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Pub. Date
2017.
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"In 2009, eighty-five-year-old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson Tommy is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms. The ensuing battle to reinstate the teachers raises the specter of Ludka's World War II past--a past she's spent a lifetime trying to forget ... As Ludka's influential family defends Tommy under increasingly vicious...
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"Against the backdrop of the breathtaking Bridal Veil Falls in a historic Oregon logging community, a schoolteacher finds herself torn between a past love and the man who could be her future. Sixteen-year-old Margaret Garvey had promised her heart to Nathaniel Cooper the night he disappeared from town. Four years later, just as she's giving love a second chance with Andrew, a handsome logger, Nathaniel suddenly returns to town with a devastating secret....
983) Flying solo
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Rachel, having chosen to be mute following the sudden death of a classmate, shares responsibility with the other sixth-graders who decide not to report that the substitute teacher failed to show up.
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Rotten School volume 8
Pub. Date
2011, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Mrs. Heinie decides that she can't take it anymore and is replaced by an extremely strict teacher, Mr. Skruloose, Bernie Bridges and his Rotten House buddies try to think of a way to bring Mrs. Heinie back.
986) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Description
The inimitable Anne Shirley makes her mark on Avonlea in this audio-book edition of the sequel to the best-selling novel -- Anne of Green GablesAn Author's Republic audio production.
987) Grand Avenue
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The bonds of friendship between four women--Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki--have endured for twenty years, sustaining them through marriage, motherhood, and the challenges of life, until a devastating betrayal threatens to tear them apart.
This insightful "New York Times" bestseller follows four women who have shared everything for 20 years--friendship, marriage, children, and career. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists of fate, and...
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Teachers inspire students every day, and this new collection provides some much-needed inspiration for these dedicated educators. With great stories about teaching from teachers and stories of thanks from students, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers makes for a great teacher gift all year round!Teachers will love the books heartfelt, inspiring, and humorous stories from inside and outside the classroom. Stories from teachers and students...
989) Street magic
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Series
Circle opens volume 2
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Former "street rat" Briar Moss must face his past when he discovers a young mage in need of a mentor.
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Peter Shandy volume 9
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
"Although real murder is never a laughing matter, Charlotte MacLeod makes the fictional kind more fun than anyone else. Her latest outing with Professor Peter Shandy, New England's famous horticulturist and homegrown hercule Poirot, takes us to the Maine coast, a world of stormy seas and verdant gardens where dark and bright are strangely mixed... and where secrets abound." "Peter Shandy has journeyed northward alone to escape his wife Helen's all-female...
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Recovering from a shocking act of violence, Cory Chase, classicist and mythographer, decides that taking part in The Papyrus Project, which aims to restore the charred scrolls of Pompeii, might offer her a much needed escape. That is until she suspects that the Modern Pythagoreans, a cult who believe that a lost manuscript of Pythagoras may still exist, are also interested in the scrolls. Suddenly Cory finds herself following a trail that leads her...
992) Fury: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Malik Solanka, irascible doll-maker and retired historian of ideas, suffers the pain of wanting without knowing exactly what it is he wants. Escaping with his family to New York City and its crowded streets, Malik seeks to extinguish himself and forget the life he left behind in London.
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Amid a whirlwind of drugs, sex, and other temptations of the “English” world, a group of Amish teenagers on their Rumschpringe test the limits of their parents’ religion to the breaking point. The murder of one and the abduction of another challenge Professor Michael Branden as he confronts the communal fear that the young people can never be brought home safely. Along with Holmes County Sheriff Bruce Robertson and Pastor Cal Troyer, Professor...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While five little mice at Mouseford Academy are looking for their missing biology professor, they dive to a haunted shipwreck off Whale Island to find a rare diamond that was lost when the ship sank.
995) The green
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The Green tells the story of a teacher at a Connecticut private high school, who thinks he can live a simple, harmonious domestic existence with his partner Daniel, a caterer. But Michael's world is turned upside down when he is accused of engaging in 'inappropriate behavior' with a male student. With his job, relationship, and freedom in jeopardy, Michael must confront the suspicions of his co-workers and Daniel's doubts about his partner's innocence....
997) Sedition: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The setting: London, 1794. The problem: Four nouveau riche fathers with five marriageable daughters. The plan: The young women will learn to play the piano, give a concert for young Englishmen who have titles but no fortunes, and will marry very well indeed. The complications: The lascivious (and French) piano teacher; the piano maker's jealous (and musically gifted) daughter; the one of these marriageable daughters with a mating plan of her own....
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Flower power books volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"The Flower Power girls plot to bring two of their teachers together in a matchmaking scheme at their school's "Kids Night In.""--
1000) The sixth form
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ethan Whitley attends an elite New England prep school, he is invited into a world of privilege and desire where he discovers the price of betrayal when he is drawn into an investigation of the death of another student.