Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
2) Forever
Author
Description
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--
Author
Appears on list
Description
"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
Author
Series
Hana-kimi volume 1
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
When Mizuki is almost caught changing clothes, the school goes wild with rumors about a mysterious girl on campus. Can she keep her secret, or will she be outed and separated from Sano?
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
April 5, 1976. As Boston simmered with tension over forced school busing, one photo made headlines. Examine the power of photography and the iconic value of the flag, as it opens a dramatic window onto the turbulent issue of race in America.
10) Marina
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
Author
Series
Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
216 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Middle-schooler Nate Wright vies against his rival, the "perfect" Artur, to win the grand prize of a customized skateboard in their scout troop contest
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
247 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 22 cm
Description
On 21 October 1966, thousands of tonnes of coal tip waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass crashed through the local school and 144 people were killed: 116 were schoolchildren. Gaynor Madgwick was 8 at the time and severely injured. Here, Gaynor tells her own story and interviews people affected by that day.
Author
Series
Komi can't communicate volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
Description
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Komi and her classmates are in the Big Apple, and Manbagi sees it as a chance to make a Big Confession. But as much as she wants to...
Author
Series
Treehouse series volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
377 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Andy and Terry travel through time trying to save their treehouse from highly talented, angry ants and Inspector Bubblewrap the building inspector while rushing to meet their publisher's deadline.
Author
Formats
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
453 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
Documents the author's adventures growing up in Botswana with her eccentric family, an upbringing marked by her doctor father's yearnings to be a vet, her holistic and home-schooling mother, and the apartheid mind-set embraced by their white neighbors.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Appears on list
Description
"After seventh graders Benji and Felix "borrow" $20 from a lost wallet, the billionaire owner challenges them to spend over $5 million dollars in thirty days in order to learn life lessons about money"--
Felix Rannells and Benji Porter were never supposed to be field-trip partners. Felix is a rule follower. Benji is a rule bender. They're not friends. And they don't have anything to talk about. Until...They find a wallet. A wallet that belongs to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Nine Black students were chosen to integrate Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957. The Little Rock Nine endured what followed not only as a group but also as individuals. At fourteen years old, Carlotta Walls was the youngest member of the brave group. As angry mobs protested, the students were escorted in the high school by members of the 101st Airborne Division, which had been called in by then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure...
Author
Formats
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother's sometimes-boyfriend, Mikey. She is turned off by the petty girls at her high school, and the sleazy men she typically meets. When she drops out, she is presented with a job offer that will remake her world entirely: she is hired as a typist for the artist Andy Warhol. Warhol is composing an unconventional novel by recording the conversations...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request