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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
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Language
English
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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 13
Language
English
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"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
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Language
English
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"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
Author
Series
Candy apple books. Main series volume 12
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Amy Flowers is starting seventh grade at a new school, the exclusive Allington Academy, but in order to fit in, she has to get on the right side of the League, the clique that controls the school, and its mean leader, Fiona.
7) Killing ed
Publisher
Bond Educator
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What is the Gulen Movement? And why are its members operating the largest chain of tax-payer funded charter schools in the USA? Where is the money going and how is it being used? Produced by an award-winning team of filmmakers, Killing Ed exposes the controversial Gulen Movement's investment into K-12 education in the United States. Operated with questionable academic, labor, and visa standards, this network of schools has the support that politicians,...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Jemima Kincaid is a feminist, and she thinks you should be one, too. Her private school is laden with problematic traditions, but the worst of all is prom. The guys have all the agency; the girls have to wait around for "promposals" (she's speaking heteronormatively because only the hetero kids even go). In Jemima's (very opinionated) opinion, it's positively medieval. Then Jemima is named to Senior Triumvirate, alongside superstar athlete Andy and...
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Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Ding-dong! DEAD-dong! Class is about to begin, and you don't want to be late on your first day of school! Join Tsugumi Harudori in the NOT class at Death Weapon Meister Academy, a school dedicated to training transforming Weapons like Tsugumi and the Meisters who will wield them. Many NOT (Normally Overcome Target) students aspire to join the elite EAT (Especially Advantaged Talent) class, but it may take Tsugumi some time to find her confidence--...
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Series
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English
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"The murder of a small-time drug dealer snowballs into the most complex case ever faced by Joe Gunther and his VBI team. It is said a bright and clear bomber's moon is the best asset to finding one's target. But beware what you wish for: What you can see at night can also see you. Often with dire consequences. Bomber's Moon is Archer Mayor's latest entry in the Joe Gunther series and it may just be his best yet. Two young women form the heart of this...
11) Rushmore
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
12) New kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
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Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Darwen Arkwright has spent his whole life in a tiny town in England. So when he is forced to move to Atlanta, Georgia, to live with his aunt, he knows things will be different - but what he finds there is beyond even his wildest imaginings! Darwen discovers an enchanting world through the old mirror hanging in his closet - a world that holds as many dangers as it does wonders. Scrobblers on motorbikes with nets big enough to fit a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Everybody has a weird relative. Tony Gilbert's Uncle Charlie talks about spirits and other supernatural stuff, but when he moves in with Tony and his family they have lots of fun together. When Uncle Charlie dies suddenly, Tony is devastated. Then he starts seeing Uncle Charlie everywhere! It was Uncle Charlie's dying wish that Tony attend the Penda School, where Uncle Charlie himself went as a kid. The Penda School is eerie enough without his uncle's...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©1995
Language
English
Description
After an exotic childhood spent in India, young Sara Crewe finds herself in New York, immured in Miss Minchin girls' school as her father sails off to World War I. When he is lost, a severe reversal of fortune ensues. Thanks to him, Sara knows that "All girls are princesses ... even if they wear rags or are not pretty or smart." Summoning all the qualities of a true princess, patrician and bereft Sara uses her creativity and sense of self-worth to...
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Series
Suzanna Snow mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In 1904, eleven-year-old Suzanna is delighted with her grandmother's invitation to spend time in Boston and thrilled to help her famous uncle investigate a series of arsons, but much less pleased to be enrolled her in Miss Lydia Doucette's Academy for Young Ladies.
18) If
Series
Criterion collection volume 391
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In late 1960s England, Mick Travis and his school chums trump authority at every turn at their boarding school. He finally emerges as violent savior against the draconian games of one-upmanship played by both students and the powers that be.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Like Big Little Lies with standardized testing, this addictive novel digs hard into the culture of striving parents and anxious children, exploring privilege, competition and the elusiveness of happiness. A deeply pleasurable read."-Meg Wolitzer.
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and...
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide. With this group of students who are all hiding something,...
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