catholic schools

In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.

The murder of a student at an all-boys Catholic school in the border city of El Paso, Texas, throws the lives of a diverse group of friends into chaos.

Fifteen-year-old Ryan McIntyre is sent to St. Ignatius Catholic School where he falls under the spell of the popular Father Sebastian, an exorcist assigned to work with some of the school's most troubled teens.

Tenth grader Javier Avila is chosen, against his will, to be the anchorman for the school's new televised announcement program and fears he will fail in front of the entire school.

Recalls what it was like to go to both a public and a Catholic school in Illinois in the 1940s.

In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.

In Pittsburgh in 1933, sixth-grader Mike Costa notices a connection between several strange occurrences, but the only way he can find out the truth about what's happening is to be nice to the class bully. Includes historical facts.

Kitty moves to a new neighborhood and eventually makes a successful transition into her new third grade.

While she is in the sixth grade, twelve-year-old Bobbie's two problems are adjusting to class with Sister Alice and realizing that her grandmother is old and in poor health.

Francie finds life in her large family difficult sometimes and getting the dreaded Sister Ursula as her second grade teacher does not help, but making a new friend and working on the class play do.