Well this is just a charming little book. Ms. Hempel is a twenty-something schoolteacher who lives a pretty normal, almost mundane, life.  She attends the school talent show.  She muses on the odd relationship between student and teacher, and sometimes teacher and teacher.  She gets engaged.  She breaks up.  She takes kids on field trips.  She wants to be the young cool teacher but she also feels that she ought to learn how to be a disciplinarian.  The book is a novel, sort of, in […]