alternative schools

In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.

Documents the experiences of teachers, staff, and students at an alternative high school in Washington, D.C., which has an under twenty-five percent graduation rate, and looks how mandated, standardized test scores influence the futures of the students as well as teacher pay, school funding, and staff job security.

A coming-of-age story of both a young teacher and a student, and a meditation on education, race, and justice in the rural south.

In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admisstion are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.

Fifth-grader Kat Greene is struggling with her boy-crazy best friend, her lame role in the production of Harriet the Spy at her progressive New York City school, and her mother's preoccupation with cleanliness--a symptom of her worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder.

A coming-of-age story of bot ha young teacher and a student, and a meditation on education, race, and justice in the rural south.

"Falling for a young man who has accepted a job at a hippie Quaker school, Flora leaves her elite prep school to join him, but must make the most of the situation when he fails to show up, in a story told through letters, emails, and news stories"--OCLC.

"After an incident involving the vandalism of a cottage museum that once belonged to famous poet Rufus Baylor, sixteen-year-old Sarah is sentenced to community service and a poetry appreciation course taught by Baylor himself"--OCLC.

Brent Bonham is sent to an alternative campus after committing a crime, where he meets bully Jessa McCain.