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761) I love my teacher!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"Daniel Tiger and his classmates are showing their love and appreciation for Teacher Harriet! There are so many things that Teacher Harriet does that make her a wonderful teacher--from helping Daniel and his friends learn and grow every day to learning how to solve a problem and trying different foods"--
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"As an adjunct professor of English with a draining and tedious courseload, Dorothy feels "like a janitor in the temple who continued to sweep because she had no idea what else to do but who had lost her belief in the essential sanctity of the enterprise." No one but her partner knows that she's just had a miscarriage, not even her therapists--Dorothy being the kind of person who begins seeing a second because she's too conflict-averse to break things...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 blu-rays (1001 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite their loss at the Regionals, the kids in New Directions are more motivated than ever. And whether it's Will doing a sexy tango with a substitute teacher, Sue joining the glee club, or everyone catching Bieber fever, the excitement at William McKinley High School is keeping everyone on their toes. With more incredible musical numbers.
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Description
In 2015, at the age of 97, President Barack Obama awarded Katherine Johnson, whose life inspired the movie "Hidden Figures", the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom--the nation's highest civilian honor--for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. In this memoir, she shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement,...
765) Up the learning tree
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
A young slave boy risks his life to learn how to read and, with the unsuspecting help of a teacher from the North, begins to realize his dream.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Drawn from the secret diaries and journals of novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, this is a reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, documenting his experiences in vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving academe to become tattoo artist Phil...
768) The Landry News
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
769) The Ron Clark story
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
480 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Jane Howard is a professor in Boston, in love with a brilliant, erratic man named Theo, and she becomes pregnant. Motherhood turns out to be a great welcome surprise--but when a devastating turn of events tears her existence apart she has no choice but to flee all she knows and leave the world. Just when she has renounced life itself, the disappearance of a young girl pulls her back from the edge and into an obsessive search for some sort of personal...
773) The girl who died
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavaik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skaalar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
327 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Rush Revere volume 1
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xi, 212 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm
Description
Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.
776) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben...
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Series
Little school by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
779) Mr. S
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
When a kindergarten class arrives for the first day at school, they are greeted only by the words "Mr. S" on the chalkboard and a delicious-looking sandwich, resulting in merry mayhem as the kids wonder if the sandwich is their teacher.
Author
Publisher
Atria Espanol
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor por la lectura...
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