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Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: They're not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students-children of immigrants and blue-collar workers-who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But college is expensive, unfamiliar, and intimidating. Inexperienced students expect tough classes and demanding, remote faculty. They may not know what an assignment...
42) Nobody but us
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student. Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacation: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights--and the chance to get to know each other better, away from prying eyes. It should be a perfect romantic getaway for two. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, each realizes...
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 3
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs saving"--
45) His favorites
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"They were on a lark, three teenaged girls speeding across the greens on a "borrowed" golf cart, at night, drunk. The cart crashes and one of the girls lands violently in the rough, killed instantly. The driver, Jo, flees the hometown that has turned against her and enrolls at a prestigious boarding school. Her past weighs on her. She is responsible for the death of her best friend. She has tipped her parents' rocky marriage into demise. She is ready...
46) Whiplash
Series
Language
English
Description
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer...
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting...
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The seven kids who bonded in Mr. Terupt's fifth-grade class are in eighth grade now and reunited with their beloved teacher . . . To celebrate their remaining time with Mr. Terupt, the students hatch bucket-list type projects to make the school year important, memorable, and way bigger than just the group. Will the gang stick together down to the final project? Will their friendships endure after the difficult goodbye?
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wanda, a little witch, feels that something is wrong when she arrives for her first day of school to discover all her classmates are fairies, but her teacher and some new friends soon make her feel right at home.
Author
Series
Publisher
1001 Dark Nights Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Learning curves have never been so off-limits. Professor Shane Warden is on the verge of getting tenure. He never thought he'd see the day, after a false accusation from a student years ago that nearly destroyed his career, and decimated his ability to trust. But the moment he walks into class and lays eyes on the seductive blonde with legs that go on forever and lips he immediately wants to kiss, he knows he's in trouble. This time for real. Single...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first-day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn't anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won't cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and first love sitting in the front row"--Amazon.com.
Author
Language
English
Description
This guide provides information on the best practices and evidence-based programs for promoting safety and preventing violence in school settings. The guide is breaking new ground by using lessons learned to identify and promote best practices for school safety. The guide prioritizes the programs and practices shown to be most effective based on research, making it both distinct from and a compliment to other school safety resources in Colorado
58) Without mercy
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to keep an eye on her half-sister, Shaylee, Julia Farentino takes a job at an elite boarding school in Oregon known for turning wayward kids around, but she's suspicious of the school, because she knows of one student who disappeared, and has never been found. Soon she uncovers disturbing information about previous students.
Author
Publisher
Theia
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This irresistible literary thriller set in early 1800s England involves a young Edgar Allan Poe and his schoolmaster, who must solve two murders, in settings ranging from the coal-cloaked urban jungle of London to the stark landscapes of rural Gloucestershire.
Author
Publisher
Future Tense Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Her relationship with a charming and deeply flawed private school teacher fifteen years her senior appeared to give her the kind of power teenagers wish for, regardless of consequences. Her teacher-now a registered sex offender-continually encouraged her passion for writing while...