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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this suspenseful, provocative novel of friendship, secrets, and deceit, a successful writer returns to her elite Swiss boarding school to get to the bottom of a tragic accident that took place while she was a student twenty years earlier. (Original), 352pp.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, fifteen-year-old Sophronia tries to uncover who is behind a plot to control a prototype that has the potential to alter human and supernatural travel, and to learn what role Mademoiselle Geraldine's academy for young spies plays in the affair.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood crush ... and blowing the dust off clues to a lifelong mystery:...
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Alternate England, 1851. Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's floating dirigible have become tedious. Sophronia would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she's not sure whom to trust. What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? A large-scale plot is under way, and when...
Author
Series
Finishing school volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
This program helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Created specifically to hold the attention of young adults, this series uses an encouraging, real-world approach to show teens how to succeed as young parents. Volume 3 Postpartum includes: physical recovery and postpartum emotions, baby care and behaviors,SIDS, and relationships and parenting.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This program helps teens navigate life from the first signs of pregnancy through birth, diapers, and finishing school. Created specifically to hold the attention of young adults, this series uses an encouraging, real-world approach to show teens how to succeed as young parents. Volume 3 Postpartum includes: physical recovery and postpartum emotions, baby care and behaviors,SIDS, and relationships and parenting.
Author
Series
Janine (Maryann Cocca-Leffler) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
"Janine is good at a lot of things like singing, cheering, and spelling big words. But she is not very good at sports--her body just doesn't work like the other kids'. On field day at school, Janine tries her best to finish each challenge"--
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Babymouse is playing the flute, can she hit the right note and be the star of the school concert or is she finished before she gets started.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Through a particularly tragic series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half-marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how brutal some of the other runners...
15) The roadtrip
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Just after finishing a production of High School Musical the Musical, a group of Utah high school students goes to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a High School Musical Convention.
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], c2007
Language
English
Description
Vaucluse House: Peter Cundall visits Sydney's Vaucluse House, which was built in 1803. It's surrounded by 25 acres of gardens, including a pleasure garden, bushland, and significant trees. Peter also lends a hand in the huge kitchen garden. Compost Tea: Jerry Coleby-Williams shows how to make his grandfather's recipe for compost tea, a liquid manure that serves as a great garden fertilizer. Camellias: Jane Edmanson shows us a wonderful collection...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Zanna Mayfield gets an acceptance letter from St. Pommeroy’s School for Gifted Children, she jumps at the chance to put her considerable intellect to good use. But nothing can prepare her for the first day, when she discovers that she is a Scientist —one able to see and bend the basic functions of the universe like velocity, gravity, and chemical reactions to her own purposes. As Zanna struggles to make friends and learn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Graphic novel fans, prepare yourselves for a trip you won't soon forget! New York Times bestselling author Dan Gutman and veteran illustrator Jim Paillot have brought you a second zany My Weird School graphic novel! A.J. and his friends have the chance to win a trip to Dizzyland--if they can finish 5,000 books first. Dr. Carbles, the evil president of the Board of Education, doesn't think they can do it. But the Ella Mentry School kids are nothing...
Author
Series
Nightlights volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Raina Telgemeier meets Miyazaki with a Latin American twist in this mesmerizing follow-up to the best-selling children's graphic novel Nightlights. Lorena Alvarez's spunky heroine Sandy returns to explore a magical new dimension. On a school field trip to the river, Sandy wanders away from her classmates and discovers an empty turtle shell. Peeking through the dark hole, she suddenly finds herself within a magical realm. Filled with sculptures, paintings...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
According to many studies, almost one third of all public high school students and nearly one half of all blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans, fail to graduate from public high school each year. Many of these students abandon school with less than two years to complete their high school education. The decision to drop out is a serious one for students. Dropouts are much more likely than their peers who graduate to be unemployed, live in poverty,...
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