Magical Miss Morgan
Some teachers simply seem to be magical in the way they relate to kids and make things happen in the classroom. Miss Francis Morgan is like that, a natural-born teacher with the skills to teach the future. But what happens when a teacher begins using the real power of magic and imagination to achieve reading and writing goals? Are those actually fairy wings students spotted in the heating grates? Is that a magical carving knife stuck in the door to the teacher's house? And where does that threatening note of impending evil actually come from? You have to get some kind of feel for what magic really is in order to find out.
Magical Miss Morgan is the story of small town Iowa teacher who faces the difficult task of helping sixth graders become real people, able to read and write. She needs the skills of a psychologist, police woman, negotiator, mother, and apparently, a magician to do the job a teacher actually needs to do. And on top of that she has to deal with a problem no teacher can possibly be prepared for climbing up out of the heating grate in the classroom floor. Will they love her or hate for the things that she does, and the magical way she tries to change the world for her students?
-- Michael Beyer