With low grades and bad advice from friends and family, Lionel Shepard has a hard time achieving his dream of playing basketball for Bluford High.
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Rife with Gordon Korman’s signature humor, Schooled is a heartwarming story about friendship, kindness, and finding your place—which may not always be where you think it is.
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Good friends are all they can ever be. Or...these teachers just might end up getting schooled — by love.
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A contemplative assessment of American public education, as well as a call for school reform, is presented through the story of a former teacher from a rural Vermont high school that has been negatively impacted by standardized testing, ...
Ava Winters is young, beautiful, and the heiress to Napa's prized Starling Vineyards.