schools

Rhyming text describes how a night guard arrives at a tired elementary school as the sun sets and makes her rounds checking locks, shutting off lights, and tucking in chairs. However, one little turtle escapes its tank and the guard follows clues through the school to find it and put it to bed.

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently.

Everyone thinks the new kid at Zombie's middle school is really cool, but the more time Zombie spends with him, the more trouble he gets into. And Zombie's best friend Steve is worried that Zombie is dressing and acting different now. The new kid just might be a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Fourth-grader Jada's best friend moved away but a class project on rocks and minerals, her favorite topic, could mean new friends. For Jada, rocks are easier to find than friends. Or are they?.

"Children, I present to you, Liouba Gogol, said M. Dubeuf as she entered the room. No one laughed. It was as if a snow shower had suddenly hit the room. I thought about all the times I had called Djzone a gogol and I was ashamed. I was not the only one. We were collectively victims of a reversal of meaning. From that second, gogol [no longer meant] stupid, [it] meant a meter seventy, a face in triangle, rosy cheeks, green eyes, a half-undone blond bun, a very red mouth and the long hands of a pianist. From the moment the most beautiful girl in the world arrives in her class, Sandra, the narrator of this story, knows that nothing will be the same..."--Translated from the back cover.

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Amelia Bedelia's school, the whole town throws a party and a secret time capsule that was buried an entire century before will finally be dug up and opened.

"Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right.Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he starts something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and there's a magic-eating monster running around, wearing Simon's face. Baz would be having a field day with all this, if he were here -- it's their last year at the Watford School of Magicks, and Simon's infuriating nemesis didn't even bother to show up"--.

"Eleven-year-old Tom the Vam-Wolf-Zom meets the zombie who bit him, who is a pretty nice guy, but even the nicest monster can't help Tom with middle school conundrums like band arguments, former bullies, and his first kiss"--Provided by publisher.

"Sharp, brilliantly plotted, and totally engrossing."--KAREN M. MCMANUS, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying"A crafty, dark, and disturbing story."--KATHLEEN GLASGOW, New York Times bestselling author of Girl In Pieces "A little bit Riverdale and a little bit Veronica Mars."--RILEY SAGER, bestselling author of Final GirlsFrom the author of The Darkest Corners and Little Monsters comes an all-new edge-of-your-seat thriller set in upstate New York about an eerie sequence of seemingly unrelated events that leaves five cheerleaders dead.There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook.First there was the car accident--two girls dead after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls were killed by the man next door. The police shot him, so no one will ever know his reasons. Monica's sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. No one wanted to be reminded of the girls they'd lost.That was five years ago. Now the faculty and students at Sunnybrook High want to remember the lost cheerleaders. But for Monica, it's not that easy. She just wants to forget.Only, Monica's world is starting to unravel. There are the letters in her stepdad's desk, an unearthed, years-old cell phone, a strange new friend at school. . . . Whatever happened five years ago isn't over. Some people in town know more than they're saying. And somehow, Monica is at the center of it all.There are no more cheerleaders in Sunnybrook, but that doesn't mean anyone else is safe.More Praise for Kara Thomas:"Gripping from start to finish . . . with twists that left me shocked."--VICTORIA AVEYARD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen"A disturbing portrait of how bad news and gossip can curdle when mixed together."--OPRAH.COM"You'll be up all night tearing through the pages."--BUSTLE.

The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.