability and support. When Layla starts to pull away, Nell discovers a secret: Layla is involved with one of their teachers. Nell struggles with what to do"--.

Hina's love for her secretive homeroom teacher, Shiro, grows, but the traumas of her past--numerous kidnappings by those after her wealthy father's money--catch up to her and threaten their special friendship.