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The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
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The Teacher From the Black Lagoon
by Mike ThalerAn outrageously funny tale of how rumors can make a student create a monster of any teacher!
$18.95
Audiobook CD | Grades PreK-3
Grades PreK-3 $18.95
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Substitute Teacher Essential Folder
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Substitute Teacher Essential Folder
New, updated version of our popular "Substitute Teacher Essential Folder!" This clever pocket folder contains a 16 page reproducible booklet inside. The information and ideas half both the substitute and the regular classroom teacher. This is the perfect companion for every classroom. It is filled with check lists, patterns for lesson plans, daily reports, classroom management tips, discipline ideas and much, much more. All activities are adaptable to a variety of gra
$5.99
Folder | Grades K-5
Grades K-5 $5.99
Interest Level:
9-12
Lexile Framework:
750
Grade Level Equivalent:
5.6
Guided Reading Level:
NR
Age:
14-18
Genre:
Comedy and Humor, Historical Fiction
Subject:
Family Life, Friends and Friendship, School Life, Responsibility
"If your teacher has to die, August isn't a bad time of year for it," begins Richard Peck's novel, a book full of his signature wit and sass. Russell Culver is fifteen in 1904, and he's raring to leave his tiny Indiana farm town for the endless sky of the Dakotas. To him, school has been nothing but a chain holding him back from his dreams. Maybe now that his teacher has passed on, they'll shut the school down entirely and leave him free to roam.
No such luck. Russell has a particularly eventful season of schooling ahead of him, led by a teacher he never could have predicted — perhaps the only teacher equipped to control the likes of him: his sister Tansy. Despite stolen supplies, a privy fire, and more than any classroom's share of snakes, Tansy will manage to keep that school alive and maybe, just maybe, set her brother on a new, wiser course.
As he did in A Long Way from Chicago and A Year Down Yonder, Richard Peck creates a whole world of folksy, one-of-a-kind characters here — the enviable and the laughable, the adorably meek and the deliciously terrifying. There will be no forgetting Russell, Tansy, and all the rest who populate this hilarious, shrewd, and thoroughly enchanting novel.
