preparatory schools

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Spoiled

a novel
2012
When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenage daughter.

Ordinary ghosts

2007
Fifteen-year-old prep-school student Emil Simon's life is uneventful until he finds a key that unlocks every building on campus and begins to discover truths about his mother's death, missing brother, and emotionally unavailable father.

Another Faust

2010
Years after five children mysteriously disappeared from cities across Europe, they reappear at an exclusive party in New York City under the tutelage of a suspicious benefactor, but their unique gifts--reading minds, stopping time, seducing with false beauty, and more--begin to bring them more consequences then benefits.

Better than yesterday

2007
Three seniors from an exclusive Connecticut prep school go to New York City to find their runaway friend, and in the process discover themselves and the true value of their friendship.

Bullyville

2008
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on September 11th, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.

Understanding A separate peace

a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
2002
Presents primary documents that show how American author John Knowles' 1959 novel, "A Separate Peace, " both reflects the world of young people between 1942 and 1945 and relates to issues of the 1990s.

Bullyville

2007
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.

Nobody was here

7th grade in the life of me, Penelope
2004
Life in New York in the 1980s is made more difficult for a middle school girl by problems at home and at school.

The pity party

8th grade in the life of me, Cass
2005
When Cass Levin, an orphaned eighth-grader at Elston Prep in New York City, begins a frienship with Rod Punkin, her world begins to change.

Lip gloss jungle

2008
Lauren Page learns how to fit in with the cutthroat society of seventh grade while her former best friend Sadie teams up with Sheridan Riley, an Ashley-imitator, to overthrow the Ashleys.

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