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By Michel Tremblay. 1994
Marcel and his cousin experience the mystical arrival of summer on the final day of exams at Ecole Saint-Stanislas. While…
Marcel is in the class for "slow learners," his cousin is part of the "gifted" program. It is only towards the end of exams that Marcel's cousin recognizes Marcel's own special type of genius. Sequel to "The fat woman next door is pregnant." 1994. Uniform title: Premier quartier de la lune.By Ed Kavanagh. 2001
On a beautiful morning out in the meadow, Nipper Mooney experiences both the phenomenon of lost time and the death…
of his father. Soon he is sent to All Angels, a rigid Catholic school where Nipper, a sensitive and inquisitive boy, only finds more questions. He survives this claustrophobic and often violent world by becoming a reader, a dreamer, and developing a scrappy toughness, as he journeys through the beauties and horrors of childhood. Some strong language. 2001.By Michael Hingston. 2013
The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a…
news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole. It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An exposé about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree? 2013.By Krista Bridge. 2013
Audrey has always wanted to attend George Eliot Academy, the private school where her mother has taught for a decade.…
But when she is accepted, she finds that the school is filled with bullying and intolerance. Her mother, Ruth, meanwhile, navigates the politics in the teachers' lounge while fighting the frustrations of adulthood and its fading opportunities. c2013.By Gervase Phinn. 2008
Awkward teachers, pompous school governors and fearsome lollipop ladies occasionally make Gervase Phinn's hectic job as a school inspector in…
the Yorkshire Dales more than difficult. But for Gervase, the focus, and challenge, remains the frankly spoken children. However, the new school year doesn't get off to the best start after a teacher intimates that Gervase has let him and his school down. Sequel to "Up and down in the dales". 2008.By Catherine Cookson. 1958
To secure a job for her father on her benefactor's farm, nine-year-old Mary Ann Shaughnessy goes to boarding school. Once…
there she encounters loneliness, acquires enemies, and receives tearstained letters from her brother hinting that their father is having an affair. Sequel to "The Lord and Mary Ann" (DC24711). 1958. (Mary Ann Shaughnessy series ; 3)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.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.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.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.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.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 victimsBy Michael Stein. 1995
The normal traumas of high school life beset Will Sterling in the aftermath of his father's death. Will's romantic involvements…
with classmate Sara and his fortyish mother-surrogate, Terri, further complicate matters. "Confused by nearly everything," Will uses math and basketball to cope. 1995.By Dominique Demers. 1999
Perline Pompette, princesse, se pose une très grave question: que lui arrivera-t-il lorsqu'elle grandira et qu'elle ira à l'école? Au…
fond de son coeur, elle connaît peut-être déjà la réponse... Pour les 5 ans et plus. c1999.By Martin Clavet. 2014
" L'enfant qui entame la rédaction de ce journal intime est innocent. Fraîchement débarqué dans son nouveau quartier, il lui…
tarde de rencontrer ses camarades de classe. Mais dès le premier jour, dans la cour d'école, c'est son bourreau qui l'attend. Le monde coloré qui l'habite s'assombrit à mesure que les insultes se transforment en coups, les coups en torture; les phrases sautillantes du début font place à une écriture exsangue où la candeur ne convainc plus. C'est un enfant rompu qui, à la fin, noircit les pages de son journal, son seul ami, son frère de papier . " -- 4e de couv.By Zoe Heller. 2003
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her…
staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba is special, and before too long Sheba is involved in an illicit affair with a pupil. 2003.By Armand Hoog. 1991
Dans les universités américaines, Chateaubriand, c'est le domaine réservé du professeur Milius qui entretient avec l'auteur des Mémoires d'outre-tombe une…
surprenante relation de fascination et de mépris. Ses étudiants de Kingston le savent, qui ont décidé de se venger et de venger leur amie Marianne, morte peu après avoir été congédiée par ce Milius, son amant, quadragénaire imbu de ses succès féminins. Sous prétexte de livrer au Maître des inédits, ils l'attirent dans un piège littéraire où il sera victime de sa propre suffisance. 1991.By Joyce Carol Oates, Claude Seban. 2003
Dans les années 1975, il s'en passe de belles à Catamount College, une prestigieuse université féminine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. L'organisateur…
des vénéneuses ou perverses "réjouissances" est un charismatique professeur de littérature assisté de son épouse française, sculptrice et bisexuelle. Mais toute médaille a son revers et certaines étudiantes tentent de se suicider, d'autres abusent des drogues, des somnifères, deviennent anorexiques, etc.; des incendies criminels ravagent une partie du campus. 2003, c2002. Titre uniforme: Beasts.By Charlotte Wagner. 1981
Au lycée, c'était déjà plus peinard. On était quarante-huit filles, mais dans les classes il n'y avait jamais plus de…
quarante places, alors on s'empilait tant bien que mal dans le fond, on ricanait, on n'écoutait rien, on se trouvait extraordinaires. Des profs parlaient de mauvaise ambiance, et de Sénèque, et de nous flanquer à la porte, et des vestiges précieux du Parthénon, et nous, tout ça, on s'en foutait comme de leurs culottes. Encore qu'il devait y en avoir d'assez marrantes. Wagner raconte les 400 coups d'une jeune fille des années 60, le défilé des copains d'occasion et des séducteurs à tempes grises. La petite révoltée de la famille, de Dieu et du sexe fait l'apprentissage. de quelque chose qui ressemble à la sagesse, une sagesse qui n'a pas froid aux yeux et que l'on n'enseigne pas dans les couvents.By Robertson Davies, Lisa Rosenbaum. 1990