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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. Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- Math-i-tude -- Mom and Dad-i-tude -- Mad-i-tude -- A New Attitude -- Brat-i-tude -- Not So Bad-it-tude -- Art-i-tude -- Cat-i-tude -- Flunk-i-tude -- Grat-i-tude -- Glad-i-tude -- Judy Moody's Not-Webster's New World College Dictionary,...

On the first day of school, a young boy expects only the worst when he discovers that his new teacher is the "monstrous" Mrs. Green.

Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when the teacher falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day.

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

This novel is based on the life of the author's "mother, Christy, who at 19 in 1912 joined an interdenominational mission in Cutter Gap, Ky. The transition from a genteel home to rugged life in the Kentucky backwoods is major, but Christy meets it with courage and enthusiasm. In her first year of teaching in a makeshift school she learns much about herself, and even more about the feuding, primitive, clannish folk she ministers to." Pub W.

"Chill's foot dragged behind him like a murder victim being taken to a shallow grave by a killer too weak to do the job-but he still stood straighter than any other kid in school." CHILL HAS ALWAYS BEEN different, but the way he deals with his disability, and his art, have given him the power to survive the horrors of high school. When a new teacher arrives, determined to crush his students' spirit, Chill decides to fight back and risk everything....

Silly teacher Mrs. Millie gets her words wrong when the class goes on a field trip to a pumpkin patch.

Mr. Dweebish, the new teacher at the Bear Country School, tries to explain to the class bully how democracy works.