When a retired teacher substitutes as a summer camp teacher, she learns not to wear ballet slippers for hiking or fishing.

When the principal tells first grade teacher Mrs. Belle that she must retire, she and her students wonder how they will keep in touch.

On a cruise around the world, a retirement present from her friends, Mrs. Belle dances the hula in Hawaii, the conga in Brazil, the highland fling in Scotland, the Mexican hat dance in Acapulco, and the limbo in Trinidad.

"Mrs. Belle wins a contest and stars in the biographical film 'Everybody's Favorite Teacher', filmed in her home town"--

"Mrs. Belle has lost her ballet slippers, and the entire town must join forces to help her find them"--

In the third book of The Teacher Who Would Not Retire Series, Mrs. Belle delights her readers with humorious adventures, while wearing her colorful ballet slippers. Through her telescope, Mrs. Belle sights an unknown object in the sky, which turns out to be a new planet. NOW, the fun begins...

Bowen asks not the usual question--how well are Muslims integrating in France?--but, rather, how do French Muslims think about Islam? In particular, Bowen examines how French Muslims are fashioning new Islamic institutions and developing new ways of reasoning and teaching. He looks at some of the quite distinct ways in which mosques have connected with broader social and political forces, how Islamic educational entrepreneurs have fashioned niches for new forms of schooling, and how major Islamic public actors have set out a specifically French approach to religious norms. --from publisher description.