Teach Me
Teach Me invites readers inside an experience that fascinates everyone—an affair between a teacher and student—and gives an up-close-and-personal answer to the question: How does this happen? The hardcover edition of Teach Me was a Booksense Fall 2006 Kid’s Pick, a TeenReads.com Best Book of...
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Teach Me invites readers inside an experience that fascinates everyone—an affair between a teacher and student—and gives an up-close-and-personal answer to the question: How does this happen? The hardcover edition of Teach Me was a Booksense Fall 2006 Kid’s Pick, a TeenReads.com Best Book of 2005, and a selection for the 2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781595140852 (1595140859)
ASIN: 1595140859
Publish date: March 22nd 2007
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Love,
Academic,
School,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
High School
While this book uses a familiar trope (teacher and student affair), this book stands out with its unusual structure (instead of chapters, Nelson uses sections with poetic titles) and fluid prose. There are times when almost esoteric vocabulary causes confusion, and when metaphors fall flat (an apart...
Didn't like it? Didn't like it? I really didn't like this book. After Caroline's teacher-lover, Mr. Mann, ends their relationship, she goes freaking crazy. Like fixing-his-home, spreading-jelly-on-his-bedsheets, stalking-his-honeymoon, looking-through-his-balcony, nearly-shooting-him crazy.CRAZY.I e...
2.5 stars
This will either be heartbreaking or disgusting or both, but I'm curious.
Hallucinatory, intense, almost otherworldly. I had inappropriate relationships with teachers, sure, but nothing at all like Nine's. But oh, how brilliantly Nelson captures those feelings. I'm reeling a little, from reading and revisiting all at the same time.Nine's a bright girl, too smart to fall i...
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