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| 3 | ''My Teacher Sleeps in School'' is a children's picture book authored by Leatie Weiss. It takes place in a [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals world filled with anthropomorphic elephants]] and is about a girl, Mollie, who thinks her teacher, Mrs. Marsh, lives in the elementary school. She, along with Gary, Lisa, and Jason, try to find clues of such thing, until Mrs. Marsh {{reveal}}s the [[TeachersOutOfSchool ultimate truth]]. |
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| 6 | !''My Teacher Sleeps in School'' contains examples of: |
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| 8 | * CoolTeacher: Mrs. Marsh. [[spoiler:She even takes her class on a field trip to her house.]] |
| 9 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: The four elephants find two bags filled with utensils and cake supplies. [[spoiler:They turn out to be for the surprise party at the end of the field trip.]] |
| 10 | * FurryReminder: The elephants use their long trunks to pick up items. |
| 11 | * GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: Lisa decides to add a teddy bear into the gift for Mrs. Marsh. |
| 12 | * HandWave: InUniverse. Jason disputes Mollie's theory that Mrs. Marsh uses the toy stoves to cook food, by saying that they're toys. Mollie rebuts by saying that "teachers can do anything". |
| 13 | * IKnewThereWasSomethingAboutYou: [[spoiler:Gary responds that teachers don't sleep in school. At the party, which takes place after the field trip to Mrs. Marsh's house, he boasts that he was right about Mrs. Marsh being a normal teacher.]] |
| 14 | * NonGivingUpSchoolGuy: What the kids think Mrs. Marsh is, in a LighterAndSofter way. |
| 15 | * OpenSecret: Gary tries to keep the "teacher sleeps in school" theory a secret, but the entire class ends up knowing. |
| 16 | * PinkMeansFeminine: Mollie wears a pink dress and pink bows. |
| 17 | * TheReveal: [[spoiler:Mrs. Marsh is a normal adult who lives at a house and has family, like any other person.]] |
| 18 | * TeachersOutOfSchool: The entire book is based around a child's belief that her teacher lives at school. [[spoiler:Like always, it turns out to be the opposite.]] |
| 19 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Mollie and Lisa wear bows and skirts, while Gary dons a baseball cap. |
| 20 | * WorldOfFunnyAnimals: But the only FunnyAnimal inhabitants are anthropomorphic elephants! |
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