In the year 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves home to teach school in the Smoky Mountains. There she came to know and love the wild mountain people with their fierce pride, dark superstitions, their terrible poverty, and their yearning for beauty and truth. Christy found her faith severely challenged in these primitive surroundings; and confronted with two young men of unique strength and needs, she found her own growing yearnings...

The new gymnastics teacher likes cats, brooms, and funny rhymes, that sound awfully close to spells. Could Miss Brewbaker really be a witch?

"Wells Whitaker was once golf's hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his 'promising' career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one remaining supporter. No matter how bad he plays, the beautiful, sunny redhead is always on the sidelines. He curses, she cheers. He scowls, she smiles. But when Wells quits in a blaze of glory and his fangirl finally goes home, he knows he made the greatest mistake of his life....

The boys and girls in the fourth grade devise a contest to "sink their substitute teacher by making her cry.

It's almost summer vacation and the students in room 2B are having trouble concentrating on their butterfly project, until a new teacher comes to supervise the Suspension Room and Harry is sent there as punishment for unruly behavior.

"Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in second grade, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up the class during a spelling bee, he sees the tiniest hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, Jake has a new mission in life: to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh!"--Cover.

"Tessa Taylor arrives in 1870s Upper Peninsula, Michigan, planning to serve as a new teacher to the town. Much to her dismay, however, she immediately learns that there was a mistake, that the town had requested a male teacher. Percival Updegraff, superintendent and chief mine clerk, says she can stay through winter since they won't be able to locate a new teacher before then, and Tessa can't help but say she is in his debt. Little does she know that...

It's Hearts and Hooves Day! The Cutie Mark Crusaders go on a mission to find a special valentine for their teacher, but their love potion spell misfires! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.