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"Eden was its name. "An alternative school for happy children." But it closed in disgrace after a student's suicide. Now it's a care home, its grounds neglected and overgrown. Gloria Harkness is its only neighbor, staying close to her son who lives there in the home, lighting up her life and breaking her heart each day. When a childhood friend turns up at her door, Gloria doesn't hesitate before asking him in. He claims a girl from Eden is stalking...
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Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys lives by a few simple rules, all rooted in a world of brazen retaliatory violence. Only his infant son is excluded from his hard-shell persona. Xtra hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him and his younger siblings and he just might get his wish when he's thrust into the world of the HIVE, an unorthodox alternative school full of other discarded boys.
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Loosely based on Porter Shreve's own childhood, When the White House Was Ours is the atmospheric and captivating story of a family's struggle to stay together against great odds.
It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into a crumbling...
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"At Creighton Fischer's new school in the town of Breton, he sees the sign: 'Lane Oslo School of Educational Reform'--and he gets it. He's a L.O.S.E.R. In the classroom, he meets other teens who, like him, are leftovers, misfits, several without family or skills or confidence. Creighton and his classmates have one advantage: support and understanding from a teacher who encourages them to feel good about themselves. So when they learn that she's leaving...
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Is your child depressed, unmotivated, resentful, or angry when it's time to go to school each morning? Does your child come home from school and share stories of being bullied, made fun of, or just plain feeling unheard or understood? Does your child possess unusual talents that go unrecognized or unused at school--or, worse, is he or she seen as strange, weird, or abnormal by teachers or peers? f you answered yes to any of these questions, or your...
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In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admisstion are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.
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Billy Jack is put on trial for two killings he committed in self-defense while protecting the Freedom School from small-town Arizona bigots. He is convicted and sent to prison, but the Freedom School thrives under Jean Roberts. When Billy Jack is paroled for good behavior, he returns home to explore his tribal spiritual heritage just as the school comes under fire from local officials.
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"ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful and ultimately hopeful reflection on teaching teens while they await sentencing. Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, ALL DAY recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and actress who had done occasional...
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"Gifted and twice-exceptional students often struggle to fit in traditional classrooms, and homeschooling isn't always an option. Enter Micro-Schools: an educational option bridging the gap. Micro-schools offer personalized learning in a school setting led by instructors who understand the nuances and needs of gifted and 2e kids. Starting your own micro-school may seem daunting, but a successful micro-school doesn't require a huge budget or the latest...
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"This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the Black-white academic achievement gap throughout America"--
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Fifth-grader Kat Greene is struggling with her boy-crazy best friend, her lame role in the production of Harriet the Spy at her progressive New York City school, and her mother's preoccupation with cleanliness--a symptom of her worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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