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Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional...
2) Battle dress
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of new cadet training known as the Beast.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In order to sort out the claims and counter-claims that wars bring, this book presents some unique statistics on more than 100 individual public schools in New York City. Each charter school in this group is located in the same building with a traditional public school serving the same community. Test scores show charter school students achieving proficiency on educational tests at a rate several times the rate of other schools in the same buildings....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax. Fischer Hall is busier than ever, filled with squealing thirteen- and fourteen-year-old girls attending the first ever Tania Trace Teen Rock Camp, hosted by pop sensation Tania Trace herself--who just happens to be newly married to Heather's ex-boyfriend, heartthrob...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any worse. And then her long-lost mother shows up....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot's hilarious Heather Wells mystery series.Heather Wells left the pop-idol life behind, and she's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape and her job as an assistant dorm director at a New York college. But when the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft, and then more students start turning up dead
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The nationally renowned Bard Prison Initiative demonstrates how the liberal arts can alter the landscape inside prisons by expanding access to the transformative power of American higher education. American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum....
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Keep preparing for the NYPD exam with this 53-question practice test, based on the official New York City Police Department exam format and specifications. Includes instant scoring--you'll know where you stand and in what areas you need to improve.
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Preparing for the NYPD exam? Take this 53-question practice test, based on the official New York City Police Department exam format and specifications. Includes instant scoring--you'll know where you stand and in what areas you need to improve.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Yale-trained educator whose experiences in a violent district triggered his mental illness describes how he organized an extracurricular reading program to provide a safe environment for at-risk students, including the silent daughter of an undocumented mother. Since 2016, the students have been collectively translating Don Quixote into English, taking the Spanish tale-a story about a dreamer who never gives up-and adapting it into a bilingual musical....
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Narrated by one extraordinary ten-year-old girl, this inspiring memoir tells the story of a daughter of Mexican American immigrants who finds her voice through the power of words and performance of Cervantes' Don Quixote"--Provided by publisher.
13) A northern light
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 290
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
''This first volume of the definitive edition of her fiction includes four novels and eight classic stories by the witty and provocative writer who defined a generation In 1942, Mary McCarthy provoked a scandal with her electrifying debut novel, The Company She Keeps, announcing the arrival of a major new voice in American literature. A candid, thinly-veiled portrait of the late-1930s New York intellectual scene, its penetrating gaze and creative...
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