SUMMARY: The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre, coming to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil through the means you w...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the ...
From School Library JournalGrade 5-8–Johnny Maxwell, 12, thinks he's a loser. People don't seem to notice him, his parents are threatening to split up, and he's not very good at th...
Product DescriptionAn Outrageous OfferTo help her brother's struggling cosmetics company, schoolteacher Colby Wingate travels to Los Angeles for one last, desperate...
SUMMARY: One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever...Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is sett...
Amazon.com ReviewTobias Wolff's Old School is at once a celebration of literature and delicate hymn to a lost innocence of American life and art. Set in a New England prep school ....
When San Francisco attorney Dismas Hardy gets a call saying his wife never picked the kids up from school, heís worried. Frannieís a great mother. Turns out thereís a good explanat...
From School Library JournalGrade 8 Up–After drinking some vodka and taking his mom's car for a spin to his father's girlfriend's house, who just happens to be his former third-grad...
From School Library JournalGrade 7 Up—Terra's body is very nearly perfect, except for the port-wine birthmark on her left cheek, which several surgeries have failed to remove. It i...
Amazon.com ReviewDavid Quammen is a naturalist, writer, and literary scholar who can turn from William Faulkner to theories of demographic stochasticity on a dime--or a comma. Natu...