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1) The teacher
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"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Eve, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...
2) Shooter
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A school lockdown brings five very different high school students together in an unlocked boys' washroom. Then they learn that there is a shooter in the school, and the washroom is not safe anymore.
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From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could.
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk...
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk...
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A NEW YORK TIMES, TIME, GQ, Vulture, and WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK of the YEAR
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Winner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station,...
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
Winner of the Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station,...
8) Fame
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During a sweltering summer, Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he loves who committed it. Dills and his mom have returned to Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor behind. But it's impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate, it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when the shooter came in. But he won't talk...
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Criterion collection volume 905
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Five teenagers with nothing in common spend a Saturday detention together in the school library, and by 4 p.m. they've bared their souls to each other and become good friends.
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In every generation volume 1
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"Follow the next generation of Scoobies and Slayers who must defeat a powerful new evil"--Provided by publisher.
13) Reversal
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"A social-drama set in an alternate time-line where Caucasians are the racially oppressed minority, Reversal follows the romance of two high-school students: Sammy and Ella, one from a rich African-American family, and the other from poor white trash. Both Sammy and Ella overcome prejudice and bullying from the dysfunctional families and environments and bring with them a little bit of change"--www.imdb.com.
15) The inhabitant
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"A series of supernatural events reveal a dark truth behind a tormented teenager."--www.imdb.com.
16) Overdrive
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When Jake is involved in a street-racing accident, he struggles to do the right thing.
17) Spare parts
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"Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT"--From www.imdb.com.
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Jane Austen's Emma meets The Rosie Project in this quirky, irresistible, romantic comedy from Sarah Strohmeyer, the author of Smart Girls Get What They Want.
Addie Emerson doesn't believe in love. Not for herself anyway. With one year left of high school, she's more interested in snagging a full scholarship to Harvard than a full-time boyfriend.
That doesn't mean she's oblivious to the ways of the heart. Or, rather, the head. Because after months...
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Alison Sanger and Ethan Molloy have competed on almost everything: AP classes, the school paper, community service. Both over-achieving seniors have their sights on valedictorian and Harvard, so they share all the same classes and extracurriculars. When the principal assigns them the task of co-planning a previous class's ten-year reunion, with the promise of a recommendation for Harvard if they do, Ethan and Alison are willing to endure one more...
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Brave and brilliant volume no. 22
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John Stevenson is late for his high school Alternate Education class because he has been at the Health Unit undergoing testing for STDs. When he finally shows up, a series of apparently minor coincidences set the stage for a confrontation with the RCMP that leaves John battered and without cigarettes in a Seclusion Room at the Prince George Regional Hospital. Here, John has time to think about the long arc of violence and drugs that brought him to...
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