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When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn t have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she ll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-mechanical one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.

A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.

A guide to storytelling, with a selection of stories from around the world.

  'Very funny, very touching, very truthful - a total delight to read.' Jacqueline Wilson 'Amazing' Noel Fielding A laugh-out-loud, against-all-odds triumph of a story: the funniest debut of 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD SELECTED FOR THE 2022 READ FOR EMPATHY COLLECTION    Billy Plimpton is an eleven-year-old boy with a big dr...

"A powerful, honest, heart-tugging, nail-biting, so-real-it-reaches-into-your-bones story about suicide and mental health and the ways in which too many of us struggle alone. Except we're not alone. Bill Konigsberg makes that beautifully, movingly clear. Stunning." Jennifer Niven, bestselling author of All the Bright Places Aaron and Tillie don't know each other, but they are both struggling with life. They arrive at a New York bridge at the same...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "The perfect kind of story for our current era."—Hypable From the author of Burn Our Bodies Down, a feminist Lord of the Flies about three best friends living in quarantine at their island boarding school, and the lengths they go to uncover the truth of their confinement when one disappears. This fresh debut is a mind-bending novel unlike anything you've read before. It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the To...

Reissued now in hardcover with a new introduction by the author, Cormier's chilling look at the insidious world of gang intimidation and the abuse of power in a boys' boarding school is no less relevant today than it was in 1974.

Jerusha Abbott, an orphan, does not know the identity of the mysterious "Daddy-Long-Legs" who is paying her way through college. But although she is told to expect no reply to the many letters she sends him, some things are just irresistible.

Some secrets can’t stay buried.When I first attended Wolf Moon Academy, the Blood Council and heirs did everything they could to make Liam reject me. I was beneath their status, but much to their chagrin… I persevered.Now that we’re officially bound, they’re determined to get rid of me. After each failed attempt, they up the stakes. Nothing is off the table.But I'm determined to take back what is rightfully mine and do what they refuse to do -- protect the packs... as long as they don't kill me...

A Disney Original movie for 2020! The Worst Witch with cute critters! Some people in school are afraid of the kids in the Upside-Down Magic class. Others aren't very kind. But Nory and her friends won't let that stop them. Not with the school talent show coming up! Except... Nory's afraid her fluxing magic will go wonky and upset her father. Pepper fears that her Fierce abilities will make all the animals run wild. Bax's extreme new magic skill...

A poignant coming-of-age novel about two best friends whose friendship is tested when they get the opportunity to leave their impoverished small town for an elite prep school. For fans of Looking for Alaska. Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He's been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Q...

She's my last chance. Those four words echo in Violet Spencer’s mind, tugging at her curiosity even as rage builds within her.Arbon Academy was supposed to be a bright new start. An opportunity for greatness, and something an orphan girl could only dream of. For a while there, it seemed to be exactly that. But Violet's bright future is suddenly looking dim. Arbon Academy and Prince Alex are nothing but a facade. A trap.In a sinister world of ballgowns and backstabbing, of perfumes and politics,...

A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Texas since her family moved there for her father's work. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family's dependent vis...

"Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn" answers the question every girl wants answered: what do teenage boys really think about? Through the eyes of a mystery narrator, we enter the mind of Gideon Rayburn, an average teenage boy from suburban Washington, who's been plunged into an extraordinary and very raucous world. He stumbles through a wild junior year at Midvale Academy, a prestigious boarding school in northeastern Connecticut. Aided by his debauched and rebellious roommates, and an extremely...