Our Teacher Is Missing — Mary Francis Shura

When Miss Dixon suddenly disappears the adults don't seem to take her disappearance seriously, but Eliza knows that she must find her missing teacher.


Lost: One Teacher

Eliza is happy to finally have a teacher so much like herself -- quiet and withdrawn. Miss Dixon, whom the class nicknames “Mouse,” is the first teacher who has accepted Eliza as she is, without trying to make her bolder or more forceful, things she knows she'll never be.

But one day, Miss Dixon suddenly disappears. She doesn't show up for school, and there is no answer at her home when the principal's office tries to reach her. Eliza's classmates come up with all sorts of theories -- maybe she was in a car accident; or kidnapped; or in the FBI's witness protection program. And the adults don't seem to take her disappearance seriously.

Eliza begins to feel as if she is the only one who cares. And in her own quiet way, she knows what she must do: find her missing teacher.