THIRTEEN WAYS TO SINK A SUB

New York, NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1982. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Linda Strauss Edwards (Illustrator). EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Text/As New. Bi-color boards/NF. DJ/NF; under library mylar. Clever ways to bring substitute teachers to their knees devised by spirited fourth-graders. Out of the mouth of babes: "You sink a sub when you make her cry ... You don't start out to do it. It just happens when a sub finds out it's the kids who are in control. Grown-ups sometimes can't take that. When they can't, usually they're sunk." The class of 4B, knowing they were in store for a substitute teacher, fall immediately into two camps along gender lines. It was boys against girls (replete with horrible punishment for the the losers) to see which camp would win. Group dynamics with fun, humour and ingenuity. Strong copy.