catholic schools

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.

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.

Arlene, a young girl growing up in Baltimore during the early 1950s, has her worst nightmare come true when she gets the dreaded Sister Rose for her sixth grade teacher.

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.

When supremely organized seventh-grader, Molly McGinty, loses the notebook she relies on to keep her life in order she spends the day in chaos.