China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible...
Teacher-student relationships
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Author:Gaynor, HazelSummary: -
Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:Miskwaadesi is puzzled about the teaching Truth. But she knows more than she thinks she does. The Seven Teaching of the Anishinaabe -- love, wisdom, humility, courage, respect, honesty, and truth -- are revealed in these seven stories...
- Author:Raeder, LeahSummary:
Maise O'Malley just turned eighteen, but she's felt like a grown-up her entire life. The summer before senior year, she has plans: get into a great film school, convince her mom to go into rehab, and absolutely do not, under...
- Author:Peyskens, MaryseSummary:
Une classe de petits tannants de 3e année arrive à l'École des gars. Une école bien spéciale qui reçoit déjà des garçons (et une fille) de 5e et 6e année. Les enfants, accueillis par leurs enseignants sympathiques, sont grandement...
- Author:Peyskens, MaryseSummary:
Contrairement aux autres garçons de sa classe, Xavier est un enfant plutôt timide et tranquille. Pourtant, depuis quelque temps, il se fait remarquer en frappant tout ce qui l’entoure. À la demande de monsieur Dussault, le directeur de...
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Author:Albom, MitchSummary:Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make...
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Author:Korman, GordonSummary:The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher with a worse attitude than theirs. Then they met Mr. Kermit.
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Author:Grace, AmandaSummary:Smart girls aren’t supposed to do stupid things. On her first day at Green River Community College, Madelyn Hawkins meets Bennett Cartwright, her biology professor. He’s funny. He’s interested. And he has no idea that Madelyn is only...
- Author:Tartt, DonnaSummary:
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. In this brilliant debut novel, Donna Tartt gives us a richly textured and hypnotic story of...
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Author:Kittie, FallenSummary:Fallen contends with the tumultuous task of completing her first thesis, enjoying the entrails of her latest existential crisis. Whenever she finds a spare moment, she also finds her mind wanders to an old professor who proved to leave...
- Author:Moscovitch, HannahSummary:
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked...
- Author:Cotugno, Katie, Bushnell, CandaceSummary:
Marin, a star student and editor of the school paper, is shocked when her charismatic English teacher comes on to her. When Marin works up the courage to report it to the administration, no one believes her. As things heat up at school...
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Author:Bekins, AlixSummary:Stephan Burke's relationship with Eric has hit a rough patch, and they can't seem to reconnect after their summer apart. Despite being good together, Stephan feels something undefinable is missing. Now starting grad school, he's meeting...
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Author:Zumas, LeniSummary:One question. What is a woman for? In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every...
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Author:HELLER, Zo͡Summary:When Sheba Hart joins St George’s as the new pottery teacher, lonely Barbara Covett senses that she has found a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to Sheba. Before long Sheba is involved in an illicit...
- Author:Russell, Kate ElizabethSummary:
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, 15-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful 42-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against...
- Author:Sarah, RobynSummary:
After thirty-five years as an 'on-again, off-again, uncoached closet pianist,' poet and writer Robyn Sarah picked up the phone one day and called her old piano teacher, whom she had last seen in her early twenties. Music, Late...
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Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:Winner of the IODE National Chapter Award, and Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection. In this brillant and poetic novel, Brian Doyle returns to the Gatineau River near Ottawa, the world of his novels Up to Low and Uncle Ronald. Mary...
- Author:Fontaine, Naomi, Mémoire d'encrierSummary:
Une enseignante de français en poste sur une réserve innue de la Côte-Nord raconte la vie de ses élèves qui cherchent à se prendre en main. Elle tentera tout pour les sortir de la détresse, même se lancer en théâtre avec eux. Dans ces...
- Author:Napoli, RoseSummary:
Ten years ago, Laura was a student in Alan Wells' English class. She was uncharacteristically smart for a fifteen-year-old - perceptive and vulnerable - a dream for a flailing teacher. Now, at twenty-five, Laura has written her...
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