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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.
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English
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With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
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Series
Clue mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"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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Series
Clue mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board game CLUE! After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew--killing one of their own--the students at Blackbrook Academy are just trying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its...
Series
School of secrets volume 4
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In order to prove herself a warrior, Lonnie takes her friends on a trip to the Imperial City to retrieve a sword that belonged to her mother, Mulan.
Series
School of secrets volume 5
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Carlos joins Evie and Jane for the Auradon Prep Scavenger Hunt, he decides to do whatever it takes to lead them to victory--even tap into his new magical ability.
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"What if you and your friends were forced to leave the place where you grew up and sent to a prep school where everyone hated your guts? What if your Mom was literally the most evil woman ever and expected you to help her destroy everybody there? What if you met someone kind of amazing ... and it changed everything? Life isn't easy for Mal, but it's always exciting"--Page 4 of cover.
9) Foul is fair
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Elle and her friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Elle's sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew's Prep party. The night the golden boys choose Elle as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Elle transfers to St. Andrew's. She plots to destroy each...
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English
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"Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan,...
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Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the newest addition to the line of hit Descendants titles. Like Mal's Spell Book, this compelling books will build upon the world, mythology, and magic of the Descendants franchise.
"Have you ever wanted something so badly you'd go to any length to get it? Well, I did. This is my story-about an almost princess who wanted to be a queen...and how things got wild, warped, and downright wicked. - Audrey"--Back cover.
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English
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Willa Parker, 646th and least popular resident of What Cheer, Iowa, is headed east to start a new life. Did she choose this new life? No, because that would be too easy -- and nothing in Willa's life is easy. It's her famous genius mother's idea to send her to ultra-expensive, ultra-exclusive Pembroke Prep, and it's only the strength of her name that got Willa accepted in the first place. But Willa has no intentions of fitting in at Pembroke. She's...
13) Honor code
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Sam contacts a reporter, hoping to expose a fellow student at elite Edwards Academy for rape, but the reporter tells her parents and soon, she is facing him in court.
Life at the elite Edwards Academy means following the honor code to the letter. As she dreams of getting into Harvard one day, Sam Barker is willing to do anything to fit in and excel at the private high school. Even if that means enduring hazing, signing up for a sport...
14) Renegade flight
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Series
Rebelwing volume 2
Language
English
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"Viola Park's life is over. She's gone from planning her future as a pilot-in-training to resigning herself to life on the ground. And it's all because she made one tiny, not-altogether-legal maneuver on the prestigious GAN Academy's entrance exam. It's bad enough that she didn't get into the Academy, but getting caught cheating? It's probably the worst thing Vi could imagine. Still, there are perks that come with Vi's family legacy at the school,...
Series
School of secrets volume 3
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When strange things threaten the school's Spirit Weekend, Ally, the daughter of Alice in Wonderland, she is determined to find who is behind the madness.
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