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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
From the master storyteller, a suspenseful, lyrical account of one man's search for the truth behind an inexplicable death. For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if by a line drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together due to an inexplicable death, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
In the late 1980s, for reasons even she has difficulty pinpointing, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves her middle-class, close-knit, ribald family in Indiana and enrolls at Ault, an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of, and ultimately a participant in, their rituals and mores, although, as a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider. By the...
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Language
English
Description
"Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger has come to Goode, and this...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is...
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Language
English
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Accepting a teaching job at his former school in the wake of a failed writing career, Matthias guiltily reflects on his role in the disappearance of a classmate 10 years earlier and becomes compelled to learn the young man's fate, a quest that helps him understand his own place in his privileged world.
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Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
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"From the outside, Windham-Farnswood Academy is beautiful, prestigious, historic--the perfect place for girls to prep for college. But every student knows that all is not as it seems. There is a spirit who haunts the old senior dorm. She is called the Winter Girl because she comes knocking each January. For Haley, the timing couldn't be worse. This month marks the one-year anniversary of the death of her ex-best friend, Taylor. When a disturbing video...
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Language
English
Description
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love, tormented, funny, and affecting, and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases," The World...
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Language
English
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Lindsey Gillett is missing. And she's not the first girl at Waverly Prep to vanish without a trace. To help cope with the tragedy, new history teacher Aubrey LeRoux organizes a small student investigation team. But when the members start turning up dead across campus, Aubrey suspects there's more going on than anyone is willing to admit. The murdered students all had something in common with Lindsey. They shared a secret. And what they uncovered could...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
It's 1968. The prestigious but cash-strapped Goode School in the town of Cape Wilde is run by its aging, philandering headmaster, Goddard Byrd. With Cape Wilde engulfed by the social and political storms of integration, coeducation and the sexual revolution, Goddard has confidently promised coeducation "over my dead body." And then, through a clerical error, the Goode School admits its first female student: Carole Faust, a brilliant, intractable fifteen-year-old...
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Series
How we fall apart volume 01
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nancy Luo, Krystal Choi, Akil Patel, and Alexander Lin, juniors at Manhattan's elite Sinclair Prep, are forced to confront their secrets after Jamie Ruan, once their closest friend, is found dead.--Provided by Publisher.
Jamie Ruan is the queen bee of Sinclair Prep. Until one day, she's dead. The Proctor, an anonymous poster on the school media app, points the finger at Jamie's friends. Akil Patel is the school's track star-- and he's running from...
13) Elliot Allagash
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Language
English
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Genial high school loser Seymour gets a life-changing makeover after meeting Elliot, a fabulously wealthy malcontent who has transferred to Seymour's Manhattan private school. Elliot's lessons on the power of money and the fine art of popularity are given in exchange for chubby Seymour's agreement to do whatever Elliot tells him to do, and, sure enough, Seymour transforms from consummate outsider to a Harvard-bound, straight-A class president. But...
14) Prodigy
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Language
English
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A thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?
In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education - and developmental drug regiment -available.
Stansbury graduates - physically and mentally - are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go on...
15) 16 & pregnant
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Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
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Description
"Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High-- until she gets pregnant. Having a baby at sixteen was definitely not part of the plan. Kelly's plan was to dominate junior year grade-wise and on the basketball court, so she can get an athletic scholarship. She intends to be a good auntie, and help Erykah through the pregnancy. Along the way they'll learn some harsh realities about the world, be forced to make some huge decisions-- and...
16) The raven
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Language
English
Description
"In a world where dreams and reality overlap, when a dream world stalker begins killing her tormentors, a bullied high schooler must stop The Raven's deadly attacks on her behalf"--
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"It's time to get the band together! Prep school students Zack, Tomika, Summer, Lawrence, and Freddy are in for the surprise of a lifetime. Their super-strict principal has hired a new substitute teacher, Mr. Finn--who secretly rocks!"--Back cover.
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