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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing teaches all the wrong lessons in her latest sneaky thriller about a calculating teacher in a privileged private school who knows he has the power to make or break your kid's future...and he uses it.... Teddy Crutcher has just won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn't be more proud--though no one has seen her in a while. But Teddy...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
St. Trinian's is an all-girls school run by the quirky headmistress Ms. Camilla Fritton. When the newly appointed minister of education tries to take them down, the girls have no choice but to rise to the occasion, with the help of Head Girl Kelly, and artful dodger Flash Harry, to save the school from bankruptcy. Includes featurette, bloopers, music video, and deleted scenes.
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 Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a previously happy group of friends and parents that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for gifted children opens...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a "Technicolor simulacrum of American History" right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country. If...
6) Rushmore
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
7) Medusa
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Ava Baldwin has always tried to keep her anger in check, just like her mom taught her. But when know-it-all classmate Owen King tries to speak over her yet again, Ava explodes . . . and Owen freezes, becoming totally unresponsive. Although Owen recovers, Ava's parents whisk her off to her mother’s alma mater, the Accademia del Forte, a mysterious international boarding school in Venice. There, Ava and her brother, Jax, discover that the Olympian...
9) School trip
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft is back with the newest adventures of Jordan, Drew, Liam, and all the characters that fans first met in New Kid, winner of the Newbery Award and the Coretta Scott King Author Award! In this full-color contemporary graphic novel, the gang from Riverdale Academy Day is heading to Paris, for an international education like you’ve never seen before … Jordan, Drew, Liam, Maury, and their friends from...
10) Starling
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Mason Starling, a champion fencer at Gosforth Academy, finds her school overrun with terrifying creatures after a mysterious, ferocious storm falls on Manhattan and the mysterious stranger who saves her life becomes her only ally as they work together to discover his past and learn of Mason's family's dark allegiance to ancient Norse gods.
11) The Pack
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Attending a boarding school for girls with animal powers, new girl Sadie joins the Pack—a group of 'it' girls—and is consumed by social drama until someone starts to threaten them in an attempt to tear the Pack apart"--
Author
Series
Liar's society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she’s excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she’s never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she’ll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack’s wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre....
Author
Series
Fence (Graphic novel) volume 1
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a fencing champion, gets his chance to prove himself in the sport when he is accepted to an elite private school, but he must compete against his annoying roommate and his half brother.
"Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his place alongside fencing legends like the dad he never knew, but things get more complicated when he’s up against his golden-boy half-brother,...
14) Made glorious
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''In a vicious, delicious contemporary novel inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III, thelauded author of The Family Fortuna lifts the curtain on a high school thespian who'll stop at nothing to land the lead. Rory is an antihero for the ages. Like Shakespeare's Richard III, she confides in her audience, telling us exactly the lengths she'll go to to secure the leading role in Bosworth Academy's senior musical, confessing without shame that she is...
15) A kid like Jake
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their son begins to display gender-nonconforming behavior in preschool, his parents must figure out how to do what's right for him as they begin navigating New York City's competitive private school system.
A Brooklyn couple has always known that their four-year-old son is more interested in fairy tale princesses than toy cars. But when his preschool director points out that his gender-nonconforming play may be more than a phase, the couple...
16) Tender beasts
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as the main suspect, she takes it upon herself to discover the real killer--and uncovers a slew of dark family secrets in the process.
''After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother's name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades. Sunny Behre has...
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