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- Review of Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine
It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà. Her attendance at the school is a last-ditch attempt to preserve her marriage prospects and assert some The other girls at school only know that Maddalena draws them into her orbit, and everyone wants to be
- Review of The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
applicants down," Lieber notes hopefully that "after several years of reporting, I have real hope that the schools potential partners; women's colleges; career counseling services; improving the odds when planning for grad school ; school size; athletic scholarships; experienced teachers; and mental health centers.
- 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List
Barraclough examines artifacts such as " remnants of wooden gaming boards, elegant antler combs, doodles
- Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz
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.
- Review of Immaculate Conception by Ling Ling Huang
Yet she secures herself a position at an art school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality
- Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
I have a senior in high school, so I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application hustle college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young person's worth could feel determined by which schools She quickly realizes that her father's oblique promises that she could teach school in their new home
- Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year
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. Ships . 05 I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school She's valedictorian, school captain, and a model student.
- Review of Playground by Richard Powers
naval base in the Pacific, crafting art as her only constant; two friends at an elite Chicago high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/25 Edition
Yet she secures herself a position at an art school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality
- Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson
In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school sleuth Stevie Bell
- Review of Nothing Like the Movies (Better Than the Movies #2) by Lynn Painter
Wes's dad dies only weeks into their first semester, Wes leaves behind his D1 baseball future, his schooling funding for coverage of and for the extent of filming and featuring the new player Wes, including a school-funded
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/8/25 Edition
storm," and she tracks back to her childhood in Kerala, India, and how her single mother founded a 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition
McPhillips's upcoming debut, a suspense novel about a working-class student in a prestigious Dublin private school Press. 02 When We Were Silent Fiona McPhillips Louise Manson is new to Dublin's most exclusive private school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/16/26 Edition
Saoirse courtesy of NetGalley and Celadon Books. 03 More Than Enough by Anna Quindlen Polly is a high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/1/26 Edition
Waldo is a seventeen-year-old senior working at Victoria's Secret after school, binge-buying cheap clothing
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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
- Review of The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
When the writer was just out of high school, she was set for a big cross-country adventure and artist's
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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, 8/4/25 Edition
Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing after his high 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, 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 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
- 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
- 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
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the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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, 10/6/25 Edition
#5) by Maureen Johnson In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition
When the writer was just out of high school, she was set for a big cross-country adventure and artist's
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
















































