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1) Clique bait
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pretty Little Liars meets Burn for Burn in this thrilling debut from Wattpad star Ann Valett.
Chloe Whittaker is out for revenge.
Last year her best friend Monica’s life was unceremoniously ruined by the most popular students at their high school, so this year Chloe plans to take each and every one of them down. She’s traded in her jeans and T-shirts for the latest designer clothes, erased anything on social media that would tie her to Monica...
2) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world -- conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. The Namesake brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations....
Author
Series
Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Frankie Stein was created in a laboratory, and when she enters Merston High School camouflaged as a "normi," all she wants is to fit in, but it takes the help of another new student who believes that everyone should be treated equally before Frankie even has a chance.
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment, and they must find a way to prove it to the rest of the world"--
Publisher
Intelecom Learning
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (587 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Way We Live is a 22-part series covering all the major topics you would expect to see in an introductory course in Sociology. Each broadcast-quality video incorporates interviews with leading sociologists, historic and contemporary footage, and case study illustrations called Slice of Life to bring learning to life. Students will explore the rich tapestry, diversity, and commonality of the human experience; learn to think critically about the...
Author
Series
Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 3
Publisher
Poppy/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm .
Language
English
Description
Frankie, Melody, and Cleo fight to let their true colors show.
Author
Series
Monster High (Lisi Harrison) volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cleo was the queen bee of the RADs, the normies, and everyone in between at Merston High. But now new girls Frankie Stein and Melody Carver seem to be taking over.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Freakonomics was first published, the authors started a blog--and they've kept it up. The writing is more casual, more personal, even more outlandish than in their books. Now they've gone through and picked the best of the best. Here, they ask a host of typically off-center questions: Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken?.--From publisher description....
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Four experts (Michael Berry, Karl Gerth, Nile Green, and Pankaj Mishra) offer unique insights into different aspects of contemporary Asian society based upon their personal and professional experiences, sharing their perspectives on the similarities and differences between Asia and the West.
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (22 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Five leading psychologists (Barbara Fredrickson, Roy Baumeister, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Carol Dweck, Philip Zimbardo) present aspects of the life and work of a professional social psychologist, and discuss some current issues in the field of social psychology.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the end of seventh grade, and Alison DiLaurentis and her friends are the girls of Rosewood Day. Ali runs her clique with an iron fist, and she's got enough dirt on Hanna, Emily, Aria, and Spencer to keep them in line. But Ali's hiding a dark secret of her own, something so huge it would destroy everything if it ever got out... and in Rosewood, deadly secrets have deadly consequences...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not onlu in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into conversations that introduce the field's dominant themes and most lively disagreements. Deftly interweaving scholarship with familiar examples, Calavita...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America and After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (both Princeton).
Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural life
How did...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: he's merely Generic Asian Man. Every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He's a bit player here too. . . but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy--the highest aspiration he can imagine for a Chinatown denizen. Or is it? After stumbling into the spotlight,...
16) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot--from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women--women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine....
19) Undertow
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Lyric Walker's life forever changes the night she witnesses the arrival of the Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors. The world's initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turn into paranoia and fear, tranforming her hometown of Coney Island into a miltary zone with violence bubbling just beneath the surface. Despite her best efforts, Lyric is thrust into the middle of this clash of civilizations when the Alpha teenagers are forced...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An honest and deeply reported account of five women and the opportunities and frustrations they face in the year following their graduation from an elite university. Recent Princeton graduate Caroline Kitchener weaves together her experiences from her first year after college with that of four of her peers in order to delve more deeply into what the world now offers a female college graduate, and how the world perceives them. Each of the five girls...
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