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Summary: Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Polacco 2012Polacco, Patricia.
Summary: When Marilyn and her teacher, Miss Wichelman, both get cancer, they encourage each other and, aided by medical treatments and support from friends, they get better. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2007
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PolCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Miss Parks, a new teacher, is devastated when her cat, Autumn, disappears during a storm but with the help of her students she finds not only Autumn but also the man of her dreams.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC PolCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FICTION PolaccoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC POLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLPolacco, Patricia.
Summary: Inspired by a teacher who believes each of them is a genius, a class of special-needs students invents something that could convince the whole school they are justifiably proud to be "Junkyard Wonders."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2010