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41) The rule
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saint Benedict's Prep, in Newark, New Jersey, is in the heart of one of America's most dangerous cities yet has a near 100% college acceptance rate for its inner city young men. See how the monks' recipe for success follows the Rule of Saint Benedict and how this sixth-century rule can serve as a model for urban schools worldwide.
42) Spoiled
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
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 teenaged daughter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
44) Descendants 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there?́?s a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, Uma unleashes havoc...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? A prestigious boys' boarding school. A best friend's betrayal. A decades-old mystery of a missing student. In this sharp literary thriller, Matthias Glass gets drawn into his past as he attempts to come to terms with the long-ago disappearance of his prep-school roommate--and to become the man he is meant to be In the middle of his senior year at the Blackburne School in Virginia, Matthias Glass's...
47) Why would I lie?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Viveca North is determined to be the valedictorian at her prep school, but when the new boy Jamison Sharpe, whom she is convinced is a fraud, threatens her goal, she sets out to uncover the truth behind his deceit.
48) Bullyville
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, 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.
49) Hancock Park
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While attending an exclusive prep school in Los Angeles, a smart but anxiety-ridden high school junior tries to deal with boys, popularity, and her parents' divorce.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In The Headmaster's Dilemma, Louis Auchincloss revisits the prep school world of his most famous novel. That book, The Rector of Justin, published in 1964, took the form of a fictional biography, giving the reader the full life story of a much beloved and revered, if also feared, headmaster of an exclusive New England prep school. In The Headmaster's Dilemma, we see up close what happens when a school's ideals and founding principles collide with...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old boy who has spent his entire life trying to avoid attention finds himself in the middle of a millenia-old struggle between titanic forces when he is simultaneously recruited by an exclusive prep school and followed by sinister agents.
53) Conversion
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at Colleen's high school, her small town of Danvers, Massachusetts, falls victim to rumors that lead to full-blown panic, and only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Woodburys cherish life in the affluent, bucolic suburb of Avalon Hills, Connecticut. George is a beloved science teacher at the local prep school, a hero who once thwarted a gunman, and his wife, Joan, is a hardworking ER nurse. They have brought up their children in this thriving town of wooded yards and sprawling lakes. Then one night a police car pulls up to the Woodbury home and George is charged with sexual misconduct with students from his...
57) The date to save
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Angelica Marie Hutcherson is an aspiring reporter for the San Anselmo Prep's newspaper, The Prepster; sophomore Colin Von Kohorn is it's editor, who keeps rejecting her stories because they do not reflect his "vision"; but when Colin suggests she write astory on the upcoming Academic Battle, Angelica senses an opportunity--unfortunately somebody has scheduled the Battle (which their school always wins) on the same day as the homecoming game (which...
58) Apartment 1986
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums while they try to reveal why her grandmother wants to travel back to 1986.
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