Title: Teacher's Pet
Author: Richie Tankersley Cusick
Published: 1994
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Summary:
Kate gets more than she bargained for when she goes on a week-long writing conference. First her teacher goes missing then someone tries to frighten her in the woods and someone, who isn't afraid to kill, doesn't like Kate being the teacher's pet. (fantasticfiction.co.uk)
It's one thing to be smart. It's quite another to be a brown-noser. This is what it gets you. I get it. It's a cautionary tale.