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Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor,...
2) Gen Ed
Author
Series
Social fictions volume Volume 40
Publisher
Brill Sense
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novel volume 4
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, and a tense time for England's women's rights campaign--the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father's distractingly attractive young colleague. Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires...
Author
Publisher
Books Fluent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When those harrowing words ring out during a children's entertainment in Washington on the evening of April 14, 1865, a quick-thinking young chemist from England named Johnnie Holmes grabs Tad Lincoln, the 12-year-old son of the dying President, races the boy to safety and soon finds himself enlisted in the most infamous manhunt in history. One Must Tell the Bees is the untold story of young Holmes's journey from the streets of London to the White...
5) Slugfest
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From Gordon Korman, the New York Times bestselling author of Restart, comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school--for failing PE. Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School--so good, in fact, that he's already playing on the high school's JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Even though it is summer Sadiq goes to religious school four days a week to study the Quran; he and his friends find their teacher, Mr. Kassim, strict and intimidating, but when Sadiq finds out that Mr. Kassim has a injured shoulder he decides to volunteer to help with the gardening--and he convinces his friends to volunteer as well.
Author
Series
Princess Posey first grader volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When she doesn't get the lead in the class play, Posey does something mean and needs a lot of help from her tutu to admit what she did.
12) Wiggly time
Author
Series
Publisher
Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This book uses energetic body and word play to channel young children's energy and encourage them to get moving. Toddlers learn best through movement, and they need lots of physical activity every day. Use the ideas for a fun break, at transition times, or anytime."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Rise x Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The chronology and themes of Malala Yousafzai's life are presented in a masterfully succinct text, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction honors the life and work of one of the most influential activists of our time"--
14) Victim
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
"Javier Perez is a hustler from a family of hustlers. He learns from an early age how to play the game to his own advantage, how his background--murdered...
15) 9 kilometers
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
16) Camp Cannibal
Author
Series
The tribe volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Sent to his father's home after being expelled from middle school, Spencer attempts to reconnect with Sully only to find himself in a secluded camp for troubled boys, where he works to foil the Tribe's plans for expansion."--
17) True true
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Gil, a Black teen from Brooklyn, struggles to fit in at his primarily white Manhattan prep school, he wages a clandestine war against the racist administration, parents, and students, while working with other Black students to ensure their voices are finally heard.
This is not how seventeen-year-old Gil imagined beginning his senior year--on the subway dressed in a tie and khakis headed towards Manhattan instead of his old public school in Brooklyn....
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
20) Rivka's presents
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A little Jewish girl living on the Lower East Side during the flu pandemic of 1918 can't start school because her father is sick, so she makes a trade with her neighbors: chores for lessons"-- Provided by publisher.
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