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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling Sisters of Suspense join forces for a gripping standalone novel about a clique of popular girls whose high school friendship is marked by a tragedy that continues to haunt them decades later. Jackson and Bush take the reader's hand and twist them through this shocking tale of suspense.
"An increasingly tense race to find who's doing the killing—and who's going to survive."...
"An increasingly tense race to find who's doing the killing—and who's going to survive."...
3) Overnight
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Gray hopes that going to a slumber party with the "Lucky Seven" at her private school will take her mind off her mother's cancer, but when she is taken from the party by a deranged woman, both she and the other girls discover things about themselves and each other.
Author
Series
The merciless volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.
Author
Series
In or out volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A lot changes in the lives of best friends Marnie and Nola when they enter ninth grade, as bubbly Marnie craves to be part of the in-crowd and shy Nola is content to stay on the social outskirts.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 90s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history. When Crack Was King follows four individuals to give us a startling portrait of crack's destruction and devastating legacy. Elgin Swift, an archetype of American industry and ambition and son of a crack-addicted father who turned their home into a "crack house"; Lennie Woodley, a former crack addict and a sex worker; Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore...
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera invites thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture. Each of them struggled...
13) Hard and fast
Author
Series
Fast track (Erin McCarthy) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sociology student Imogen Wilson gets more than she bargained for when she attempts to study the dating--and mating--habits of stock car drivers and instead become infatuated with Southern gentleman driver Ty McCordle.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Description
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted...
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted...
Author
Language
English
Description
An eminent sociologist makes the provocative case that the future of democratic societies rests not only on shared values but also on shared "social infrastructure": the libraries, childcare centers, bookstores, coffee shops, pools, and parks that promote crucial, sometimes life-saving connections between people who might otherwise fail to find common cause.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Amy Flowers is starting seventh grade at a new school, the exclusive Allington Academy, but in order to fit in, she has to get on the right side of the League, the clique that controls the school, and its mean leader, Fiona.
19) Trading faces
Author
Series
Payton and Emma Mills books volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Mix
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grade twins Payton and Emma switch places, they shake up the social hierarchy at their new middle school.
Author
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned. It is home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology,. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory's telescopes, residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity; schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. Kurcxy...
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