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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Elle Campbell is a non-binary seventh-grader who is excited their hero non-binary star Nuri Grena is coming to their town for a book signing--it was Nuri's story that inspired Elle to declare themselves and they are not about to let detention stop them and their friends from meeting Nuri.
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Series
Creatures and teachers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
While in Saturday detention, Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira must work together to survive when unspeakable horrors emerge from the shadows and the evil grows stronger by the minute.
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Series
Big Nate volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
With a new crush, and the annual Mud Bowl coming up, can Nate make a good impression without slipping up? With more detentions than he can count, Nate is in DEEP in Big Nate Blasts Off! When Nate submits a mocking cartoon of Randy Betancourt - winner of PS 38's 'most likely to mop the floor with someone else's face' award - to the school paper, tensions between the two are on the rise. After Randy jumps Nate the boys are caught in a fight by the Principle...
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Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance...
8) Ballewiena
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
Dotty the dachshund knows she was born to dance ballet. When told to sit, she does a plié. Asked to stay, she does an assemblé. Fed up with Dotty’s lack of discipline, Mrs. Austere sends her to the Canine School of Obedience, but Dotty just can’t seem to learn. Heartbroken, the little dog flees to the park―where an unexpected new friend is waiting. Could he know the secret to helping Dotty dance out her dreams with her own kind of discipline?...
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Series
Weenies short story collections volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The appearance of a mysterious new girl in school stops her classmates cold. Black Friday shopping gets out of control for a mother and daughter. And stands full of screaming and shouting Bleacher Weenies are about to make the ultimate sacrifice"--Provided by publisher.
11) King Lear
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theatre of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. Here is a modern version of one of his most brilliantly realized tragedies, this powerful tale of the agin King Lear, his too-rash decisions, and his betrayal at the hands of his own family becomes a powerful, unforgettable tale for today's reader. Modern English...
12) Street pharm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old African-American drug dealer, Ty Johnson, takes over his father's business and struggles to make sense of his life when competition from out of town threatens him and those who are close to him.
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Series
Way of the warrior kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Marc makes a new friend in the neighborhood who also wants to be a Warrior Kid, so he looks to Uncle Jake for help in creating lessons in "How to Be a Warrior Kid."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Jin Wang starts at a new school where he's the only Chinese-American student. When a boy from Taiwan joins his class, Jin doesn't want to be associated with an FOB like him. Jin just wants to be an all-American boy, because he's in love with an all-American girl. Danny is an all-American boy: great at basketball, popular with the girls. But his obnoxious Chinese cousin Chin-Kee's annual visit is such a disaster that it ruins Danny's reputation at...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Joe joins his school's basketball team, but finds that the players are disorganized and lacking in discipline, so he sets out to use the skills he has learned in kung fu to bring the other players together as a functioning team.
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Series
Hidden world of Changers volume 6
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fiona, Mack, Gabriella, and Darren are Changers, a magical line of shapeshifters that can transform into mythological creatures, from werewolves and selkies to lightning birds and spirit foxes. The Changers are reeling from the attack at Wyndemere Academy. Their new enemy, Sakura Hiyamoto, is a kitsune with a unique memory-eating ability, and she's after Mack. Mack doesn't remember much about fighting Sakura at Wyndemere, a fact which worries the...
18) Hitler Youth
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
The recruitment of children into a political organization and ideology reached its boldest embodiment in the Hitler Youth, founded in 1933. Michael Kater traces the history of Hitler Youth, examining the means, degree, and impact of conversation, and the subsequent fate of young recruits.