
Vintage bookshelf · 1970s
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
- First published
- 1977
- Reading stage
- Picture books & shared reading
Reading this with your child
In this story, an unruly class discovers that having a replacement teacher is quite a different proposition. It is a lovely choice for shared reading or lap reading, and you can encourage listeners to look for clues to the central joke.
For visual discovery, familiar read-alouds, and lap reading.
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Publication history & sources
This book is in the Publishers Weekly historical bestseller survey. Inclusion in that survey documents its cumulative popularity, but does not establish a specific sales rank within the 1970s.
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