Patricia Polacco

Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.

Three goats visit a fair but run home after they seem to encounter a troll.

At first, Trisha loves school, but her difficulty learning to read makes her feel dumb, until, in the fifth grade, a new teacher helps her understand and overcome her problem.

Trisha wants to write something that will please her demanding writing teacher, who is rumored to have never given a student an A.