Fred Berman

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

"Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year"--WorldCat.

Get ready to go back to school with the Pout-Pout Fish! Mr. Fish is going back to school to be a substitute teacher, and he's nervous-until he meets a little guppy who can help him!