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This volume examines the different facets of the teaching profession in Colonial America, including the varied odd-jobs the schoolmaster often had to perform in addition to his teaching chores.

The first day of seventh grade was probably the worst day of Duncan Dougal's life.

After Susan sees Mr. Smith, the substitute teacher, peel off his face, she knows he is an alien and only Peter believes her; and together they work to save the class from Mr.

The Bailey School kids decide to investigate when they begin to believe that the new student teacher, Mr.

A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.

Arthur is upset when his teacher moves into Arthur's house. Then he discovers she wears normal clothes, likes cartoons, and actually knows how to have fun.

A young boy, faced with the prospect of having to take a music class, thinks about all the terrible stories he has heard about the music teacher, Miss LaNote, and the ordeals she forces her students to endure.

Elizabeth tries to tell her family that there is something wrong with her new teacher, but they cannot see it, even though Miss Turtledove has orange eyes, eats desks, and throws fruit at the students.

The Bailey School kids set out to discover whether Eddie's new math tutor (who is also a juggler for the Bailey City Summer Festival) is really a sea serpent.

Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.

A first grader is frightened on her first day of school after hearing a rumor that her teacher is a 300-year-old alien with a purple tongue who steals baby teeth from her students.

A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of Barbara Park's "Junie B.

Mr. Docker, a new science teacher, is a crazy inventor who blows things up, uses potatoes for power, and has A.

Boring Mr. Loring retires, and A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.

A.J. and his friends launch their own investigation when they get stuck with weird substitute Ms.