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Ms. Hempel Chronicles (2008)

by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0151014965 (ISBN13: 9780151014965)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: A very sweet collection of stories about Ms. Hempel, seventh grade English teacher. Being a seventh grade English teacher myself, it was lovely to find a piece of fiction that in many ways accurately and endearingly illuminates the joys, anxieties and other subtleties of this work. Ms. Hempel is charming….she is relatively young and early on in her career, learning as she goes, finding shortcuts to help her with grading overload, dealing with unexpected situations with students, loving and caring about them, and finding her way in her personal life as well. There were a few things she said and did when dealing with students that I don't think I would ever do, but on the whole, she was very real and her stories beautifully told. I highly recommend to teachers everyw... morehere.
review 2: Rarely do I come across a book that elicits so little reaction in me. I neither liked nor disliked it. It muddled along, pleasantly if a bit blandly, and then it was over.The titular ms. Hempel wrestles with ambivalence about the direction her life is going in and the kids she teaches. It has some nice observations about what teaching 13-yr-olds must be like, harrowing and fulfilling in equal measure.Having said that, mostly what comes to mind is faint praise, which is likely worse than no praise at all. less

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