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Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Coasting at school gets Casey into trouble until he finds a way to use his talents and passions to turn underachievement upside down. Includes tips and information to help parents, teachers, counselors, and other adults foster dialogue with any child wrestling with underachievement"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Mary is having an existential crisis. She's a good student, she never gets in trouble, and she is searching for the meaning of life. She always thought she'd find it in a perfect score on the SATs. But by junior year, Mary isn't so sure anymore. The first time, it's an accident. She forgets to do a history assignment. She even crosses "history essay" off in her pristine planner. And then: Nothing happens. She doesn't burst into flames, the world...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ana is an honor student obsessed with being successful at everything academic, Clayton is her thirteen-year-old genius brother, the youngest student in their high school and Zak is gamer who is forced to join the quiz team by his teacher--but when Clayton sneaks off to a science fiction convention in Seattle while they are all there for a quiz bowl tournament, Ana is forced to rely on the unreliable Zak to find him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Introduce your little ones to the celebratory milestone of graduation and how one's family will always support dreams and goals, in both English and Spanish! Inspired by Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts, particularly the Aztec codices, this almost-textless ... [book] celebrates the perseverance it takes to graduate and how family will always be there to see you from the beginning to the end--walking across the stage" -- Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Sasha Johnson-Sun and her ex-best friend, Ezra Davis-Goldberg, are tied for valedictorian and the scholarship attached, they agree on a best-of-three, winner-take-all academic bet that forces them to reexamine why they drifted apart--and figure out who they've become since.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Both playful and wryly observant, Ed Lin's YA-debut explores coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora while navigating relationships through race, class, and young love. David Tung, our nerd-hero, is a Chinese American high-school student who works in his family's restaurant, competes for top grades at his regular high school located in an upscale, Asian-majority New Jersey suburb, and attends weekend Chinese school in NYC's working-class Chinatown. While...
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