Lessons With Love: Tales of Teaching and Learning in a Small-town High School - Tapa blanda

For anyone who's ever gone to school - as a student or a teacher - Marianne Love's warm and humorous stories from teaching at Sandpoint High School in rural northern Idaho will kindle both memories and laughs. The book chronicles not only the educator's career but also a small town's journey from a sleepy, working-class village to burgeoning resort destination.She's an English teacher, but Mrs. Love has done the math; she calculates during her career she taught some 4,500 students. And in touching all those kids, it seems, the teacher was the one who got the biggest education.

The author of three books and a retired high school teacher, Marianne Love wouldn't have lasted long in North Idaho if she didn't have a sense of humor. Her 33-year teaching career began in 1969 and lasted until retirement in 2002, all at her alma mater, Sandpoint High School, in the rural community where she was born in 1947 and still lives. Though she remained in her hometown to teach young people, Love says she feels fortunate to have hundreds of students who have provided her a window to the world. Her greatest joy is keeping in touch with former students and trumpeting their life journeys through her writing. A graduate of the University of Idaho, Love has written for many newspapers and magazines regionally and nationally. Her work currently appears regularly in the Appaloosa Journal, Spokesman-Review, The River Journal and Sandpoint Magazine. Her first two books, Pocket Girdles and Postcards from Potato(e) Land, humorous memoirs from her childhood in Sandpoint, have been through multiple printings.