The Last Academy

Author : Anne Applegate
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545503779
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Academy written by Anne Applegate and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is this prep school preparing them for? Camden Fisher arrives at boarding school haunted by a falling-out with her best friend back home. But the manicured grounds of Lethe Academy are like nothing Cam has ever known. There are gorgeous, preppy boys wielding tennis rackets, and circles of girls with secrets to spare. Only . . . something is not quite right. One of Cam's new friends mysteriously disappears, but the teachers don't seem too concerned. Cam wakes up to strangers in her room, who then melt into the night. She is suddenly plagued by odd memories, and senses there might be something dark and terrible brewing. But what? The answer will leave Cam--and readers--stunned and breathless, in this thrilling debut novel.

Author : Anne Osterlund
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101162767
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academy 7 written by Anne Osterlund and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a past too terrible to speak of, and a bleak, lonely future ahead of her, Aerin Renning is shocked to find she has earned a place at the most exclusive school in the universe. Aerin excels at Academy 7 in all but debate, where Dane Madousin?son of one of the most powerful men in the Alliance? consistently outtalks her. Fortunately Aerin consistently outwits him at sparring. They are at the top of their class until Dane jeopardizes everything and Aerin is unintentionally dragged down with him. When the pair is given a joint punishment, an unexpected friendship?and romance?begins to form. But Dane and Aerin both harbor dangerous secrets, and the two are linked in ways neither of them could ever have imagined. . . .

Author : Andrew Trees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919264
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Academy X written by Andrew Trees and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Academy X, an ethical wonderland in which up is down, right is wrong, and parents and students will stop at nothing (including lying, plagiarizing, and even seduction to name a few) in orderto get into the Ivy League. Caught in the middle is John Spencer, a bumbling but loveable English teacher struggling through the final weeks of his spring semester. But keeping focused on a Jane Austen seminar proves problematic when a His crush on the sexy school librarian andas well as a pending promotion threaten to divert his attentionare threatening to sink him in a sea of academic intrigue. Things become even more complicated when the college counseler asks John to lie (or at least exaggerate) in a recommendation letter for the very student who he's just discovered is a plagiarizer!And things are only about to get worse for John, who discovers that no price is too high to achieve a coveted admission to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton-even if that includes his own disgrace. Witty and rollicking, Academy X is a priceless peek into New York City's top private schools-indeed into elite schools all over the country.where parents risk all for their child's academic.

Author : Robert Pondiscio
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533753
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How The Other Half Learns written by Robert Pondiscio and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

Author : Jennifer Brozek
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645406814
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Salton Academy written by Jennifer Brozek and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR The Outbreak happened just over three months ago. The Salton Academy has become a rare sanctuary for those few students who remained behind over fall break while the rest of the world fell into ruins. But all is not well within these hallowed walls. As winter approaches, cracks are revealed in the academy's foundations: someone is stealing food from the dwindling stores, another is taking advantage of a captive audience, and yet others have banded together and are thinking about mutiny, even murder. One thing's for certain — a supply run must be made soon, or everyone will starve before winter's end. Then there’s the matter of the headmaster’s son and his undead dog… The Last Days of Salton Academy is a classic tale of horror in the spirit of Night of the Living Dead meets Lord of the Flies, featuring an ensemble cast and written by Hugo Award-nominated award-winning author, Jennifer Brozek. Praise for The Last Days of Salton Academy “If Lord of the Flies had occurred during a zombie outbreak, it would read something like this. A bloody good tale you can really sink your teeth into.” —Timothy W. Long, author of the Z-Risen series “The Last Days of Salton Academy is a delightful character study which combined boarding school antics with the survival horror of a post-apocalypse thriller. The characters are fresh, the dynamics interesting, and the story engaging from beginning to end. It is a YA story I heartily recommend.” —C.T. Phipps, author of Esoterrorism and Wraith Knight “As much as I love all things undead, what kept me turning pages wasn’t the zombie horde, but something far more horrible: the students and staff of a pretentious prep school. The Last Days of Salton Academy is compulsively readable—I devoured it in one sitting. With a cast of all-too-believable characters and a set of ever-ratcheting disasters, this novella is guaranteed to keep you up past your bedtime.” —Wendy N. Wagner, author of Starspawn and Skinwalkers “The Last Days of Salton Academy is a dark, twisted rollercoaster of a book. Jennifer Brozek knocks it out of the park.” —Stephen Blackmoore, author of City of the Lost and Broken Souls

Author : Christopher L. Caterine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691200203
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaving Academia written by Christopher L. Caterine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for grad students and academics who want to find fulfilling careers outside higher education. With the academic job market in crisis, 'Leaving Academia' helps grad students and academics in any scholarly field find satisfying careers beyond higher education. The book offers invaluable advice to visiting and adjunct instructors ready to seek new opportunities, to scholars caught in "tenure-trap" jobs, to grad students interested in nonacademic work, and to committed academics who want to support their students and contingent colleagues more effectively. Providing clear, concrete ways to move forward at each stage of your career change, even when the going gets tough, 'Leaving Academia' is both realistic and hopeful.

Author : Autumn Kalquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781687222152
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantis Academy written by Autumn Kalquist and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is one secret society away from extinction.The children of Atlantis use magic to keep us safe.If they make it through the Academy.Hi, I'm Lyric. And I'm kind of a mess.ADHD, that's me.I'm a high school drop-out, late everywhere I go, and one screw-up away from being homeless.I'm a loner, and I like it that way. Who needs friends when you have a Redwood forest nearby? Trees never bully me like the kids did at school. Or get drunk and throw things at my head.After my mom died, I figured life couldn't get much worse.I thought it might even get better.Ha.The universe has a great sense of humor.I should've listened to the rumors about evil spirits. About the angry, ancient magical creatures haunting our small Oregon Coast town. But did I?No. That was my first mistake. And it might be my last. 'Cause now I'm in a battle for my life.A whole new world has opened up... a magical world I don't understand. And the blood in my veins says I belong here. But I have to prove myself to save myself.And when have I ever done that?Atlantis Academy is a unique new series that weaves together an elite college of magic with the ancient myth of Atlantis. If you love quirky characters, magic, fantasy, and a story filled with plenty of mystery, thrills, and a romance, you'll love going on this adventure with Lyric!

Author : M. A. Larson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142427144
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennyroyal Academy written by M. A. Larson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Comparison to the Harry Potter series seems inevitable . . . It is a breathtakingly exciting novel.”—The New York Times A girl from the forest arrives in a bustling kingdom with no name and no idea why she is there, only to find herself at the center of a world at war. She enlists at Pennyroyal Academy, where princesses and knights are trained to battle the two great menaces of the day: witches and dragons. There, given the name “Evie,” she must endure a harsh training regimen under the steel glare of her Fairy Drillsergeant, while also navigating an entirely new world of friends and enemies. As Evie learns what it truly means to be a princess, she realizes surprising things about herself and her family, about human compassion and inhuman cruelty. And with the witch forces moving nearer, she discovers that the war between princesses and witches is much more personal than she could ever have imagined. Set in Grimm’s fairytale world and ideal for non-princesses and princess fans alike, M.A. Larson’s Pennyroyal Academy masterfully combines adventure, humor, and magical mischief. “No one rescues Pennyroyal princesses; they rescue themselves.”—Reese Witherspoon

Author : Shannon Hale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619634864
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters written by Shannon Hale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller In this third book in New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale's Princess Academy series, Miri goes from student . . . to teacher! Miri has spent a year at the king's palace, learning all about being a proper princess. But instead of returning to her beloved Mount Eskel, Miri is ordered to journey to a distant swamp and start a princess academy for three sisters, cousins of the royal family. Unfortunately, Astrid, Felissa, and Sus are more interested in hunting and fishing than becoming princesses. As Miri spends more time with the sisters, she realizes the king and queen's interest in them hides a long-buried secret. She must rely on her own strength and intelligence to unravel the mystery, protect the girls, complete her assignment, and finally make her way home. Don't miss any of these other books from New York Times bestselling author Shannon Hale: The Princess Academy trilogy Princess Academy Princess Academy: Palace of Stone Princess Academy: The Forgotten Sisters The Books of Bayern The Goose Girl Enna Burning River Secrets Forest Born Book of a Thousand Days Dangerous Graphic Novels with Dean Hale Illustrated by Nathan Hale Rapunzel's Revenge Calamity Jack Illustrated by Victoria Ying Diana: Princess of the Amazons Illustrated by LeUyen Pham Real Friends Best Friends The Princess in Black series For Adults Austenland Midnight in Austenland The Actor and the Housewife

Author : Alex Lidell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949347142
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Chance Academy written by Alex Lidell and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foster girl. Trash. That's all I am to the world. And that's fine. After surviving New Jersey's foster system, I can survive anything. Even taking a dangerous job from a tall, gorgeous stranger so I can keep my little sister safe-a job that goes very, very wrong.Suddenly I'm facing a brutal choice: a decade in jail or four years as a ward of Talonswood Reform Academy-a place with an all too perfect correction record. A place that makes bootcamp look like a spa.But Talonswood and its cruel cadets are far more than they seem, and so are the four men who rule it. Ellis. Asher. Reese. Cassis. Powerful, impossibly beautiful men who ignite a wildfire inside me-and who will stop at nothing to make my life a living hell.But it turns out I'm more than I seem, too. And I'm not going down without a fight.LAST CHANCE ACADEMY is a full length dark reverse harem paranormal romance. This is the first of four books in Immortals of Talonswood, a new series from Amazon's top-100 author Alex Lidell. With hot shifter-fae, delicious vampires, one lone witch, Talonswood isn't your normal reform school.