Will Work for Apples

by Jen Mann (Editor), Kim Bongiorno (Contributor), Darlene Deluca (Contributor)

Teachers rock! Teachers have an impossibly hard job. We expect them to do everything! Educate our kids, tie their shoes, facilitate their arguments, grade their papers, sharpen their pencils, and more!

And when a teacher isn't doing all these things, they're usually taking continuing education, coming up with lesson plans, figuring out new technology, answering student and parent emails, and buying supplies for the classroom. All without anyone really noticing.

That's why we wanted to write a book that celebrates the teachers who made an impact on us. This book is a thank you to the teachers who made a difference in our lives and in our children's lives.

This book includes stories from 39 different writers and includes stories like:

How Moving to Kansas, a Couple of Off-Duty Teachers, and Lucy van Pelt Helped Me Find My Super Power

You Teach What?!?!

Being a Teacher Doesn't Make Me a Better Mother (But Being a Mother Makes Me a Better Teacher)

Homeschool Dropout: A Self-Preservation Story

Sarcasm, Fart Jokes, and Other Reasons Why I'd Never Make It as a Middle School Teacher

Dear Rachel: Letter to a First Year Teacher

Genres: Nonfiction, Essays

260 pages, Paperback

Published April 8, 2019

About the author

Jen Mann of People I Want to Punch in the Throat is the hilarious author of the New York Times best seller, People I Want to Punch in the Throat: Competitive Crafters, Drop Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges and Spending the Holidays with People I Want to Punch in the Throat. She also contributes to and publishes the New York Times best selling I Just Want to Pee Alone series of books. Her books are inspired by her immensely popular blog People I Want to Punch in the Throat. Jen lives in Kansas with the Hubs and her two children, Gomer and Adolpha - no, those aren't their real names, their real names are actually worse. Jen spends her free time crafting and volunteering with the PTO. Seriously.

You can purchase her books here: http://amzn.to/QSie2T

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bought this as a teachers gift but decided to buy a copy for myself as well. This is basically a book that thanks teachers everywhere for all the ways they support their students. It was wonderful and so sweet to read these essays that defined specific moments in time when teachers went above and beyond. Loved it and it was in fact the perfect “Thank You Gift” for a teacher!

[Courtney]

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[Marie · Rating 5 out of 5]

So hard to review so many different essays in different styles, from serious to laugh-out-loud.

I LOVED this book and read it is a sitting … and not only because our daughter is one of the writers.

[Abby · Rating 4 out of 5]

A series of essays about why teachers are great and the SO many ways this statement applies. Some touching, some humorous, and everything between. As a teacher, this was a good book to read right after the school year ended.