Buyea, Rob.
Summary: "The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2015
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Summary: A young boy named Bobby has the worst teacher. She's loud, she yells, and, if you throw paper airplanes, she won't allow you to enjoy recess. She is a monster! Luckily, Bobby can go to his favorite spot in the park on the weekends to play. Until one day, he finds his teacher there! Over the course of one day, Bobby learns that monsters are not always what they seem.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG BROSummary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEAAndreae, Giles
Summary: A colourful, fun-filled picture book all about school! Put your coat on the hook, play with friends and join in all the day's activities. Start with show and tell, reading and writing, then playtime, making things and singing. Teacher makes sure every school day is the best! This sweet and simple story follows a typical school day, from morning hello's to hometime. Perfect for sharing with your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ANDDanneberg, Julie
Summary: "Sarah Jane Hartwell has the jitters again as she tries to orchestrate an extra-special Valentine's Day party for her students; things may not go as planned, but her students know how much she cares and show her that they do, too"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2021
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: JE DANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays - Springtime Holidays, Call number: JE DANMali, Taylor
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text celebrate the special teachers who make a difference in our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MALAndreae, Giles
Summary: A sweet and simple celebration of teachers, this rhyming story follows a typical school day from morning hellos to hometime, preparing young children for just what to expect when they start school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD ANDMcFadden, Freida
Summary: "Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCFSmith, Emma Bland
Summary: "The McNallys are visiting the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on the border of Georgia and Florida. On a swamp tour, Gavin captures two people trapping baby alligators on video. He and his father set off in kayaks to investigate. Can they notify officials about the poachers in time to save the alligators?"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMISummary: When a new friend and co-worker begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to keep the affair secret as a means to manipulate her friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOTSteinke, Aron Nels
Summary: When the students in Mr. Wolf's class learn about personal narratives, Sampson doesn't think anything worth writing about has ever happened to him, until a bicycle accident gives him a new perspective.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Middle-school band teacher Joe's true passion is jazz, but when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have a soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC DISDean, James
Summary: "Pete is spending the day at the seashore. He has fun collecting shells and building a sand castle. But the beach is very hot. There is a whole ocean for Pete to cool off in, but it looks scary. Pete's brother, Bob, offers to teach Pete to surf. Will that be enough to help Pete get over his fear of the water?"--Description from Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN DCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR ORANGE DEASummary: A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDSummary: In this remarkable anthology, some of the world's greatest writers provide a master class on the transformative power of learning and literature. Culled from a course developed by Pulitzer Prize'winning author Robert Coles for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching Stories is an invaluable collection in which novelists, essayists, and poets "render school life in all its complexity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TEABarnes, Julian
Summary: "From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography. This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCarleton, Jetta.
Summary: "A novel of small-town love by Jetta Carleton, the author of the recently republished classic The Moonflower Vine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARHart, Michelle
Summary: "A novel about a young woman's life-altering affair with a much older, married woman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARHeller, Zoe.
Summary: When her new friend and co-worker, Sheba Hart, begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to defend Sheba and unknowingly reveals secrets they both hide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2003
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Summary: A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war--with deadly consequences--in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LUTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Lutz 2019Messud, Claire
Summary: Relegated to the status of schoolteacher and friendly neighbor after abandoning her dreams of becoming an artist, Nora advocates on behalf of a charismatic Lebanese student and is drawn into the child's family until his artist mother's careless ambition leads to a shattering betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MESStone, Robert
Summary: Hoping to save his marriage by ending an illicit affair with an incandescent but difficult student, college professor Steven Brookman discovers that the young woman's passions are not easily curtailed and that their relationship has more complicated ramifications than either anticipated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOMeadows, Daisy.
Summary: Evie, the mist fairy might have caused Wetherbury to get all fogged up by loosing her feather, and the weather fairies must bring back the good weather.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEAClements, Andrew
Summary: When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2010