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Go jump in the pool! / by Korman, Gordon.;
The students from York Academy keep beating Macdonald Hall's swim team. Bruno and Boots think if they had a swimming pool at their school, they could practice more and be able to win. So Bruno Walton has a brilliant plan to raise fifty grand to build a swimming pool.LSC
Subjects: Walton, Bruno (Fictitious character); O'Neal, Boots (Fictitious character); Boarding schools; Swimming pools;
© [2013], c2003., Scholastic Canada,
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Omar rising / by Saeed, Aisha,author.; Adam, Vikas,narrator.; Playaway Products, LLC,issuing body.;
Narrated by Vikas Adam.Grades 5 - 9.In this compelling companion to New York Times best seller Amal Unbound, Amal's friend Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school. Omar knows his scholarship to Ghalib Academy Boarding School is a game changer, providing him - the son of a servant - with an opportunity to improve his station in life. He can't wait to experience all the school has to offer, especially science club and hopefully the soccer team; but when he arrives, his hopes are dashed. First-year scholarship students aren't allowed to join clubs or teams - and not only that, they have to earn their keep doing menial chores. At first, Omar is dejected - but then he gets angry when he learns something even worse - the school deliberately "weeds out" kids like him by requiring them to get significantly higher grades than kids who can pay tuition, making it nearly impossible for scholarship students to graduate. It's a good thing that in his favorite class, he's learned the importance of being stubbornly optimistic. So with the help of his tightknit new group of friends - and with the threat of expulsion looming over him - he sets out to do what seems impossible: Change a rigged system.
Subjects: Social problem fiction.; School fiction.; Children's audiobooks.; Boarding schools; Schools; Social status; Poverty; Classism;
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A very private school : a memoir / by Spencer, Charles Spencer,Earl,1964-author.;
"A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt at aged eight, viscerally describing the intense pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all. Exploring the long-lasting impact of his experiences, Spencer presents a candid reckoning with his past and a reclamation of his childhood"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Spencer, Charles Spencer, Earl, 1964-; Boarding schools; Teacher-student relationships;
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Down a dark hall [videorecording] / by Cortés, Rodrigo,1973-film director.; Goldbach, Michael,1949-screenwriter.; Sparling, Chris,1977-screenwriter.; Fuhrman, Isabelle,1997-actor.; Meyer, Stephenie,1973-film producer.; Moroles, Victoria,actor.; Robb, AnnaSophia,1993-actor.; Silver, Noah,actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Duncan, Lois,1934-2016.Down a dark hall.; Summit Entertainment,publisher.; Temple Hill Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Fickle Fish (Firm),production company.; Nostromo Pictures (Firm),production company.;
Annasophia Robb, Isabelle Fuhrman, Victoria Moroles, Noah Silver, Taylor Russell, Rosie Day, Uma Thurman, Kirsty Mitchell.Kit Gordy, a new student at the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, confronts the institution's supernatural occurrences and dark powers of its headmistress.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Duncan, Lois, 1934-2016.; Boarding schools; Supernatural; Teenage girls;
For private home use only.
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The sea elephants / by Akella, Shastri,author.;
"For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe. Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling theater troupe performing the Hindu myths of his childhood. Welcomed by the other storytellers, Shagun thrives, easily embodying mortals and gods, men and women, and living on the road, where his father can't catch him. When Shagun meets Marc, a charming photographer, he seems to have found the love he always longed for, too. But not even Marc can save him from his lingering shame, nor his father's ever-present threat to send him to a conversion center. As Shagun's past begins to engulf him once again, he must decide if he is strong enough to face what he fears most, and to boldly claim his own happiness. Utterly immersive and spellbinding, The Sea Elephants is both dark and beautiful, harrowing and triumphant. An ode to the redemptive joys of art, Shastri Akella's debut novel is a celebration of hard-won love-of others and for ourselves"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Gay fiction.; Novels.; Boarding schools; Fathers and sons; Gay men; Traveling theater;
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Fairy tail ending / by Selfors, Suzanne.;
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Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Fairy tales; Characters and characteristics in literature; Princesses; Mermaids; Boarding schools;
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Lessons at the school by the sea / by Colgan, Jenny,author.; container of (work):Colgan, Jenny.Lessons.;
"School is out, following a bit of saucy scandal at Downey House ... Beloved high school teacher Maggie Adair had been comfortably, if somewhat ambivalently, engaged to her dependable long-distance boyfriend Stan. But in the heat of summer, Maggie's attraction to her colleague David McDonald has caught fire. Now both are facing an uncertain future as they try to figure out how to stay committed to their careers--and each other. Meanwhile, the girls of Downey House--mercurial Fliss, glamorous Alice, and shy, hard-working Simone--have had long summers at home, which weren't quite the respite they had been hoping for. But the new school year is thankfully here, and it will bring new pupils and lots of fresh challenges for students and teachers alike at the school by the sea"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Chick lit.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Boarding schools; Man-woman relationships; Teachers; Teachers; Women teachers;
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She was the quiet one / by Campbell, Michele,1962-author.;
"When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different. The school brings out a rivalry between them that few ever knew existed. And the school itself has a dark underbelly: of privileged kids running unchecked and uninhibited; of rituals and traditions that are more sinister than they seem; of wealth and entitlement that can only lead to disaster. For Sarah Donovan, wife of an ambitious teacher who is determined to rise through the ranks, Odell also seems like the best thing that could happen to their small family. But how well does she really know her husband? What lengths will he go to to achieve his goals? And when one dark night ends in murder, who is guilty, who knows the truth, and who has been in on it all along?"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Boarding schools; Murder; Twin sisters; Teachers; Hazing; Secrecy;
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Rizzoli & Isles : last to die : a novel / by Gerritsen, Tess.;
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Boarding schools; Isles, Maura (Fictitious character); Murder; Policewomen; Rizzoli, Jane, Detective (Fictitious character); Women forensic scientists;
© c2012., Ballantine Books,
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The downward spiral / by Pearson, Ridley.;
Ages 8 up.LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Moriarty, Professor (Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Brothers and sisters; Fathers; Boarding schools;
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