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The inspiration for the film starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, this resonant story of a mother’s unsettling quest to understand her teenage son’s deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them remains terrifyingly prescient.
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
Eva never really wanted to be a mother. And certainly not the mother of a boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker,...
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Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago, bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye became entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. Now, amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice:...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
Author
Series
The Veritas project volume 1
Publisher
Tommmy Nelson
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When several students at Baker High School are stricken by an alleged curse of the school's ghost, Elijah and Elisha Springfield and their parents, undercover investigators, are sent to uncover the truth behind the events.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving "Brotherhood of the Arts," two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting...
8) Hush, hush
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
Enamorarse no formaba parte de los planes de Nora Grey. Nunca se había sentido especialmente atraída por sus compañeros de instituto, a pesar de los esfuerzos de su mejor amiga, Vee, para encontrarle una pareja. Así era hasta la llegada de Patch. Con su sonrisa fácil y sus ojos que parecen ver en su interior, Nora se siente encandilada por él a pesar de sí misma.
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships,...
9) Sidelined
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Suzanne Balstar scores with this fast-paced women's fiction story of a female football coach who finds she can win on and off the field"--
10) The gossip
Author
Series
River glen volume 2
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a local woman, Mackenzie Laughlin goes up against a relentless killer who, targeting former high school classmates, has been waiting to teach them the lessons they should have learned long ago -- that gossip and popularity have a price, and it's time to pay.
11) Tenía que pasar
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Frank Li nació en California, nunca ha estado en Corea y casi no habla coreano. Aun asi, sus padres tienen una regla de oro: sólo puede llevar a casa chicas coreanas. Cuando se enamora de Brit (que no lo es) y decide fingir que sale con su amiga Joy (que sí lo es), Frank aprenderá que no sabe tanto del amor como cree ni quizá tampoco de sí mismo." -- cover page 4.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process.
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher -- a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case...
13) In beta
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Publisher
Inkshares
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1993, and Jay and Colin are small-town geeks. Senior year is nearly over, and they're still as unpopular as ever. Everything changes when they discover a disk containing a computer program called The Build, a pixel-perfect replica of their hometown. As the boys tweak its code, they discover they can bend the laws of reality. With godlike power, they react as any teenager would: hacking high school to make it more awesome. But someone -- or something...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Harlem. Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
15) Buzz kill
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Pandora Lynch lives in Alaska with her single dad, an online therapist for Silicon Valley's brightest and squirreliest. Homeschooled by computer and a self-taught hacker, Pandora is about to enter high school to learn how to be normal. That's the plan at least. NorCal runaway George Jedson is a hacker too--one who leaves the systems he attacks working better than before. After being scooped up by a social media giant, will George go legit--or pull...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends makes a pact to finally achieve their high school superlatives one way or another in this lively new novel from the acclaimed author of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel. In 1997, grunge is king, Titanic is a blockbuster (and Blockbuster still exists), and Thursday nights are for Friends. In Bellport, Connecticut, four best friends and high school seniors are ready to light the world on fire....
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brae Hill Valley is a struggling high school in one the biggest cities in Texas. English teacher Lena Wright, a spoken-word poet, can never seem to truly connect with her students. Hernan D. Hernandez is confident in front of his biology classes, but tongue-tied around the woman he most wants to impress. Down the hall, math teacher Maybelline Galang focuses on the numbers as she struggles to parent her daughter, while Coach Ray hustles his troubled...
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students. The day class and the night class. At. twilight, whet the students f the day class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the night class on their way to school.... The academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires"-p. 4 Cover.
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Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar - a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust? ... As gray wolf Legoshi continues to grapple with his feelings for dwarf rabbit Haru, he discovers another member of the Drama Club is friendly with her too. But just how friendly ...? Meanwhile, someone is developing feelings...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando Edward Cullen y Bella Swan se conocieron en Crepúsculo, nació una historia de amor icónica. Pero hasta ahora, sus fans solo conocen la historia a través de Bella. Por fin los lectores podrán vivir la versión de Edward en la muy esperada novela Sol de medianoche. La inolvidable historia, contada a través de los ojos de Edward, toma un cariz nuevo y definitivamente oscuro. Conocer a Bella es lo más perturbador e intrigante que le ha sucedido...
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