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"Admission into New York City's specialized public high schools is an incredibly competitive process-about only 3 percent of the total applicants are accepted! Taken by eighth- and ninth-graders, the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) is a critical part of the application process to these prestigious institutions. Offered once a year, the SHSAT consists of a verbal section, divided into verbal reasoning and reading comprehension, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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2019.
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English
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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...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Tracy Flick Can't Win comes a darkly hilarious novel about a high school election that brings out the worst in everyone—the basis for the film starring Reese Witherspoon!
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English...
Tracy Flick wants to be President of Winwood High. She’s one of those ambitious girls who finds time to do it all: edit the yearbook, star in the musical, sleep with her English...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club"--
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English
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2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. 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: remain silent,...
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"When her only friend transfers to a different high school, April braces for the worst year of her life, until she meets a charismatic boy named Jonah, who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. When his health declines, April must make an impossible choice: stick with the boy she loves or let him go so they can both heal"--
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Ella siempre lo amó. Él nunca lo supo. Hasta que la vida los volvió a encontrar ¿Se puede llegar tarde al amor? Sheccid ha sufrido un grave accidente. Está sola, aislada del mundo y de su familia; tiene marcas de intento de suicidio, pero no recuerdo nada. El médico le pide que se remonte al masado y reconstruya poco a poco los hechos. Ella descubre que el amor de José Carlos la ha mantenido con vida Y se aferra a él. Sólo piensa en una cosa:...
10) The dark Divine
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Dark Divine novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.
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English
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"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...
12) One perfect lie
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Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"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...
13) My friend Dahmer
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English
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Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. He would become one of America's most infamous serial killers. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Disney Channel's Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, "Mad Men"),...
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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,...
15) The gallows
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Rental edition]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after a deadly freak accident at a high school play, a misguided attempt to re-stage the play and honor the student proves that some things are better left in the past.
18) Rocket science
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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In spite of his stuttering problem, the high school debate team star invites Hal to join the team. Stumbling his way to the championship, Hal falls in love, gains confidence, and ultimately realizes that love and life should not be rocket science.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's career day, and two school administrators have just made a shocking discovery: the dead body of the groundskeeper! They decide to hide the body, sparking a series of wildly comic misadventures for teachers and students on a career day that no one will ever forget, no matter how hard they try!
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
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3 DVDs (approximately 576 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Funny and poignant, this school-based British drama follows the collision of cultures when two schools are integrated after years of racial segregation.
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