Miss Nelson is Missing by: James Marshall

Miss Nelson is Missing was about a teacher by the name of Miss Nelson who supposedly did not come to school one day. This class was having classroom management problems as it is but when they found out that Miss Nelson wasn't here their was even more room for the kids to cut up. When they saw there original sweet and soft spoken teacher was not going to be there that day the kids threw spit balls and paper everywhere. This continued until Ms. Viola Swamp walks in with black outfit on which was not dressed or acted as nice as Miss Nelson was. The kids immediately straighten up and did what was told. All along the students wonder about Ms. Swamp but out of fear did not want to ask her one question because they knew she was not the playful teacher that they had. The moral of the story was all along under this black outfit was Miss Nelson and she got an real idea of how her class acts if she was out that day. Topics that can be taught within this children's book is never misbehave because you never know who is watching and you really would not like to have a harsh punishment afterwards. This is a story that is normally read to children the day before a teacher knows she is gonna be out just to increase the suspension of having that mysterious substitute that the next day.