Berthoud Community Library District

This uncensored diary of an unconventional teacher is a must read for those in this profession. In this diary, a record of Esme's frustrations, achievements, and struggles to maintain her individuality in the face of bureaucracy, she reveals what it takes to be a "genuine" teacher.

With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her sense of humor, her...

"A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the story of a wheelchair-bound scientist named Sylvia who...

Belle Teal Harper's entrance into fifth-grade in the early 1960s brings many changes and challenges as her Gran's memory begins to slip, her mom spends long hours away at work, and her class gets two new students, including an African-American boy who is caught in the middle of the fight over desegregation.

The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a caterer. But Michael's world is turned upside down when he is accused of engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' with a male student. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence....

"I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint-shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!-can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern." -Laura Lippman"There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace." -Anna QuindlenOften considered Maud Hart Lovelaces best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous volume includes...

Worried about the background of Emmie Cade, her son's enigmatic young fiancée, Claire Fairchild hires amateur sleuth Amanda Pepper to investigate some mysterious anonymous letters that hint at scandal--and worse--in Emmie's past.

When an ex-Marine becomes a high school teacher, she is assigned to a tough class of inner-city teenagers.

After being in the military service, Sam has returned to his inner city neighborhood to teach at the toughest high school in town. Frustrated, Sam hands in his resignation. But the day he does, he has to work one last detention duty with the toughest kids in the school. That day, gunmen take over the high school - using it to hide $300 million worth of cocaine they've hijacked. The paid-off local police and school security guards were supposed to...

Teacher and writer Garret Keizer shares an account of his return to the same rural Vermont high school where he taught fourteen years ago. Much has changed since then, a former student is his principal, standardized testing is the reigning god, and smoking in the boys' room has been supplanted by texting in the boys' room. More familiar are the effects of poverty, the exuberance of youth, and the staggering workload that technology has done as much...