Orem Library

The job of a teacher is explained to younger readers in this book that encourages them to develop their social awareness and look up to individuals as role models in their community. It follows Ms. Hill, a second grade teacher, through her day at home and school. Ms. Hill brings 28 fish to school today. What will she and her students do with all those fish? Find out. This unique series accurately portrays real life situations that help young children...

"A reassuring, informative book for children about teachers and schools"--Page [4] of cover.

A "mockumentary" about high school teachers and the challenges they face.

Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancée runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter, Hope.

William Crimsworth goes to Brussels to seek his fortune and falls in love with Frances, and schoolteacher and lace-maker, while at the same time being pursued by Mademoiselle Reuter.

Agatha McGee is following a dream, though it might be late in the game. She's just retired from a career of teaching and travels to Ireland in search of the romance she never had time for. And along the way, she not only discovers people she would never have let herself know before, but learns through experience, at long last, that love is unpredictable, unstoppable, and never appears as we dream it will.

Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class. When a colleague talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, her comfortable world turns upside. A violent prison riot breaks out, and in the chaos, Nat rushes to help an injured guard. Before he dies, he asks her to deliver a cryptic message. The dying declaration plunges Nat into a nightmare. Suddenly, the girl who has always...

"A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what's really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to tell the true, sometimes shocking, always inspirational stories of three teachers as they navigate a year in the classroom. She follows Penny, a southern middle school math teacher who...

First-grader Posey and her friends are excited about Halloween, but also a little nervous about trick-or-treating and eating Miss Lee's monster stew.

Five diverse experts in history, psychology, marine biology and Asian Studies (Michael Berry, Carol Dweck, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Edie Widder, and Philip Zimbardo) give their views on how to improve the high school experience.