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- Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt
I read Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's group.
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/9/22 Edition
Revelations by Mary Sharratt I've been reading Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school
- Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
That is because of something called the patriarchy, which I'm sure they have not discussed in that school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/21 Edition
01 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school
- Six More Books about Brave Female Spies
It's 1945, and Edith Graham is a small-town British schoolteacher who is thrilled to sign on with the British Control Commission to help get schools back up and running for the children in war-torn Germany She'll keep her cover by assisting with schools while actually trying to help locate Nazis.
- Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire
imagined when a cabin boy is brutally killed and the culprit turns out to be a cruel, ruthless murderer on board
- Review of I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman
Emily's just trying to escape the drama and pressure of her private school in Los Angeles, and she's
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
imagined when a cabin boy is brutally killed and the culprit turns out to be a cruel, ruthless murderer on board
- Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit in at her high school misfits embracing their otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school
- Review of The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker
When his school is shut down by the Nazis, he weds a widow who seeks a husband to help her raise her Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021
It's the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school careers.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition
prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister, and Della Miles is a thoughtful, pensive, upstanding high-school
- Review of In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan
adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves, harpies, trolls, and all the rest; there’s a school
- Review of Normal People by Sally Rooney
Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/23/21 Edition
She'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school sweetheart
- Review of Jack by Marilynne Robinson
prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister, and Della Miles is a thoughtful, pensive, upstanding high-school
- Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin
She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition
She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Three Memoirs I'm Reading Now, 10/7/20 Edition
Button-Downs Keena Roberts grew up splitting her time between Botswana and an elite Philadelphia girls' school
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect. the Natural History Museum, putting Boss Tweed behind bars, securing a more equitable New York public school
- Review of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green
Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett, The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
That’s what I set out to change at the Ziggy Johnson School of the Theatre.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/21 Edition
Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect, and this intersection of their lives
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition
the Natural History Museum, putting Boss Tweed behind bars, securing a more equitable New York public school
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect. the Natural History Museum, putting Boss Tweed behind bars, securing a more equitable New York public school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/21 Edition
Emily's just trying to escape the drama at her private school in Los Angeles, and she's not at all convinced
- Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year
When his school is shut down by the Nazis, he weds a widow who seeks a husband to help her raise her Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
At the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota, Indian orphans (plus Odie and Albert) spend their
- Review of Wild Life by Keena Roberts
between a primate research camp in Botswana, where she felt at home, and an elite Philadelphia girls' school
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet
- Review of Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
mentions that the Making Caring Common Project backs up these findings with data from three thousand high school
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
village where girls are often married off by age fourteen and are frequently made to stop attending school emotional, physical, familial, and societal hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
The oldest of the sisters is sent away to live out her school years as a privileged guest of wealthy
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music
young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit in at her high school misfits embracing their otherness, Elise begins to see that the world outside of her claustrophobic high school
- My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes
- Six Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which begins the story of a magical high school
- Six Fantastic Stand-Alone Young Adult Books
She's eager to graduate from high school and escape her small Indiana town, but the days are interminably Now everyone--Eli's angry twin sister with her attempts to freeze out Carver at school; Mars's father
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
experiences in the US—with her sister and family on weekends in inner city Chicago and her weekday life and schooling
- Review of The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
She and her best friend Yunie are making their way together through high school and all of its pitfalls
- Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into
her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school
- Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet
- Review of A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
Penelope shares her increasing annoyance at the bards' reported tales of Odysseus as he extends his outrageously
- Six of My Favorite Book Club Books of 2023
She was not allowed to attend school.
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge
Alex dropped out of high school and into a world of shady drug dealers, cruelty, and taking desperate
- Review of The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
He considers his process (he's not allowed to hoard or save delights for days that might light on the