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James, Kendra

Summary: "Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, KENDRA JAM

McKay, Milena

Summary: "A chance encounter. An unforgettable night. And back home, trouble is brewing on the remote island of Three Dragons, where nothing feels like it used to. Alone and lonely, Sam Threadneedle wishes upon a star, hoping for change. But when said change comes, it's with a roar and not a whimper. Torn between loyalty and lust, Sam is forced to re-evaluate everything. Can she and the Home of Dragons...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [Name of publisher not identified] 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCK

Duncan, Arne

Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUN

Baldwin, Richard L.

Summary: From the Publisher's Website: Lou and Maggie find themselves in the golf Mecca of the mid-west, Gaylord, Michigan. Here, they learn that a Director of Special Education has died on the 14th tee of the Marsh Ridge Golf Resort. A murder mystery weekend is in progress at the resort at the same time as the murders, which confuses all. Lou and Maggie work through a series of subplots to discover who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Buttonwood Press 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

Brown, Rita Mae.

Summary: When a faculty member of the local prep school is murdered, the headmistress and "Sister" Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds at Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, work together to uncover a killer. It seems the slaying may have been politically motivated, as students were demonstrating to call attention to the role of slavery in the school's past. With the annual hunt ball approaching, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRO

Quinlan, Skye

Summary: Harper McKinley is many things: a band geek, the daughter of the school dean, the daughter of the Republican presidental candidate... and the alleged owner of a lesbian profile on Tinder. Since Tinder profiles are forbidden for students at her school, and being gay is not in line with the family values of her father's political party, Harper faces serious consequences on two fronts if anyone...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co., Macmillan 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUI

Brown, Rita Mae.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

Summary: Comedy about a power struggle between two high school administrators who are vying for the top job of principal.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VIC

Summary: In this provocative program, high school students offer a teen perspective on violence and its day-to-day impact at school, at home, and in the community. Opposed to the violence of which they have been a part, these young men and women speak their minds on topics including the causes of violent behavior, the effects of dysfunctional families, bullying and mob mentality, and the fear of being...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Patterson, James

Summary: "Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC PAT

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PAT

Coleman, Reed Farrel

Summary: When a popular cheerleader dies of a suspected overdose, Police Chief Stone battles school administrators, teachers, distrustful students, and overprotective parents as he tries to unravel the drug supply chain and expose the criminals behind it.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Coleman 2019

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