When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school kids into zombies, several teachers band together to stop the killer children.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and lover. She has instead become the "woman upstairs, " a reliable friend and neighbor always on the fringe of others' achievements. Then into her life arrives the glamorous and cosmopolitan Shahids-her new student Reza Shahid, a child who enchants as if from a fairy tale, and his parents: Skandar, a dashing Lebanese...

"October, 1944. It has been a challenging season for Elderberry's favorite first grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick. A beloved former student was recently killed in the war, her brother has become distant, and her friend Odessa, the cook at Pheobe's rooming house, has taken a leave of absence to care for a relative. Still, when Dimple's librarian friend, Virginia, finds a young woman, Dora, on the library porch looking for a place to spend the...

A year ago, ex-Delta Force operator Steven Roark left the rigors of combat behind to run fishing charters in Hope Harbor, decompress, and talk some sense into his kid brother. But making peace with his past is more challenging than he expected. First-grade teacher Holly Miller's low-profile existence is disrupted when she is recruited to advocate for a cause that's dear to her heart. When she solicits Steven's assistance, sparks fly-- especially after...

Join Benjamin, Todd, Kathy, and their friends in a world where sometimes the students are smarter than their teachers, the sub has a third ear on the top of her head, and the classrooms are built one on top of another in a school thirty stories high!

"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...

"With the country in the midst of World War II, you can be sure the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, will pull together to find a missing child. And you can be equally certain that first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, will be in the search party--especially since Peggy Ashcroft is one of her students. Miss Dimple carves out a search path all her own and once again, the sharp-as-a-tack teacher is right on point. But she finds Peggy too sick...

As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his motherś village, the beautiful and touching story of his parentś courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his motherś village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.