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Jack Sheffield


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Leeds, The United Kingdom
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Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945) is a British author who wrote a series of books of fiction about the headmaster of a village school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time.

He was trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall.

He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel "Teacher, Teacher!" sold 100,000 copies ...more

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Average rating: 4.2 · 5,586 ratings · 438 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors
Teacher, Teacher! (Teacher #1)
3.93 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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Silent Night (Teacher #8)
4.21 avg rating — 619 ratings — published 1984 — 44 editions
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Mister Teacher (Teacher #2)
4.12 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Dear Teacher (Teacher #3)
4.10 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions
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Village Teacher (Teacher #4)
4.22 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions
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Educating Jack (Teacher #6)
4.23 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions
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Please Sir! (Teacher #5)
4.20 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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School's Out! (Teacher #7)
4.17 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions
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Happiest Days (Teacher #10)
4.37 avg rating — 319 ratings — 7 editions
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Star Teacher (Teacher #9)
4.23 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
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Series by Jack Sheffield

Teacher, Teacher! Mister Teacher Dear Teacher Village Teacher Please Sir! Educating Jack School's Out!
(15 books)
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“Ah’ve no”
― Jack Sheffield, Starting Over
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“taking in the moment.”
― Jack Sheffield, Back to School
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“and”
― Jack Sheffield, Starting Over
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