Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.

Loving their gifted teacher, three boys are dismayed when she falls ill and leaves for the rest of the school year, a situation that compels them to share their stories while cutting class and journeying across town together on a fateful day.

Describes the education, tasks, tools, and role in society of teachers.

When their teacher has to go away for a week, the kids in room 207 plan to "really act up."

Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.

"When Kitty learns that her teacher is home sick from school one morning, she gets worried. ... Who will sing songs with the class? Who will help her zip up her jacket? ... It's up to Kitty to show her substitute teacher the way! But will Mr. Omar be able to keep up?"--Book jacket.

Explains what a teacher is and what their responsibilities are.

A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla.

When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.

When the origami pig that Song Lee made for her grandmother is seized by a substitute teacher, the usually well-behaved third-grader breaks a classroom rule to rescue it from the "June box."