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English
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"In her new book, Alexandra Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned. And then she will celebrate them. In this ever-conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Description
When Daniel Musgrove's troubled family moves to Mississippi just before his junior year, he is appalled. On top of the usual teenage humiliations, he now has to learn to say "y'all" and "Co-Cola" or risk being ostracized as a Yankee. But Daniel's loneliness fades when he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins. You only need one best friend, he figures, to make it through high school alive. Daniel and Tim become inseparable, sharing a fascination with ridicule,...
3) Rushmore
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A gifted, rebellious teenager finds himself in competition with a wealthy older man for a favorite teacher's affections.
4) Booksmart
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Two super-achieving high school senior girls make up for their clean-cut existence by enjoying a night of uncensored fun. Told from a wildly original, fresh and modern perspective, this is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds they create that last a lifetime.
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
After climbing Pampa High School's popularity chain, taking her volleyball team to the state championship, and founding the school's first drug-, alcohol- and violence-free club, Amy Newhouse must now fight the biggest battle of her life -- cancer.
6) Carrie
Author
Language
Español
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
Series
New directions for community colleges volume no. 169
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A report on the overblown fear of violence that turns American schools into prisons and students into suspects describes how the fixation on crime and security has resulted in unprecedented restrictions on student rights, dignity, and educational freedom.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Acclaimed author Renee Watson offers a powerful story about a girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her. Jade believes she must get out of her poor neighborhood if she's ever going to succeed. Her mother tells her to take advantage of every opportunity that comes her way. And Jade has: every day she rides the bus away from her friends and to the private school where she feels like an outsider, but where...
Author
Publisher
Nobrow Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Meet Joey Moonhead. A normal kid in every way. Except one: he has a moon for a head. Equipped with little else but a boundless imagination and an insatiable desire to be the best musician in existence, Joey Moonhead embarks on a stellar mission to create a machine that is out of this world.
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Publisher
Dark Horse Manga
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"YOUR FIRST DAY OF CLASS WILL BE...MURDER!!! Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy, which selects only the elite...plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery. Makoto Naegi was that lucky person--or so he thought! When he shows up for class, he finds the students are a bizarre cast of oddballs under the ruthless authority of a robot teddy bear principal, Monokuma. The bear lays down the school rules: the only way out of Hope's Peak is to not only murder...
Author
Series
Jughead (2015) volume 1
Publisher
Archie Comics Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riverdale High prides itself on providing a quality education. But to Jughead Jones, what matters most is meal time--and Riverdale delivers solid midday chow. But when that sacred time is tampered with by a hot-headed new principal, Jughead swears vengeance! Can the burger-loving beanpole curry enough favor (see what we did there?) to rollback the cuisine catastrophe?"--Back cover.
14) Grease
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
It's love when a greaser falls for a good girl in this classic musical depicting young life in the fifties.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Five high school students-- a Rebel, an Athlete, a Brain, a Princess and a Basketcase-- find themselves thrown together serving a Saturday morning detention. They do not have much in common, except giving up their day, sitting in the school library, and writing an essay for the principal. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some of the Rebel's marijuana, they begin to pour their hearts out to each other. They talk about their...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Peter Parker, who made his sensational debut in Captain America: Civil War, begins to navigate his newfound identity as the web-slinging super hero. Thrilled by his experience with the Avengers, Peter returns home, where he lives with his Aunt May, under the watchful eye of his new mentor Tony Stark. Peter tries to fall back into his normal daily routine, distracted by thoughts of proving himself.
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Series
Language
English
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Timid Tadano is a total wallflower, and that's just the way he likes it. But all that changes when he finds himself alone in a classroom on the first day of high school with the legendary Komi. He quickly realizes she isn't aloof—she's just super awkward. Now he's made it his mission to help her on her quest to make 100 friends!
Rated: T
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
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Description
When the class-overachiever, the head cheerleader, and the vegan lover discover they're all dating the same guy - namely the star basketball player John Tucker - the girls decide to recruit a bashful new girl named Kate to become the ideal girl to break Tucker's bad boy heart. But as Kate uses the girls' combined wiles to lure Tucker, his interest gives her a social standing she's never had before. But the intoxicating experience may cost her a chance...
20) The Wave
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Language
English
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Description
When history teacher Ben Ross starts a classroom experiment, with the intention of showing students the processes behind social control in Nazi Germany, things get out of hand and the power of group pressure becomes a frightening reality.
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