LouAnne Johnson

Muchacho
Meet Eddie Corazon, a 16-year-old former straight-A student turned juvenile delinquent. Eddie is smart, funny, and angry at being treated like a "future felon" by the school system. If you liked Dangerous Minds, you'll LOVE Muchacho!

This book is the full-length novel originally published as the novella Alternative Ed (and Yo Eddie).

TEACHING OUTSIDE THE BOX
Advice for new and experienced teachers on classroom management, discipline, motivation, and morale. Practical suggestions for arranging your room, talking to students, avoiding the misbehavior cycle, and making school a place where students learn and teachers teach. Includes Q&A from teachers, letters from students, tips for developing and grading portfolio assignments, and step-by-step instructions for introducing Shakespeare to reluctant readers.

Dangerous Minds
(My Posse Don't Do Homework)
My Posse was retitled Dangerous Minds in 1995 after the movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Because I wasn't involved in writing the script, the movie is quite different from the book. The book describes real events and real students -- and I may be biased, but I think it's better than the movie.

Queen of Education
This book really isn't Rules for Making Schools Work -- it's Ranting and Raving About Our Schools, a collection of essays, including the complete Queen of Education essay that was published in EdWeek and Teacher magazines, along with chapters on Scotopic Sensitivity, EFAs and the brain, teacher Q&A, tips for administrators who want to keep their new teachers, Down with Detention, letters from students, and a very special Open Letter to Teachers.

The Girls in the Back of the Class
Meet more students who overcame incredible challenges and emerged as successful high school graduates. Read about "My Spanish Babies," lots of student journals, and find out what really happened to Emilio. In this book, my junior class reads The Merchant of Venice -- then they rewrite and perform the play as The Lonely Tycoon.

Currently out of print.

Making Waves: a woman in this man's navy
Making Waves is out of print and outdated. But I am writing a YA novel about a young girl who joins the navy -- and she sounds a lot like me when I was young. Stay tuned.....I don't have a title or a publisher yet.