2:45 Fever: If You Want to Know What Is Happening in Our Schools, Talk to the Substitute Teachers

by Steve Levi

132 pages, Paperback

Published March 20, 2026

About the author

Steven C. Levi is a long-term Alaskan writer and historian. He spent his first year as a teacher in the Bush and has been writing about Alaskas history and its Bush pilot heritage for three decades. He has more than 30 books in print, the most recent being a history of the Alaska Gold Rush, Boom or Bust in the Alaska Gold Fields, an Alaska Gold Rush novel CADZOW, and this book, Cowboys of the Sky, which was a selection of the Alaska Library Associations Battle of the Books. Levi lives in Anchorage with his wife, Susan.

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Reviews

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Levi provides about 50 short vignettes about substitute teacher observations in K12 schools. A number make strong points. Some of the others a a bit lackluster.