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1) Daddy's girl
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a riot breaks out in the prison she is visiting, law professor Natalie Greco witnesses the death of a prison guard whose last words reveal a dangerous conspiracy, putting Nat into a situation in which she is targeted by murderers and the police.
Author
Language
English
Description
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
3) Still alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease learns that her worth is comprised of more than her ability to remember. Now a major motion picture from Sony Pictures Classics starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart!
Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty years old, she’s a cognitive psychology professor...
Author
Series
Olive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
5) Olive, again
Author
Series
Olive volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return..."* And now, indeed, Olive Kitteridge has returned, as indomitable as ever. "It turns out--I just wasn't done with Olive," said Strout. "It was like she kept poking me in the ribs, so I finally said 'Okay, okay...'" Now Olive returns, this time as a person getting older, navigating her next decade...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume no. 8
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas-the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter-a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing like...
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 3
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 287 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie's attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers--and each other. Meanwhile, the girls...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
10) Lilly's big day
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
xxi, 336 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir offers a portrait of the author's family and childhood in Iran, centered around her powerful mother and her manipulative fictions about herself, as she reflects on women's choices and her own struggle to free herself from her mother's influence.
Author
Publisher
PaperStar
Pub. Date
1998, c1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, a junior high student uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
For first-grader Posey, every school day is great until her teacher's birthday, when her best friend's gift of an enormous bouquet puts Posey's few, home-grown roses to shame.
16) Still Just Grace
Author
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2009], c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
152 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a struggling student teacher assigns a group project, seven-year-old Just Grace gets so involved in working with Grace W. and Grace F. that she fails to understand why she and her best friend, Mimi, are drifting apart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Robbed of his teaching career and reputation by a student's false accusations, Jack St. Bride is struggling to rebuild his life, but fresh accusations of rape by teenage girls from his former school threaten to destroy him once again.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A group of high school teachers returning from a conference develop superpowers after an attack on the U.S. unleashes devastation, fire, and biological destruction in the form of a strange green mist that empowers women but kills men"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain...
Author
Series
School by the sea volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At Downey House, a charming English boarding school by the sea, new teacher Maggie is determined to make her mark, which jeopardizes her relationship with her safe, dependable boyfriend, while new student Simone tries to fit in and fellow student Fliss tries to get out.