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  • Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

    universally familiar and is based on real-life events: Indigenous children kidnapped and sent to residential schools It details the goings-on at an Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off many American

  • Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik

    Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which begins the story of a magical high school Getting out of school alive was meant to be the solution to all their problems. wrong, El and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: they must find their way back into the school

  • Review of Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

    More from This Author Bruce Holsinger is also the author of The Gifted School, The Displacements , and

  • Review of Woodworking by Emily St. James

    James crafts a tender, funny story with zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town

  • Review of This Time It's Real by Ann Liang

    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

  • Review of See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon

    Barrett's tenacity and passion for the truth led to a journalistic coup in high school, one that exposed cheating throughout her school's crown jewel of sports, the revered, state-champion tennis team--and ensured that she was reviled by many of her peers and some in her school's administration. her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition

    uncomfortably familiar and based on real-life events: Indigenous children kidnaped and sent to residential schools It details the goings-on at an Indian Training School and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    01 Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey Selingo I have a rising high school about the pressure and the unknown of it all, as well as offering tips as to how to evaluate whether a school

  • Review of Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    Emma Starling is a former natural healer whose abilities have disappeared, and she's also a recent med-school It's not that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious classes she's been attending at the medical school without a direction for her future, Emma discovers that her beloved but estranged best friend from high school

  • Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences

    face of this discriminatory kidnaping, and tens of thousands of children have been absent from public school experiences in the US—with her sister and family on weekends in inner city Chicago and her weekday life and schooling

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/9/25 Edition

    In mid-1990s rural Montana, Jane only knows the books her father gives her instead of sending her to school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition

    died, her mother fell apart, her older sister Beth became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart, and after Jo moved in with the young married couple while she finished high school.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/1/24 Edition

    aspirations and the nerdy game store clerk she's fake dating in an elaborate attempt to rebirth her high school's Royally Magical Young Adult Series. 03 Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce Riley wants to bring back her school's

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    She was not allowed to attend school. At age 15, after years of excruciating systematic suffering, Young escaped to Texas, enrolled in school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/9/23 Edition

    Her sister is back from treatment, where Micah, Lily's new friend at school, was also in treatment. When Lily explores poetry as part of a school project, she finds the healing power of art--and realizes

  • Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year

    her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school and Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush It's not that she couldn't hack medical school--she just didn't go the first day, or the second, or any oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious classes she's been attending at the medical school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/25 Edition

    Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing after his high school

  • Review of Trip by Amie Barrodale

    autistic teenaged son Trip, who, through an unlikely series of events, has hitchiked from a therapy school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/10/25 Edition

    Bruce Holsinger is also the author of The Gifted School, The Displacements , and works of nonfiction.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/20/25 Edition

    and Libro.fm. 03 Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever Laurie Woolever is fresh from culinary school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition

    I'm listening to a madcap story about a nerdy misfit who's mistaken for a drug kingpin at his high school Rachael Flanery Santa Ana is a madcap story about a misfit who's mistaken for a drug kingpin at his high school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/25/25 Edition

    financial pressures and relationship issues, while precocious Vera tries to simply make a friend at school

  • Review of The Life We Bury (Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens

    Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story in order to complete a school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition

    Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/6/25 Edition

    #5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition

    about young love goes viral, it leads to a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school Eliza makes a deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school

  • Review of The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine #1) by Shannon Bowring

    Golden boy Nate grew up to become a police officer and marry his high-school sweetheart.

  • Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

    Nora's focused on her work, her small-town life, her kids' sports and their school play, and her longtime lovely small-town mom, but that Nora's (and others') duties related to the looming, extremely involved school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition

    Naomi Novik A Deadly Education was the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: this time they must find their way back into the school

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    Now he's about to set off on a cross-country road trip to track down his high-school sweetheart following

  • Review of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

    I adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition

    grief and loss, A Quiet Life; and I'm reading Lynn Painter's adorable rom-com about an eccentric high schooler Kirsten Bonato has suffered a loss of her own, which threw off her plans for vet school. Lynn Painter's adorable rom-com Better Than the Movies is about an eccentric high schooler coping with Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet

  • 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

  • Review of What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown

    In mid-1990s rural Montana, Jane only knows the books her father gives her instead of sending her to school

  • Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #youngadult, #fourstarbookreview 03 The Girl With All the Gifts ​ Melanie loves school ; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board

  • Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link

    Anabin, their high school music teacher, before them.

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    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 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 She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James

  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

    It feels notable that her frequent missteps (disastrous high school past, misrepresentation of where

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    When, due to her promising talent and her best friend from high school (who's now a high-powered agent

  • Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition

    the Gallion's crew or account seems to add up, and as the two ships begin losing power, everyone on board

  • Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can

  • Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads

    the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition

    But being a top student at a competitive school and having others distracted by your good looks doesn't

  • Review of The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

    But her adopted son Camden is living in Colorado with his wife in a modest rental home, teaching 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition

    Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story in order to complete a school

  • Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with But she fears she'll be killed in one of the school's daily unfortunate incidents before she can finish her of being capable of dark magic, but it's not like she's summoning her mortal flame or blowing the school feel like the page time spent on extensive explanations (of how enclaves do and don't work, how the school's I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/9/24 Edition

    Wes's dad dies only weeks into their first semester, Wes leaves behind his D1 baseball future, his schooling

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