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Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
In 2014, after a brief orientation course and a few fingerprinting sessions, Nicholson Baker became an on-call substitute teacher in a Maine public school district. Nearly every morning, he awoke to the dispatcher's five-forty a.m. phone call and headed to a nearby school. When he got there, he did his best to follow lesson plans and help his students get something done. In Baker's hands, the inner life of the classroom is examined anew -- mundane...
Author
Publisher
Spiderline
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph. D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his backyard, and Warren, shocked, flees the scene.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
June Papers is a twenty-eight-year-old MFA grad with a felony record, "the classic young, Black and gifted American misfit." He's also a substitute teacher. He's also homeless. With dreams of becoming a writer, June endures a host of trials and dilemmas as he reluctantly realizes mentoring and teaching might actually be a path forward for him. Wings of Red is driven by June's unique narrative style, a propulsive voice that intimately and vulnerably...
Author
Series
Cat books (Deborah Underwood) volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cat is not so keen on stepping in as substitute teacher at Kitty School, but he's surprised by how much he's able to teach the kittens--and how much he learns from them"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 12
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends are afraid that Ms. Todd, their substitute teacher, has killed their regular teacher and is trying to take over her job.
Author
Series
Captain Awesome volume 16
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a sinister substitute teacher takes over their class, it is up to Eugene and the rest of the Sunnyview Superhero Squad to find Ms. Beasley and foil the sub's plot.
14) Ho ho homework
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmastime and Jack's new substitute teacher, Mr. Clausen, teaches the class how to make paper snowflake wishes, all the while reminding the class of another gentleman with a long white beard who enjoys a snack of milk and cookies.
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 8
Language
English
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
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Accepting a temporary teaching job for a group of privileged students who are reeling from a peer's recent murder, aspiring writer Vera Lundy bonds with a fifteen-year-old student whose sinister nature threatens another student and Vera's professional reputation.
Author
Series
Nikki and Deja volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deja is dismayed to learn that her teacher has had an accident and a substitute will be taking her place. Under the new sub's care, nothing is the same in Room Ten. A few of the class troublemakers plot to take advantage of the clueless teacher, and soon other students join in. Should Nikki and Deja go along with the rest of the kids in tormenting him? Should they help him out by tattling on their classmates? Or is there another way to handle the...
19) No more nasty
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
When Simon's Great Aunt Matilda becomes the substitute teacher for his unruly fifth-grade class, her unique way of looking at things gives the students a new perspective on learning.
20) Spare parts
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Four Hispanic high school students organize a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and big dreams, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
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