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Pub. Date
2014.
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"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...
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Planet Omar volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Omar is going on his biggest adventure yet--a trip to Pakistan! But his excitement about the trip is interrupted by some shocking news: his amazing teacher is not coming back to school, and no one will say why. When Omar and his friends start investigating, the hints they overhear and clues they find lead them to an alarming conclusion--it must be aliens! Omar has a huge imagination, but saving his teacher from aliens seems far-fetched even to him....
46) Cooties
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into little killer savages, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This film chronicles a year in the life of a one-room schoolhouse in rural France, presided over by Georges Lopez, a devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11. The film sees the teacher as artist, and presents teaching as a form of love. Because along with reading, writing, and arithmetic, the children learn about what we think of as the basic values of civilization: reason, tolerance, learning, cooperation, and comradeship....
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Alex Cross volume 1
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Begins with a double kidnapping: the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Sara, an uptight schoolteacher, is appalled when one of her students brings in Virgil, a hulking biker and tattoo artist, whom arrives for the class' show-and-tell. Sara's well-ordered life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself wanting to know more about Virgil and his lifestyle. She ultimately has to decide which man and which lifestyle she wants to live with and by.
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The teacher from the Black Lagoon: On the first day of school, a young boy expects the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monster", Mrs. Green. What's under my bed?: Mary Ann and Louie are convinced there is something scary under their beds. By the light of the Halloween moon: A spying cat, a watchful witch, a hobgoblin sprite, all are scary companions who plan to gobble up a young girl. The three robbers: Three robbers terrify the...
52) The road home
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
The story of a man's parent's courtship unfolds when he comes home to bury his father.
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Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 2
Description
Set in a small Georgia town during World War II, the Miss Dimple series features Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, longtime first-grade teacher at Elderberry Grammar School. Fastidious in her dress and distinctive in her manner, she is the epitome of small-town graciousness. Miss Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime at home as well as abroad. It's September 1943, and the town of Elderberry, Georgia, has exciting...
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Ron Clark story: This drama is based on events in the life of Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who left his small town to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. Clark uses persistence and unconventional methods to reach his students and encourage them to reach their full potential.
The kid: This is a powerful coming-of-age story following the ups and downs of a young boxer's life inside and outside the ring. Jimmy has a calling...