Happy Tuesday! It’s that time of year again when kiddos go back to school & teachers are once again pouring their hearts into their classrooms full of young minds. To celebrate today on Top Ten Tuesday, I’m looking at more teachers in fiction. Specifically, teachers in books I’ve read since the last post I did on the subject (which was six years ago so it’s time for an update lol)
I loved being a student, and I hope I’ll always love learning. That’s one reason I love reading fiction so much – it teaches me all kinds of things that I didn’t learn in school. History was the subject I most enjoyed (not English, like everyone guesses lol) and other than the Bible it’s still my favorite thing to study.
Confession: I did not love being a schoolteacher (though I did love my students). It was so discouraging to have earned this degree in education – one of the most difficult undergrad majors at my college – and then realize in the ‘real world’ that it was not what I wanted to do long-term. I finally found my niche in teaching English as a second/other language to adult internationals until my Lyme Disease made it impossible to keep up that schedule.
Anyhoo…. without further ado, let’s look at some more teachers in fiction that I’ve enjoyed meeting on the pages!
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Leah Montgomery
Let It Be Me by Becky Wade
Emma Mullins
His Christmas Wish by Allie Pleiter
Harrison Wells
The Duke’s Refuge by Lorri Dudley
Leilah Anderson
All the Moore by Toni Shiloh
Ada Rupp
The Amish Teacher’s Gift by Rachel J. Good
Jonathan Taylor
Laurel’s Dream by Pepper Basham
Hannah Rawlings
Always the One by Tara Randel
Brielle Adebayo
In Search of a Prince by Toni Shiloh
Molly Osbourne
Molly by Sarah Monzon
Wendy Schwartz
“Wendy’s Twenty Reasons” by Shelley Shepard Gray
An Amish Schoolroom
And here are some more books with teacher characters
that I haven’t read yet but want to ASAP!
What about you? Are there more teachers in fiction that you’ve recently enjoyed meeting in the pages of a book? What was your fave subject in school?
Thanks for listing two of mine!! And you should absolutely read Nicole Deese’s!!
i knooooow – i have no excuse except time lol
Nice list and spin on this week’s School freebie prompt. Me too I loved being a student. That’s why I enjoyed this TTT a lot. Here is my spin on this week’s TTT: https://herseriallife.com/top-10-books-set-in-college-academia/
Have a great week 🙂
ooo i love books set in college – yay!
Teaching English as a second language seems like such a cool job! It’s too bad you’re not able to do it anymore.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-microhistory-books-worth-reading
thanks, Lydia! ooo the title of your post intrigues me! Heading over to look 🙂
My favorite subject was history!!! I loved reading about times past. My mother would plan trips for our annual vacation to my father’s family in Pennsylvania. We went to the coolest places, like Gettysburg and D.C. Mount Vernon, etc.
I’ve read some of your selections and four that you want to read: Nicole Deese, Iren3 Hannon, Jennifer Deible and Rachel Fordham. They were great!
those trips sound like so much fun!
I love your focus on today’s prompt! You MUST move Nicole D’s up to your more immediate list!! I like some of the others as well, but that was my favorite from what you listed under your not yet read, In Search of a Prince was my favorite from the top list of the ones I’ve read. Here’s my post today: https://cindysbookcorner.blogspot.com/2022/08/top-ten-tuesday-just-say-no-to.html
I knooooooow – I really, really need to
I have read several of these. Thank you for sharing. Blessings
yay! It’s always nice to have already read a bunch on someone’s list so your TBR list doesn’t get more overwhelmed lol
Awesome list! I love teachers in fiction.
I do too!
Love this topic! I would add Before I Called You Mine by Nicole Deese and The Moonlight School by Suzanne Woods Fisher.
yes!! I still need to read both of those.