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2) Our Kids
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Our systems are failing the potential and future of young people who experience foster care or homelessness. The Mockingbird Society is working to change that. Using its youth-adult partnership model, Mockingbird develops young people who have experienced foster care or homelessness into leaders and advocates who develop and advance policy reforms. Mockingbird’s youth advocates safely share their experiences as they advocate passionately for a brighter...
3) Class Act
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The trainees are entering their final assessment phase and it’s time to find out whether they’ve made the grade. The shortage of science teachers in England has reached crisis point but Ian still may not pass the course if he does not change his teaching skills. After an observation by his university tutor, he admits that he still sees himself as a chemist rather than a teacher. He has one month left to meet standards or he will have to repeat...
5) My preschool
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows a little boy during his day at preschool, from cheerful hellos in circle time, to painting colorful pictures and playing at the water table, to passing out paper cups for snack.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Dan Rather uncovers the poor state of Detroit Public Schools in Michigan. Investigating the mismanagement, deficit, and high turnover rates of superintendents via interviews with the school board, former superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, and Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, Rather discovers the situation is bleak in Detroit for the city's children. Over the course of eighteen months, Rather finds the failure of DPS to be a top-down...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Camden, NJ, per pupil spending was more than $25,000 in 2013, making it one of the highest spending districts in the nation. But all that extra money has not changed the fact that Camden’s public schools are among in the worst in the nation, notorious for their abysmal test scores, the frequent occurrence of in-school violence, dilapidated buildings, and an on-time graduation rate of just 61 percent. This is the story of how Camden became one...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When the popular girls club takes interest in Mia, she has to decide between being popular and her new cupcake club friends.
9) 33 minutes
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An epic lunch period leads to a fateful showdown as small, skinny seventh-grader Sam's former best friend--now a popular athlete--promises to beat him up at recess in exactly thirty-three minutes.
Author
Series
Alice-Miranda books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"There's loads of drama in store for Alice-Miranda and her friends at boarding school"--
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Nikki and her friends team up for another adventure.
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The biggest, toughest girl in school joins the football team and foils a sly fourth grader's attempts to win the affections of the snobbiest girl in the class.
15) Rodrick rules
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
16) Party poopers
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 9
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Ecch is in love with Bernie Bridges and Bernie decides to become the nastiest, grossest, most disgusting kid in school to try to shake her interest.
Bernie is planning to gross out Jennifer Ecch so he can go to the dance with April-May June.
17) Variant
Author
Series
Variant (Robison Wells) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
Author
Series
Rotten School volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rotten School's bad boy, Bernie B., is trying to turn over a new leaf in order to date the prettiest girl in school, but he may trip over his own slime trail.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When the magic wind turns fourth-grader Katie into her friend George, who has been playing practical jokes to liven up their school, she has to figure out how to get him out of trouble and sooth everyone's hurt feelings.
When the magic wind turns fourth-grader Katie into her friend George, who has been playing practical jokes to liven up their school, she has to figure out how to get him out of trouble and soothe everyone's hurt feelings.
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