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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all.
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Description
Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928, now public domain in the United States and Canada. It was Waugh's first published novel. Decline and Fall is based in part on Waugh's schooldays at Lancing College, undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his experience as a teacher at Arnold House in north Wales. It is a social satire that employs the author's characteristic black humour in lampooning...
64) Deserted station
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, while the woman takes over the duties of teaching the village children whose parents are nowhere to be found.
Author
Series
Gaskitt family volume 4
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
80 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Description
All the Gaskitts have a bad day when the baby rolls away in a shopping cart, the twins' teacher acts peculiar, and a lost bird tries to hypnotize the cat.
67) The midcoast
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Recently returned to a tourist haven on the coast of Maine, Andrew, a high school English teacher, is envious of his former friend Ed Thatch’s extravagant new lifestyle until he stumbles upon the truth, finding his envy turning to horror as the true story of the Thatches begins.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 307 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A witty odyssey inside the classroom offers a look at the entire teaching experience in a collection of essays that describes the author's experiences singing the blues in New York's Central Park as a student, and navigating a cutthroat kindergarten sign-up.
Author
Publisher
Vanguard Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 161 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A posthumous double volume of the influential author's first and last written works, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of his birth, includes the bitter satire "Basic training" and the unfinished final novel "If God were alive today".
76) Chalk
Publisher
Arts Alliance America
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the frenetic and awkwardly painful journey of three novice teachers as they navigate one memorable school year. Provides a teacher's perspective into the absurd, provocative and occasionally volatile world of public education.
77) Happy-go-lucky
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
78) Zombie cows!
Author
Series
Agent Amelia volume 2
Formats
Description
Amelia, a young secret agent, investigates some robotic animals, an enchanting music teacher, and a pair of remarkably beautiful twin bakers with a dastardly plot, all while avoiding her nemesis, Trudy Hart.
79) Detachment
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Henry Barthes is an educator with a talent to connect with his students. Yet as a substitute teacher he hides his gift to avoid emotional connections. When an assignment places him at a school with a burned-out administration and an apathetic student body, he becomes a role model as a teacher. His emotional bond with the students and teachers help him see he is not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless...
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