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- Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I liked Curtis Sittenfeld's peek at prep schools in Prep, and I loved her short story collection You
- Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land tracks Jade's schooling, found family, artistic expression, and her social position
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
She's valedictorian, school captain, and model student.
- Review of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
history such as that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The Paris Novel is the first novel by food writer, memoir author, food critic, and James Beard award-winner
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding a Wallflower, Borderland Ladies, The London School
- Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
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 Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
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. Solomon's young adult novel feels authentically set in high school, yet offers appeal for anyone who
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
He went to grad school, he went to therapy, and he began to let go of the guilt surrounding the idea
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
role in her view of the world and how she approached her life--and resulted in her expulsion from high school
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà.
- Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
teachers, smoking cigars, and drinking jug wine, among other things) appear on the scene of the Sunday School
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school
- Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material
- Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman
like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding
- Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
Ava Glass is a pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, author of the YA Night School thrillers.
- Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
He explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality to consider more complex issues, including
- Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry
emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years of schooling
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- 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
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
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, 10/31/22 Edition
Nora's focused on her work, her small-town life, her kids' sports and their school play, and her longtime
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
In high school, Helen Zheng's life was upended by the tragic, sudden death of her sister Michelle.
- Review of How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Cristina Fernandez
and Columbia premed undergrad Astrid is dating Max Martin, a sweet, nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/1/22 Edition
published tomorrow, our main protagonist Astrid is dating Max Martin, a nerdy boy she knew back in high school
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
Mary Pearl is home, she’s at school, she’s home, she’s at school, she’s home.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/25/22 Edition
Friends, written before the Covid-19 pandemic, centers around a group of women, friends since medical school
- 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, 8/15/22 Edition
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
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 More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
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, 3/17/21 Edition
reading the newest book from Naomi Novik, which showcases excellent dark humor within a deadly magical school Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school
- Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year
In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school sleuth Stevie Bell
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
young so their families can gain their dowries, and where girls are frequently forced to stop attending school Adunni is living through tremendous hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
James crafts a tender, funny story with zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town
- Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin
Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
When May's husband became ill, her son's spirit flagged in school, and her own work stress began taking
- Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
In 1937, history student Ludmila Pavlichenko is a young lady balancing school, the care of her young
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition
history--including that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt
I read Mary Sharratt's Revelations over the course of this "school year" with my women's group.
- Review of The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin
The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
tightly knit community; A Deadly Education, the first in Naomi Novik's series about a dark, magical school Naomi Novik A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters, and Toward the end of high school they begin to hesitantly connect.
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
with financial pressures and relationship issues, while young Vera tries to simply make a friend at school
- Another Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
Now he's about to set off on a cross-country road trip to track down his high-school sweetheart following
- 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
- Six Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
with financial pressures and relationship issues, while young Vera tries to simply make a friend at school
- Review of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange
years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school

















































