Teach Me (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Carolina "Nine" Livingston: An 18 year old high school student who falls in love with her English teacher.
• Richard Mann: The English teacher who becomes involved with one of his students.
• Schuyler: Carolina's best friend.
• Wilkie Collins: Nines car
• Alicia: Mr. Manns wife
• Mr. Sprunk: Alicias father
• Mr. Pendergraff: Add a description of this character.
• Emily Dickinson: Famous poet
• Vince
• Ricky: Mr. Mann
• Christy
• Mr. Atkinson
• Ms. Larimore
• Ms. Foster

Quotes edit see section history

• “A dying spacecraft falling at ten thousand miles per hour loses bits of itself on the way. Some parts are built to endure almost anything. Others are big-time fragile. If the fire of reentry, five thousand degrees, gets to the fragile parts, they warp, melt, vaporize. Sometimes instantly. Soon there's no recognizable center to the craft; it's all flying apart on various trajectories.”

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• “Can you really make a new life just by throwing out all the junk from your old one?”

  Nine

• “I have a theory: small talk and television are killing Western Civilization. I refuse to take part in the slaughter.”

  Nine

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• HOPE is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all

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• “I didn’t mean to take it this far.” I lift my blurry eyes. “That still means you meant to take it.”

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• Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

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• To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.

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• BECAUSE I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

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• Good-by to the life I used to live, And the world I used to know; And kiss the hills for me, just once; Now I am ready to go!

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• Love must be an electromagnetic field that attracts like particles. Then I think of it—just as there is more than one kind of Nothing, there’s more than one kind of Love, too. I’ve always had the kind that was there before there was anything. Now I have the kind that is there after everything else is gone.

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• “You remember, I’m sure, there are several different types of Nothing,” he says. “There’s the Nothing that is pure zero and the Nothing that is a negation. One is just before the birth of everything, the Nothing of not having been born. The other is the Nothing after the death of everything, the Nothing that is beyond all existence.” “Charles S. Pierce, Logic of Events.”

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• “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain.”

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• The nebula is rippling, pulsing, enormous, alive. A gigantic red heart twenty trillion miles wide. I miss him with that kind of ache.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Alabama
• New Wave

First Sentence edit see section history

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Student-Teacher Relationship: Describe this theme.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. R. A. Nelson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Best of 2005, Teenreads.com (2005)
• Newcomer's Pick 2005, Horn Book (2005)
• Fall 2005 Kids' Pick, BookSense (2005)
• New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 2006 (2006)
• 2005 Best Teen Novel, Miami Herald (2005)
• 2006 Thumb's Up! Top Twenty, Michigan Library Association (2006)
• Best Young Adult Literature of 2005, Iowa City School District (2005)
• 2005 Great Books, Baltimore County Public Library (2005)
• Nominated for YALSA 2006 Best Books for Young Adults (2006)

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Teens › Social Issues › Dating & Intimacy › Fiction
• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction

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