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Detective Commissario Guido Brunetti has been called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare. A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy.
Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his own son, is rivaled only by his contempt for a community that is more concerned with protecting the reputation of the school, and its privileged students, than understanding this tragedy. The young man is the...
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Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
6) One Girl
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A meditative picture book about the power of reading and how one child can change the world, from #1 bestselling author Andrea Beaty
One girl. One spark. Faint and fading in the dark.
Flicker ... Flicker ... Flicker ... Glow. Tiny ember. Burning low.
Inspired by the global movement to empower girls through education, this lyrical story tells of one small girl who reads a book that lights a spark. She shares what she learns with her class, and the...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Percy Darling, a seventy-year-old who lives alone in a farmhouse outside Boston, experiences a series of life changes with various members of his family after he helps his oldest daughter by allowing her to run a progressive preschool in his barn.
10) The report card
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
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My weird school daze volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A.J. and his friends are thrilled to finally be graduating from second grade, but when the PTA president turns the occasion into a madhouse, they begin to wonder if starting third grade is really such a big deal.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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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...
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Barbour Publishing, Inc
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2015.
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English
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The collapse of a schoolhouse puts pressure on Amish families and their long-held educational values. Ella Hilty anticipates marrying Gideon Wittner and becoming a mother to his children. In a whirling clash of values, Ella seeks the solid ground that seems to have slipped away. Margaret Simpson, an English schoolteacher, wonders if she is losing her last chance at love. As the local authorities draw lines in the sand, Margaret puts romance at risk...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Summer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax. Fischer Hall is busier than ever, filled with squealing thirteen- and fourteen-year-old girls attending the first ever Tania Trace Teen Rock Camp, hosted by pop sensation Tania Trace herself--who just happens to be newly married to Heather's ex-boyfriend, heartthrob...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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“I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” -- Booknest
A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, Vulture, BookBub, and ENTROPY Best Books pick!
Washington Post "5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel" pick!
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