Urban Schools

Love is a dangerous game when your fated mate is a dark fae prince—so dangerous, in fact, that trust could be your deadliest enemy. Falling for him was the easy part. Staying alive? That’s where the real trouble begins. Met’s real mother—the Queen of the Underworld—wants him to walk the path of darkness, leaving me with a choice: embrace evil or perish. But evil isn't me. Meanwhile, Moros—Jax’s blood father, a demon and succubus—wants me as a lure to bring Nightmare back into his grasp. Now, I must dance between two worlds of darkness and deception, staying on my toes if I ...

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

Superweapon stud? That's what the doctor ordered. The Beastmasters are dwindling. The Mekanics are growing bolder. Everyone's desperate for the next magic bullet. With no more Chimerics arriving, there's only one way to make more Beastmasters. Me. I'm not against making baby Beastmasters with the hotties on my squad. The problem is that they're not telling me everything. The last time they tried this, things got pretty ugly... All hell's breaking loose. Secrets are spilling left and right. Even my alien cat Zoe can't keep all the facts straight. And everyone wants a piece of me. There's ...

Danger, intrigue, and the power of family combine in The Winterhouse Mysteries, the fast-paced conclusion to Ben Guterson's enchanting Winterhouse middle grade trilogy. It’s springtime at Winterhouse and Elizabeth is settling into the joyful chaos of her new home. But it isn’t long before...

An alien cat turned me into a superweapon. I was homeless on the streets of Third York when it happened. Then the military arrived and gave me a choice. Enlist or die. The next thing I knew, I was fighting giant robots at the Xenoforce Academy's boot camp. Figuring out superpowers and energy levels was hard enough, but I had to deal with a mind-reading alien princess, a team of gorgeous women, and a femme fatale in charge of the whole operation. Oh, and a galactic conspiracy is threatening all of humanity. It's up to me and my new feline friend to set things right. A civil war's brewing on ...

Drawing on experience in general and special education, Victor Moody - Dean of Students, presents the PBIS Playbook, revealing the #1 school-wide positive behavior intervention system (PBIS) designed to improve student behavior, academic achievement, and school culture. This practical resource offers a proven, step-by-step system for successfully managing the most challenging students, classrooms, and schools in today’s toughest educational settings. PBIS Playbook contains premium information that can be used by educators in any school. However, this book is particularly sought after by ...

Principal leadership studies have indicated that leadership can play an essential role in augmenting students' achievement scores. One significant influence that can affect achievement scores is the leadership style of the principal. This study focuses on fourth grade achievement scores within urban elementary schools and explores the relationship between the principals' leadership styles and fourth-grade achievement scores. This study also examines the relationship between teachers' and principals' perceptions of leadership and school climate in order to determine whether significant ...

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Teach magic, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Yeah, well, they’re dirty rotten liars. When I told Tennessee we needed to have more schools than just Edenburg I thought they’d assign appropriate people to the task. Ya know, like actual adults. Not a sixteen year old who still has to finish high school herself. But then Tennessee became Coven Leader, and my great idea came back to bite me in the ass.

Edwin Salamand thought running a bookshop for beginners was complicated enough. But now that he's settled into his role as Starwick's most unlikely shop owner, winter brings a new challenge: his skill tomes are failing. When customers start returning books with fading magic and blurred text, Edwin discovers it's not just his shos. It's happening across the entire city. Even worse, the earthquakes shaking Starwick's foundations might be connected to the magical blight affecting everyone's abilities. Armed with his Shopkeeper skills and a frost-breathing salamander named Cricket, Edwin must ...

He never asked to be chosen. He never asked to heal. But destiny has other plans. Cavan Doyle is an ordinary Irishman, thirty years old, single, and comfortable in his quiet routines of work, evenings at the pub, and the steady rhythm of small-town life. He believes the world is mundane until a single night shatters everything he thought to be true. Whispers invade his dreams. Strange visions haunt him. When his gift as a healer unexpectedly erupts in public, Cavan is thrust into a hidden world of ancient powers, secret societies, and rival factions that have been shaping humanity for ...

Ashworth Academy tightened the leash. And this time, they went for my heart. I was never meant to be more than a stabilizer, an anchor for four monsters the Covenant can’t control. But after I broke a bond that should’ve been unbreakable, the Council decided I was too dangerous to trust. So they put me in a cage. Severed from my bonded. Locked in isolation. Stripped of the only thing keeping my power, and my sanity, intact. Caine’s cold restraint is gone. Ronan’s careful masks are cracking. Dagon’s fire is burning out of control. Bastian’s shadows are hunting answers I’m not ...

The astonishing conclusion to the #1 international bestselling Vampire Academy series . . . “We’re suckers for it.”—Entertainment Weekly “Stands out from the crowded vampire genre.”—Associated Press “An obvious pick for the literary lover of all things bloodsucking.”—MTV’s...

Passion Ignites in the Classrooms of Cleveland ...can they save the after-school program, and each other? When Andre James, a dedicated educator who's secretly a millionaire, starts an after-school program at Garfield Elementary, he's determined to make a difference in the lives of underperforming students. What he doesn't expect is to find love in the process. Enter Gia Thompson, a passionate fourth-grade teacher with a fierce devotion to her students. As Andre and Gia work side-by-side day after day, their shared commitment to uplifting the community sparks an undeniable attraction ...

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"This magical thrill-ride is a treat." —Publishers Weekly on Cast in Wisdom The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuries. Now its strange slumber has ended, and a new Chancellor, an orange-eyed dragon, has reopened its lecture halls and...

Darren and his dad Troy both want the same thing… and only Veronica can satiate their hungry desires. After wandering into her boyfriend’s house and finding his smoking-hot dad walking naked through it, Veronica’s world opens up. She finds herself needing help with her car, and guess who is there to save her? Troy Matthews, the father of her boyfriend Darren. She wants him. He wants her. The crazy thing is, Darren doesn’t seem too pissed about it. In fact, he encourages it. Soon, Vee finds herself at the mercy of them both. What began as an innocent cry for help turns into something...

Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America's poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.

""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel...