10 Books About Inspirational Teachers

Anne’s teacher, Miss Stacy, has unorthodox and liberal teaching methods that others’ criticize, but she becomes a much-needed role model and mentor for Anne.

Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in a fictional city in France. She is drawn to adventure and romance as she escapes her past.

It took a very special teacher to recognize little Trisha’s dyslexia: Mr. Falker, who encourages her to overcome her reading disability.

Mr. Terupt, a new and energetic teacher, is able to deal with the varied personalities in his classroom, making it a fun place, even if he doesn’t let them get away with much.

A young man returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit and teach  a black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

August Pullman was born with a facial difference and Mr. Browne is his first teacher when he switches to a mainstream school. Mr. Browne is determined to give Auggie a good year, and is known for his many precepts.

This novel follows Professor Grady Tripp, stalled in the midst of his endless second book, and his student James Leer, a budding writer obsessed with Hollywood self-destruction and struggling with his own searching heart.

Sahara has never had a teacher like Miss Pointy, the new fifth grade teacher. Through Miss Pointy’s unusual teaching, storytelling, and quiet support, Sahara finds the courage to overcome her fears and prove which file shows her true self.

Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s who gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him.