Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me
Title | Sophomore Year Is Greek to Me PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Zeitlin |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2016-04 |
Genre | Families |
ISBN | 0147517931 |
High school sophomore Zona Lowell is reluctantly moving to Athens with her father, where she'll be forced to meet her mother's large estranged family.
Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters
Title | Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Zeitlin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0142424218 |
Smart, occasionally insecure, and ambitious 14-year-old Kelsey Finkelstein of Brooklyn embarks on her freshman year of high school in Manhattan with the intention of "rebranding" herself, but unfortunately everything she tries to do is a total disaster.
Scored
Title | Scored PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren McLaughlin |
Publisher | Random House Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2011-10-25 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0375898735 |
Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a "score" that determines their future potential. This score has the ability to get kids into colleges, grant scholarships, or destroy all hope for the above. Scored's reluctant heroine is Imani, a girl whose high score is brought down when her best friend's score plummets. Where do you draw the line between doing what feels morally right and what can mean your future? Friendship, romance, loyalty, family, human connection and human value: all are questioned in this fresh and compelling dystopian novel set in the scarily forseeable future.
Surface Tension
Title | Surface Tension PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Runyon |
Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 044024031X |
During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year, which he spends at his family's lake cottage, Luke realizes that although some things stay the same over the years, many more change.
Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel
Title | Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Maaza Mengiste |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-01-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0393076776 |
"An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement—a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut.
The Real World of College
Title | The Real World of College PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Fischman |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0262046539 |
Why higher education in the United States has lost its way, and how universities and colleges can focus sharply on their core mission. For The Real World of College, Wendy Fischman and Howard Gardner analyzed in-depth interviews with more than 2,000 students, alumni, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, and others, which were conducted at ten institutions ranging from highly selective liberal arts colleges to less-selective state schools. What they found challenged characterizations in the media: students are not preoccupied by political correctness, free speech, or even the cost of college. They are most concerned about their GPA and their resumes; they see jobs and earning potential as more important than learning. Many say they face mental health challenges, fear that they don’t belong, and feel a deep sense of alienation. Given this daily reality for students, has higher education lost its way? Fischman and Gardner contend that US universities and colleges must focus sharply on their core educational mission. Fischman and Gardner, both recognized authorities on education and learning, argue that higher education in the United States has lost sight of its principal reason for existing: not vocational training, not the provision of campus amenities, but to increase what Fischman and Gardner call “higher education capital”—to help students think well and broadly, express themselves clearly, explore new areas, and be open to possible transformations. Fischman and Gardner offer cogent recommendations for how every college can become a community of learners who are open to change as thinkers, citizens, and human beings.
Four Days of You and Me
Title | Four Days of You and Me PDF eBook |
Author | Miranda Kenneally |
Publisher | Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1492684147 |
From Miranda Kenneally, author of the beloved high school romance Hundred Oaks series, comes a funny enemies to lovers romcom about second, third...maybe even fourth chances. Every May 7th, the students at Coffee County High School take a class trip. And every year, Lulu's relationship with Alex Rouvelis gets a little more complicated. Freshman year they went from sworn enemies to more than friends after a close encounter in an escape room. It's been hard for Lulu to quit Alex ever since. Through break-ups, make-ups, and dating other people, each year's class trip brings the pair back together and forces them to confront their undeniable connection. From the science museum to Six Flags, New York City to London, Lulu learns one thing is for sure: love is the biggest trip of all. Are Lulu and Alex meant to be, or are they better apart? Other teen romance books by Miranda Kenneally: Catching Jordan Stealing Parker Things I Can't Forget Racing Savannah Breathe, Annie, Breathe Jesse's Girl Defending Taylor Coming Up for Air