A Mohawk Valley teacher is paying tribute to a former student by the name of Sara Anne Wood.

Wood was abducted in Sauquoit back in August 1993. Twenty-five years after her disappearance, her sixth grade teacher Nancy Troast Waldeck took her fight with anxiety and depression to a book called "Rise Above: 8 Portraits of Life Transformation."

On Monday, Waldeck — one of eight authors of the book — donated the proceeds of the books to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Utica.

“[Sara] was just an all-around good kid,” said Waldeck. “She just kept our classroom alive.”

A check of $250 was donated to the Center to help with education and poster prevention, something publisher Kelli Corasanti Watson speaks highly of.

“If we put out a poster on a missing child, it would cost a quarter. So that is how many posters it would make with this $250,” said Watson. “And it only takes one person to see one poster to make a difference.”