Bradley doesn't like school.  It's boring.  And his teacher, Mrs. Gross is crabby.  And something is terribly wrong.  It all starts when Mrs. Gross introduces a new type of math in which 6x9=54, but upside-down, 9x6=54.  Then she tell the students they don’t have to use any silent letters in their spelling lessons.  "Friend” is “frend” and “have” becomes “hav”. Bradley is dumbfounded and vows to get to the bottom of it.  He finds a book called the Truth About Teachers that tells about Apple Island, where all teachers come from.  The good teachers built an ark and came to America to set up school.  The crabby ones followed them with a sinister plan. When Mrs. Gross kidnaps the classmates and whisks them off to Apple Island, it’s up to Bradley to navigate the island’s pitfalls to save his friends and school children everywhere. 

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A Great Read-Aloud
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2020
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If you like the Phantom Tollbooth you'll like this book. The humor in it goes over the heads of some of the younger children (under grade 4) but will have the adult reading it laughing out loud, especially if they have ever worked in the field of education.

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The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers! The Thinking Cap has been stolen,
and Bradley Zimmerman, by request from the Gods of Education, must take another trip to retrieve it.
🎨Wonderful illustrations by Larry DiFiori

Apple Island is a peanut-shaped island far out in the Atlantic Ocean.  It is where all teachers come from.  Long ago, after a squabble between the good teachers of the North and the crabby teachers of the South, the good teachers left the island and sailed to America where they started the first S.C.H.O.O.Ls, Small Citizens Houses of Our Learning.

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Contents

1. The School Day Begins
2. In Class
3. The Teachers’ Lounge
4. The Field Trip
5. Apple Island
6. Teacherville
7. Crossing the Grand Playground
8. The Teacher’s Pet
9. Mr. Janitor
10. The Mines
11. Office Palace
12. Prince Apple
13. Purple Lake
14. Meeting Miss Library
15. The Truth About Teachers
16. Teacher City
17. S.C.H.O.O.L.
18. The Assembly
19. Rescue
20. Colorful Rain
21. The School Day Ends

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