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Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland's potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children--and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called "Famine Irish"...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
On the surface, Rory is the underdog--a scholarship kid, teased for her weight, but we soon find out that she will go to any length to secure the lead role in her school's senior musical. She is charming, conniving, and brutally ambitious.You will find yourself rooting for her, while simultaneously dreading what she might do!
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Newburgh, NY-a city of about 30,000 residents, located roughly sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley-is a quintessential example of a small, under-resourced, majority-minority, post-industrial city that has struggled to transition into the service, technology, and knowledge-based economy. Like many other similarly sized cities throughout the American northeast and midwest, white flight and decades of disinvestment left it...
Author
Series
Liars Society volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she's excited to be in the same world as her dad...But Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack's wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre...But Jack has a secret of his own...one with the...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"EXTRA PRACTICE FOR AN EXCELLENT SCORE! Get all the prep you need to ace the Digital PSAT with this comprehensive book of PSAT practice. Includes 1 full-length adaptive digital practice test online, 1 full-length practice test plus 300+ drill questions in the book, and everything you need to know about National Merit Scholarships."--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Etienne Bernay, enfant terrible of French ballet, arrives. documenting his search for one special student who will receive a full scholarship to the Ballet de Paris Academie, three mothers, amidst backstabbing, jealousy, disappointment and triumph, reveal the sacrifices they've made for their children, for friendship and for art.
Author
Publisher
Little Brown Ink
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Camp Launchpad! Summer is in full swing, which means a new class of kids has arrived to attend the best space camp in Florida...or at least, it used to be. With growing competition from the trendy rival camp next door, Camp Launchpad needs all the help it can get to keep its doors open. Campers Val, Mark, and Pete are here for very different reasons: following in the footsteps of an astronaut mom, living up to expectations as a vice president's...
Author
Publisher
Third World Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Edmund W. Gordon is one of America's most influential advocates for improving education of children from underprivileged backgrounds. Primarily focused on how African American students can triumph over significant odds against success to become better achievers, he has spent much of his life's work developing strategies to close "The Achievement Gap" and use knowledge and understanding to develop equity in and through education and improve the...
Author
Publisher
Wonderbooks
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
Español
Description
"Ha llegado la hora de cambiar el cuento de hadas. Liz Lighty siempre ha sido demasiado negra, demasiado pobre y demasiado diferente para Campbell, el pueblo en el que vive, donde todas las chicas están obsesionadas con ser la reina del baile. Sin embargo, Liz tiene un plan para salir de allí: entrar en la banda de música de la prestigiosa Universidad de Pennington y conseguir una beca para estudiar Medicina. Pero su plan no sale bien y a Liz solo...