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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...
3) Frindle
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher. Someone older who understood you when you were young and searching, who helped you see the world as a more profound place, and gave you advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of your mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn't...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
NEWBERY COLLECTION. Winner of Newbery Award, 1997. Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixBowl competition.
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Airi Sano. After spending her entire childhood moving from one military base to another, she's excited to be settling down for the long-term in Hawai'i. She's less excited about her new teacher, who's determined to make Airi like school. But she's got a plan: prank her teacher so hard that she gives up on even trying to get Airi to do any work--especially any reading. But Mrs. Ashton won't give up, no matter what Airi does. Airi will need the...
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English
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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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Language
English
Description
When classmates Baxter, Abigail, Turner, and Emerson break a school rule, they're forced to travel to the middle of nowhere for an extra-credit project. They think things can't get much worse. After all, how will learning to survive in the wilderness help them stay out of trouble in school?
But what starts off as a weekend of team building takes a scary turn when their instructor goes missing and they are given nothing but pages of a survival guide...
Author
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.