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Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the halls of Newport Academy, a unique private school that has attracted generations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, a poignant and unforgettable lesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin for Maggie Shaw, her fourteen-year-old daughter Beck, and her sixteen-year-old son Travis.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Devoted to the husband whose family took her in as an orphan, Ruth wonders about her choices and the life they'll share when her husband retires as the head of the private boys' school to which the couple has given everything they have.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Drawn in by the promises of the popular and wealthy Naomi, insecure prep school student Carole is talked into accompanying Naomi and two young men to a Vermont cabin for the purpose of losing her virginity, with tragic results.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When young Charlie Boykin gains entry into the wealthy society of the most exclusive part of Nashville, he falls under its spell. But he soon learns what he'd have to give up in return in this novel that asks why we envy and worship a class of people that so often exhibits the worst excesses"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Amazon Children's Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Lip gloss addict Emerson Taylor and her best friend, Trina, have declared this year the Year of the Boy and vowed to find boyfriends. But for Emerson, there{u2019}s just one problem: she can read the mind of anyone whose lips touch hers. It{u2019}s totally creepy{u2014}and at first it seems like a curse. But Emerson soon realizes there are perks to her strange talent{u2014}like the ability to steal secrets, memories, and most importantly, test answers....
Author
Publisher
Prospect Park
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Helen Fairchild is leading a privileged Pasadena existence: married to a pillar of the community; raising a water polo-playing son destined for the most select high school; volunteering on the most fashionable committees. It only bothers her a tiny bit that she has never quite fit in with the proper crowd, never finished that graduate degree in Classics, and never had that second baby. But the rigid rules of society in Pasadena appeal to Helen, the...
11) Magic for liars
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Sadie Roper moved back to London determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She needs to get her daughter settled into a most exclusive school in the city. She's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But Sadie finds herself on the outside as she navigates the fraught politics of the school gate. A scandalous, high-profile case is the perfect opportunity to prove herself...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This deliciously sharp novel captures the relentless ambitions and fears that animate parents and their children in modern America, exploring the conflicts between achievement and potential, talent and privilege. Set in the fictional town of Crystal, Colorado, The Gifted School is a keenly entertaining novel that observes the drama within a community of friends and parents as good intentions and high ambitions collide in a pile-up with long-held...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
" He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland's life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates--the highly-rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the president of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a coming-of-age tale of privilege and hidden sexuality at a New England boys' boarding school. Sam has spent more than half his life at the prestigious Leverett high school, which lies at the heart of an affluent Connecticut town of the same name. First as a student in the late 1960s, before coeducation, then as an English teacher after Harvard and Oxford, he developed a keen sense of loyalty to this...
17) New kid
Author
Series
New kid (Jerry Craft) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Description
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the few kids of color in his entire grade. As he makes the daily trip from his Washington Heights apartment to the upscale Riverdale Academy Day School, Jordan soon finds himself torn between two worlds--and...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rose O'Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son isn't fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood--the very place Rose grew up as the daughter of an infamous local con artist--can barely contain her family. Rose can't catch a professional break either, trapped in the same junior bank teller role for years. Life as the only mom...
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