Just moments after we posted Monday morning’s Kindle Nation Free Book Alert listings, Amazon and publishers added six brand new nonfiction titles, so we present them here without delay….
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(Ed. Note: Judging from the many emails I receive from the citizens of Kindle Nation, it’s clear to me that teachers and former teachers make up a large portion of our readers. And no matter how committed you may be as a teacher, and no matter how noble, honorable, and essential to our society your profession is, one thing that every master teacher knows, and every rookie teacher soon learns, is that you’ll need to be laugh unless you want to end up committed in unintended ways. Whether you are a teacher, a parent, or a corporate employee hanging on to your private-sector position with white knuckles, John Pearson’s wise and witty first-person take on the daily adventures of a highly educated design engineer who gets laid off and becomes a third-grade math teacher will help you laugh and make you think. It may just become the Up the Down Staircase
for the current generation of teachers. –S.W.)
for the current generation of teachers. –S.W.)
by John Pearson
4.7 out of 5 stars – 81 Reviews
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
Here’s the set-up:
Jack Woodson was a thermal design engineer for four years until he was laid off from his job. Now, as a teacher, he faces new challenges. Conference calls have been replaced with parent conferences. Product testing has given way to standardized testing. Instead of business cards, Jack now passes out report cards. The only thing that hasn’t changed noticeably is the maturity level of the people surrounding him all day.
Learn Me Good
is a hilarious first-person account, inspired by real life experiences. Through a series of emails to Fred Bommerson, his buddy who still works at Heat Pumps Unlimited, Jack chronicles a year-in-the-life of a brand new teacher. With subject lines such as “Irritable Vowel Syndrome,” “In math class, no one can hear you scream,” and “I love the smell of Lysol in the morning,” Jack writes each email with a dash of sarcasm and plenty of irreverent wit.
is a hilarious first-person account, inspired by real life experiences. Through a series of emails to Fred Bommerson, his buddy who still works at Heat Pumps Unlimited, Jack chronicles a year-in-the-life of a brand new teacher. With subject lines such as “Irritable Vowel Syndrome,” “In math class, no one can hear you scream,” and “I love the smell of Lysol in the morning,” Jack writes each email with a dash of sarcasm and plenty of irreverent wit. About the Author
John Pearson has engineering degrees from Duke University and Texas A&M; University. He worked as a project engineer in Dallas for four years before being laid off. He then joined the ranks of public school educators, teaching third-grade math and science.
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