school fiction

"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, thirteen-year-old Mark adjusts to long rides on the school bus after moving to a small town to live with his grandmother"--Provided by publisher.

It seems that aspiring playwright Natalie and musician Reid have been in competition all their young lives, but when they are forced to compete for scarce school budget dollars they embark on an all-out prank war which backfires; now they are forced to cooperate, pool their talents and ambitions to produce a school musical--and not only is cooperation an unfamiliar role, but they are suddenly starting to have feelings for each other.

"Cara Lee discovers what makes her special and finds room to shine in her own way"--Provided by publisher.

When their second grade classroom gets a pet hamster, best friends Stanley and Marco disagree about building her an obstacle course or a maze until Stanley uses his flatness to make both ideas work.

"When her imaginative friend Penn believes Evergreen Music School is haunted, Paige sets out to prove he is wrong, one fact at a time"--Provided by publisher.

"Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling and peculiar place that feels nonetheless strangely familiar. A place full of codes, compromises, questionable conduct, and unspoken rules that are as illogical at times as they are unbreakable. At Here, society is highly stratified. The popular kids, the friend groups, the good students and the bad, the outcasts and the insiders are all ruled by a godlike prince. This year, things are stranger than ever: a self-effacing first-year student vanishes into thin air; a persecuted outsider delivers himself into permanent exile; a tyrannical older student meets his match; a prophetess tests her powers. Behind the scenes, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into an unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all"--Provided by publisher.

"Seventeen-year-old Alyson discovers her classmates' dark side when a top-secret competition to see who has the most sexual prowess ends with a popular LAX captain's disappearance"--BTCat.

Wren Martin, the asexual student council president, plans to eliminate the school's annual Valentine's Day Dance, until his rival Leo sabotages Wren's plan by securing a sponsorship from a dating app, which leads to unexpected feelings and realizations about Leo's seemingly perfect life.

"Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous unsolved North Tower murders at the elite Carvell Academy of the Arts, forcing the school to close its doors. Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless freshman Lottie Fitzwilliam is determined to find out what really happened. But when her beautiful but standoffish roommate, Alice Wolfe, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual in a book hidden in Carvell's library, the North Tower claims another victim. Is there a killer among them . . . or worse, within them?"--Provided by publisher.

When nineteen-year-old Fin volunteers to take her secret love's place in their village's Finding, she is terrified. Those who are chosen at the Finding are whisked away to Castle Courtsheart, a vampire school where human students either succeed and become vampires, fail and spend the rest of their lives as human thralls...or they don't survive long enough to become either.