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Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive…
New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s. Junior and Senior High. 2010.
Wilma and 'lois, two black girls living in North Carolina during the 1950s, are proud of their family's new Cadillac…
until they travel to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Grades 3-6. 1987.
Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid…
of Piper. And her ma's at her wits' end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities, whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Grades 4-7. 2010.
When fourteen-year-old Beth's entire family is killed in a car accident, she has to live with her aunt and uncle…
and spoiled cousin Terri in another state. Beth misses her family and friends terribly, but with help she learns to cope while never forgetting. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.
When her former best friend gets popular and leaves her behind, sixth-grader Ruth prefers to be alone, studying for the…
school spelling bee, until she finds a riddle in an old book. Grades 5-8. 2015.
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.
16-year-old Carson hates the world, stuck in a private school for kids who have repeatedly flunked out everywhere else. Then…
Carson meets Christine, who has been abandoned by her parents and struggles to get by living in a trailer. Confronted by her sadness, Carson starts to care for her, and once focused on someone other than himself, begins to notice what's going on around him. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2007.
The tales that come with growing up on a prairie farm, and then leaving it for the big city, are…
recounted. Included are such happenings as a calf getting hit by lightning, a bag of squirming kittens, and the aftershocks of war passed down through the generations. For junior high readers. 2002.
Sigrid Sugden is a Shrike, a member of one of the toughest group of girls in school. They are experts…
at blackmail, extortion and bullying their terrorized classmates. But one day, the Shrikes go too far. Sigrid realizes that their favourite victim, Prinny Murphy, is in real danger. She makes a decision that will save Prinny from danger, but will turn the Shrikes anger and bullying against their former friend who betrayed them to the authorities. For junior high and older readers. Sequel to “The present tense of Prinny Murphy”. 2013.
Sixteen-year-old Haley is in her last year of high school, and she likes to think she's just a normal girl,…
plagued with all the normal teenage problems. But then disaster strikes: she comes down with the chickenpox and no one will speak to her. Worse still, her hippie dad is in trouble with the law. Junior and senior high readers. 2003.
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each…
relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments. Followed by "Return of the homework machine". Grades 4-7. 2007.
At twelve, Tommy Frazer suddenly finds himself with a new mom, a new house, and a new school. In hopes…
of making friends, he volunteers to be on the decoration committee for the school dance. Everything is going just fine until Tommy has to make a trip to the art room on the third floor where he begins hearing voices. Sequel to "Deep Trouble II". Followed by "Werewolf Skin". Grades 4-7. c1997. (Goosebumps ; 59)
Jane, half Indian and half white, has just had a baby at 14 and is convinced that she won't be…
popular or successful at school anymore. She finds unexpected support from other students and her family, in particular her Native American grandmother, Teh, who tells her that she comes from a long line of strong mothers. She also discovers that Destiny, her baby, is well named - she transforms the lives of all the people she touches, especially her mother. Based on the true story of the Canadian author's half-Indian daughter. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2003.
Dating a popular boy and adhering to every rule ever written, a high school senior at an elite Vermont boarding…
school begins to shed her good girl identity after an angry incident with her distant father. Some strong language. For senior high students. 2011.
Chubby fifteen-year-old Virginia of New York City is pressured by her family to look better. Helped by her best friend,…
her first boyfriend, and a teacher, she overcomes her insecurities and asserts her personality. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2003.
Benjie, the one they call "mouse", is threatened by the toughest boy in the school, Marv Hammerman. Benjie and friend…
Ezzie have often worked out solutions to problems such as what to do when attacked by an octopus, or when caught in quicksand. But how are they to deal with the biggest emergency of all? For junior high readers. 1976.
Through brisk, clear diary entries, LaToya Hunter chronicles her life during seventh grade, her first year in junior high. Though…
she excels in school, she finds it boring and frustrating. During the year Latoya experiences the birth of her nephew, her brother's wedding, a new interest in boys, clashes with her mother, new-found faith in God, a neighborhood murder, and a visit with relatives in Jamaica. Grades 6-9. 1992.
Jimmy Stewart went to school at thirteen and he was sure he wasn't going to like it. First he got…
into trouble with the masters and then with the boys. Big trouble. Because Jimmy tangled with Fagso Brown, the tough gang leader who terrorised the school with his 'protection racket'. Jimmy took lessons in judo - to be ready for the big clash when it came. Grades 5-8. 1968.
When Will Halpin transfers from his all-deaf school into a mainstream Pennsylvania high school, he faces discrimination and bullying, but…
still manages to solve a mystery surrounding the death of a popular football player in his class. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2010.
The Chalet School is on the move again. After a happy two terms in Guernsey, the threat from enemy attack…
is so great that the school must transfer to the mainland. Luckily, Plas Howell in Armishire proves an ideal location, even though Gwensi Howell bitterly resents this upset into her previously spoiled life. Joey is not far away, and able to give help when needed. This is very much a Chalet School story, but we can also not forget the War, and those members of the school who had to be left behind in Nazi occupied Europe. Sequel to "The Chalet School in Exile"; followed by "The Highland Twins at the Chalet School". Grades 4-7. First published 1941, 2010. (Chalet School series ; 15)