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Slam!
By Walter Dean Myers. 2000
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. Junior and Senior High. 2000.Speechless
By Jennifer Mook-Sang. 2015
Jelly is as surprised as anyone when he decides that he’s going to win the annual sixth grade speech contest.…
Just like that, Joe Alton Miles, better known as Jelly (because his initials are J.A.M. and his best friend’s are P.B.), is faced with overcoming not only his terror of being in the spotlight, but also the wrath of smart, popular Victoria, who believes that the prize (like all prizes) is rightfully hers. At first, Jelly only cares about winning the awesome prize (a new tablet), but as Victoria escalates her campaign against him, Jelly begins to realize that it’s not only the prize that’s at stake, but also his reputation, his self-respect and the friendship he values most. Jelly must dig deep inside himself to find out if he’s strong enough to stand up to Victoria and show everyone what he’s really capable of. Grades 5-8. 2015.Starter for ten
By David Nicholls. 2003
The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership…
and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he also has a dark secret - a long-held, burning ambition to appear on University Challenge and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. But Brian has a whole lot of living to do before then and when he falls in love with his team-mate, he finds there's more than a spanner in the works. Includes strong language. 2003.Stand tall, Molly Lou Melon
By Patty Lovell. 2001
Special topics in calamity physics
By Marisha Pessl. 2006
Blue Van Meer, erudite daughter of an itinerant professor, settles into Stockton, North Carolina, for her senior year in an…
elite high school. But she is unprepared for the death of a favourite teacher and some startling truths about her own family. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence. Bestseller. 2006.Soup for president
By Robert Newton Peck. 1978
Rob manages Soup's campaign for class president in their small Vermont town, but they wind up in trouble as usual.…
Sequel to "Soup & me." Followed by "Soup on ice." Grades 4-7. 1978.Someday Angeline
By Louis Sachar. 1983
Angeline could read the first time she picked up a book and play the piano without lessons. But being smart…
means that the mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with her. Angeline just wants the chance to be herself, but it's only when she makes friends with a boy the kids call "Goon" and the teacher they call "Mr. Bone" that she gets that chance. Grades 4-7. c1983.Some girls are
By Courtney Summers. 2009
High-school senior Regina Afton has been what she believes is an important part of the most popular girls' clique during…
middle and high school. But when she's nearly raped by her best friend's boyfriend and she tells, she pays for it by being victimized in a hate campaign. Only her deceased psychiatrist's teenaged son seems to really care, and when she tries to take revenge on his behalf after her former friends bully him as well, things spins out of control. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. For senior high readers. 2009.Small world: an academic romance
By David Lodge. 1984
It is the conference season and love is in the air. Academics Philip Swallow, Morris Zap and Persee McGarrigle are…
on the move. It is Persee who first sees the fair, if ambiguous, Angelica and sets out to woo the lady. The quest is timeless but the obstacles are aggressively modern. Includes strong language and sex. 1984.Slot machine
By Chris Lynch. 1996
Fourteen-year-old Elvin, his two best friends, and other incoming male freshmen of a Christian high school spend three weeks at…
summer camp. The goal is to find an athletic slot for each boy. Unfortunately, as overweight Elvin sarcastically explains in letters to his mother, he's not the athletic type. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 1996.Small avalanches: and other stories
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2003
In a string of twelve short stories, the author visits the sometimes dark psyche of the teenage years, exploring the…
consequences of choices that are made. In "The Sky Blue Ball", a high-school girl is confronted by a haunting memory of childhood. In "Capricorn", a jealous teen lets her cousin go off alone with a dangerous person, aware of the terrifying possibilities. Some descriptions of sex and violence, and some strong language. Senior high readers and older. 2003.Skippy dies
By Paul Murray. 2010
Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut…
shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love? Strong language. 2010.Sidekicks
By Jack D Ferraiolo. 2011
Scott Hutchinson has an alternate identity as Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice. But with the help of his…
rival sidekick, Monkeywrench, Scott begins to question whether Phantom Justice is really a hero, which leads to a dangerous confrontation. Junior High. 2011.Shooter
By Caroline Pignat. 2016
A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only nearby unlocked room: the…
boys' washroom. There's Alice: an introverted writer, trapped in the role of big sister to her older autistic brother, Noah; Isabelle: the popular, high-achieving, student council president, whose greatest performance is her everyday life; Hogan: an ex-football player with a troubled past and a hopeless future; Xander: that socially awkward guy hiding behind the camera, whose candid pictures of school life, especially those of Isabelle, have brought him more trouble than answers. When Isabelle gets a text that says NOT A DRILL!! Shooter in the school!, suddenly, the bathroom doesn't seem so safe anymore. Especially when they learn that one of them knows more about the shooter than they realized. For junior and senior high readers. Winner of the 2017 Red Maple Fiction Award, the 2018 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award and the 2017 John Spray Mystery Award. 2016.Shadow season: a novel
By Tom Piccirilli. 2009
Ex-cop Finn was left blind by violence, but he can still see the body of his wife, Dani, and a…
crime scene that won't fade from his mind's eye. Now a professor, Finn learns that an isolated girls' prep school can be every bit as dangerous as city streets when he stumbles upon a local girl lying in a graveyard during a raging blizzard. Explicit strong language, explicit descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2009.Sexy
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2005
Darren Flynn, high school student and star swimmer, is incredibly good-looking with a perfect life, until 'the thing' happens -…
'the thing' with Mr. Tracy, his English teacher. 'The thing' was how Darren would think of it afterwards, but did it happen at all? As everything and everyone around him changes, and Darren feels he can trust no one, he searches for his identity, finding answers in the most unexpected places. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2005.School for murder
By Robert Barnard. 1984
At a second-rate English school, the students are dissatisfied, the faculty and staff depressed and the administrators addled. A student…
rebellion erupts in pranks. Finally a schoolboy is poisoned and Superintendent Pumfrey is called to investigate. 1984. Uniform title: Little victimsSaving Miss Mirabelle
By Anne Fine. 2007
Lancelot's lovely teacher, Miss Mirabelle, is in big trouble. She's told a giant whopper and unless she can come up…
with a brilliant plan, she's going to look very, very silly. Can Lancelot help this damsel in distress? Grades 2-4. 2007. Uniform title: Country pancakeSaving Francesca
By Melina Marchetta. 2003
Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys' school that has just…
started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. For junior or senior high readers. 2003.Rivales (Vie compliquée de Léa Olivier. #8.)
By Catherine Girard-Audet. 2015
L'été tire à sa fin, et Léa se prépare pour sa dernière année de secondaire. La rentrée lui réserve toutefois…
des surprises avec l'arrivée de Bianca Gosselin-Gossante, la nouvelle élève qui possède tous les talents et la confiance du monde et qui la fait sentir aussi rayonnante qu'un petit pois. Non seulement elle devra apprendre à côtoyer sa nouvelle rivale, mais Léa se verra aussi forcée de travailler côte à côte avec Maude pour l'organisation du bal de finissants, de remonter le moral de Félix qui a le coeur brisé et d'appuyer Marilou alors que celle-ci entreprend une quête pour récupérer son ex. Pour les lecteurs du collégial. Suite de "Trou de beigne", suivi de "Résolutions". 2015.