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Modern fiction about school teaching : an anthology
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- Creator
- edited by Jay S. Blanchard and Ursula Casanova ; foreword by Robert Coles
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [1996]
- ©1996
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 333 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780205152506, 0205152503
- OCLC
- ocm33008328
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-326) and indexes.
- Ch. 1. Teaching and Learning. The Heart of This or That Man / Donald Gropman. Peyo Merce: English Teacher / Abelardo Diaz Alfaro. A Country Boy Withdraws from School / Lao Hsiang. Excerpt from Staggerford / Jon Hassler. The Boy Who Couldn't Read / Jacqueline Wilson. Grade 5B and the Well-Fed Rat / Frances Gray Patton -- Ch. 2. Connections and Relationships. El Tim / Lucia Berlin. Rules and Secrets / Ruth Moose. Class Wars / Spiro Zavos. Doctor Jack-o'-Lantern / Richard Yates. Untimely Aid / Brian James. Robert / Stanley Ellin -- Ch. 3. Families. You Know What, Teacher? / Zenna Henderson. The Boy Without a Flag / Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. The Exercise / Bernard MacLaverty. The Second-Grade Mind / Frances Gray Patton. The Bufords / Elizabeth Spencer. Father's Help / R. K. Narayan -- Ch. 4. Special Challenges. The Blue Eagle / Barbara Packer. A Wreath for Miss Totten / Hortense Calisher. Space Is a Solid: Kari Lee / Denise Chavez. Class Outing / Lynda Schor. Little Brown Jesus / Joan O'Donovan -- Ch. 5. A Child's Point of View. The First Day / Edward P. Jones. Fun with a Stranger / Richard Yates. The First Robin in the World / Phillip Bonosky. Books / Paula Sharp. Her / Hugo Martinez-Serros. The Fun They Had / Isaac Asimov -- Ch. 6. Pride and Prejudices. The Boy Who Painted Christ Black / John H. Clarke. See How They Run / Mary Elizabeth Vroman. As the Night the Day / Abioseh Nicol. Limbo / Eddie Stack. Revenge / George Milburn -- Ch. 7. Rewards and Privileges. Awards / Andrea Freud Loewenstein. Rebecca by Any Other Name / Frances Silverberg. Discipline / Joanne S. Primoff. All Little Colored Children Should Play the Harmonica / Ann Patchett. The Wrong Lunch Line / Nicholasa Mohr -- Ch. 8. The World Beyond. Ricardo's War / Hugo Martinez-Serros. Citizens of the Third Grade / William Saroyan. How I Became a Jew / Clark Blaise. The Day We Discovered We Were Black / Davida Adejdouma -- Ch. 9. The World of Imagination. The Windows of Wonder / Bryan MacMahon. The Believing Child / Zenna Henderson. The Anything Box / Zenna Henderson. Kindergarten / James E. Gunn -- Ch. 10. Life and Death. The School / Donald Barthelme. Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher / Maria T. Solari. Gryphon / Charles Baxter. Death in the Fifth Grade / Marjorie Marks