Kelly Quindlen

Only read once! No writing or annotations inside. Good as new :)

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

High school nemeses fall in love in Kelly Quindlen's She Drives Me Crazy, a queer YA rom com perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Casey McQuisten...

She Drives Me Crazy

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#paperback #Highschool #HighschoolReading #APLit #AP #APLang #Annotated #Writtenin

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Indiana

A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain

Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an irrationally positive outlook on life--but why? Turns out, we might be hardwired that way.

In this absorbing exploration, Tali Sharot--one of the most innovative neuroscientists at work today--demonstrates that optimism may be crucial to human existence. The Optimism Bias explores how the brain generates hope and what happens when it fails; how the brains of optimists and pessimists differ; why we are terrible at predicting what will make us happy; how emotions strengthen our ability to recollect; how anticipation and dread affect us; how our optimistic illusions affect our financial, professional, and emotional decisions; and more.
 
Drawing on cutting-edge science, The Optimism Bias provides us with startling new insight into the workings of the brain and the major role that optimism plays in determining how we live our lives.

The Optimism Bias: annotated, great for high schoolers

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Caroline Pignat

The Breakfast Club meets We Need to Talk About Kevin. A lockdown catches five grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only unlocked room on that empty third floor wing: the boys' washroom. They sit in silence, judging each other by what they see, by the stories they've heard over the years. Stuck here with them--could anything be worse? 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. Told in five unique voices through prose, poetry, text messages, journals and homework assignments, this modern-day Breakfast Club takes a twist when Isabelle gets a text that changes everything: 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...

Shooter

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John Grisham

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

A Novel

Story of high school All - American Neely Crenshaw and relationships on the team and with the coach Eddie Rake. When Coach Rakes "boys" come home to bury him, sitting in the bleachers, Neely knows he must forgive his coach and himself to finally move on with his life.

Bleachers

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This textbook is written for high schoolers to inform them of the presence and dangers of human trafficking and slavery and how, as young prople, they can fight it. The spine is a little compromised, but the book is intact. Corners are a little frayed. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Georgia

Social Studies

A Call to Fight Modern Slavery

Libertas

SparkNotes

English

Much Ado about Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Pennsylvania

Bloodlust; Initiation

When Jason Freeman moves to Malibu, he thinks his life is picture-perfect, until a girl washes up dead the morning after a party with suspicious-looking bite marks.

Vampire Beach 1

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Slight creases in the front and back of the book. Some scratches but in great condition. Book summary The Giver is a 1993 novel by Lois Lowry, set in a future society which is not quite as ideally Utopian as it first appears. The story follows a twelve-year old boy named Jonas, who is selected to inherit all of the memories of the time before Utopia. This ensures that there is experience to draw from in case they are ever needed to aid in decision making, but Jonas discovers just how shallow his community's world has become.

The Giver

#paperback #nonfiction #educational #literarycriticism #literature #highschool #adult #english 

A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Thomas C. Foster's classic guide—a lively and entertaining introduction to literature and literary basics, including symbols, themes, and contexts—that shows you how to make your everyday reading experience more rewarding and enjoyable. While many books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, there are often deeper literary meanings interwoven in these texts. How to Read Literature Like a Professor helps us to discover those hidden truths by looking at literature with the eyes—and the literary codes—of the ultimate professional reader: the college professor. What does it mean when a literary hero travels along a dusty road? When he hands a drink to his companion? When he's drenched in a sudden rain shower? Ranging from major themes to literary models, narrative devices, and form, Thomas C. Foster provides us with a broad overview of literature—a world where a road leads to a quest, a shared meal may signify a communion, and rain, whether cleansing or destructive, is never just a shower—and shows us how to make our reading experience more enriching, satisfying, and fun. This revised edition includes new chapters, a new preface, and a new epilogue, and incorporates updated teaching points that Foster has developed over the past decade.

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

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Jay Strack

Leadership Rocks by Jay Strack for middle school & high schoolers

Becoming a Student of Influence

Leadership Rocks is based on Student Leadership University's popular Leadership Rocks Conference held across the nation. At the end of this study you will be ready to live confidently for Christ and to speak the language of a leader.

Leadership Rocks

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Jennifer Niven

Holding up the Universe

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Melissa Kantor

Dust jacket is a bit rough on the top, otherwise in perfect new condition.

When high school sophomore Lucy Norton’s father remarries, Lucy’s life is turned upside down. She and her father move from their West Coast home to a suburb on Long Island. With a small bedroom in the unfinished basement, unlimited chores, a blank social calandra, and a huge crush on the dashing prince of the varsity basketball team, Lucy’s life has the makings of a Cinderella story—-complete with two bratty stepsisters and a wicked stepmother.
So isn’t she supposed to get the prince? And go to the senior prom?

Conner Pearson knows who I am, I found myself thinking. He knows my name. Of course, my name was just about the only thing he did know about me, but it was something. After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?

Mrs. McBloom, clean up your room!"For nearly fifty years, that's been the refrain of janitors, principals, and students who enter the chaos of Room Five. Now the beloved Mrs. McBloom-who has taught nearly everyone in the town of Up Yonder, even Principal Pumpernickel-is about to retire. Finally, she must clean up her classroom.But where to begin? Years of science experiments have left all kinds of critters hoppin' and cluckin' and flyin' around. Giant sunflowers droop over desks; vines with fat green beans climb the walls; and a full-grown apple tree grows smack-dab in the middle of the floor. There are more books stacked in Room Five than in the Up Yonder Library. And who knows what else lurks in the piles of papers or the lost-and-found box?

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?

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#hardcover #romance #lottery #highschool 

Michigan

Windfall 

Izumi Tsubaki

North Carolina

Can typical teen Chiaki melt high school heartthrob Yousuke's cold heart...through her extraordinary talent in massage?!

The star of her high school's Massage Research Society club, Chiaki Togu is otherwise a normal, quiet girl until she falls in love at first sight with a gorgeous back--a back that happens to belong to Yosuke, the hottest guy at her school! Unfortunately, Chiaki's attraction to Yosuke is thwarted by her own insecurity and the scheming of other girls--especially her twin sister Saya!

Although Yosuke seems out of Chiaki's league, she would do anything to give him a massage. The two eventually strike up a deal in which she will be allowed to touch his back...if she can make him fall in love with her!

The Magic Touch, Vol. 1 & 2

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#paperback #nonfiction #educational #literarycriticism #criticism #literature #highschool #adult 

Tommy Wallach

Lightly used, only read once and has some slight wear on it. Overall in great condition.

The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.

We All Looked Up

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Kimberly McCreight

Comes from a smoke free, pet free home. No folds to pages. Very slight yellowing to pages 

New York Times Bestseller

"Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl, it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year."  -- Entertainment Weekly

The stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter Amelia's tragic death, sifting through her emails, texts, and social media to piece together the shocking truth about the last days of her life.

Kate's in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter--now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already too late for Amelia. And for Kate.

An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that's the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didn't jump.

Reconstructing Amelia is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, it's the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldn't save.



Reconstructing Amelia

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A powerful and gripping contemporary YA from the author of I'm Not Herthat's "Just right for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jodi Picoult."-Booklist

The truth is that Jess knows she screwed up.
She's made mistakes, betrayed her best friend, and now she's paying for it. Her dad is making her spend the whole summer volunteering at the local soup kitchen.

The truth is she wishes she was the care-free party-girl everyone thinks she is.
She pretends it's all fine. That her "perfect" family is fine. But it's not. And no one notices the lie...until she meets Flynn. He's the only one who really sees her. The only one who listens.

The truth is that Jess is falling apart - and no one seems to care.
But Flynn is the definition of "the wrong side of the tracks." When Jess's parents look at him they only see the differences-not how much they need each other. They don't get that the person who shouldn't fit in your world... might just be the one to make you feel like you belong.

The Truth about Us

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Never read/opened. All pages, cover and spine are intact.

New York

After a wild party, a good girl's shiny reputation is ruined unless she can tame the bad boy surfer.

The Way to Game the Walk of Shame

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#highschool #educational #hardcover #economics #freeshipping #savingmoney #financialprogram #money #business #taxes brandnew comes with book, workbook and 8 cds. Free shipping 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Economics

Financial Fitness 

February 1965 third printing. Book is excellent, dj is fair. In new Demco cover. A modern classic novel of teenage angst, disaffected youth, idealistic but overworked teachers in a metropolitan high school.

Arizona

Up the Down Staircase

Barron’s Algebra 1 Regents Review Books

Math

Regents Algebra 1 Power Pack

Jennifer Echols

"When yearbook photographer Harper and the star player of the high school football team get voted "the perfect couple that never was" by their senior class, the unlikely pair start falling for one another. But a handful of obstacles, including Harper's boyfriend, stand in the way of their perfect ending"--

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Kelly Quindlen

She Drives Me Crazy

Tali Sharot

The Optimism Bias: annotated, great for high schoolers

Caroline Pignat

Shooter

John Grisham

Bleachers

You Can Free Us Sujo John

Libertas

SparkNotes

Much Ado about Nothing (No Fear Shakespeare)

Alex Duval

Vampire Beach 1

Lois Lowry

The Giver

Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

Jay Strack

Leadership Rocks

Jennifer Niven

Holding up the Universe

Melissa Kantor

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where's My Prince?

Jennifer E. Smith

Windfall

Izumi Tsubaki

The Magic Touch, Vol. 1 & 2

Thomas C. Foster

How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition

Tommy Wallach

We All Looked Up

Kimberly McCreight

Reconstructing Amelia

Jennifer Niven

Holding up the Universe

Janet Gurtler

The Truth about Us

Jenn P. Nguyen

The Way to Game the Walk of Shame

Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward

Financial Fitness

Bel Kaufman

Up the Down Staircase

Gary Rubinstein

Regents Algebra 1 Power Pack

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Perfect Couple