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62) The film club
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Documents the author's efforts to impart key life lessons to his high-school-dropout son by showing him three movies every week, in an account that describes how such films as True Romance and Rosemary's Baby enabled father-and-son dialogues about a range of life issues, from relationships and work to drugs and culture.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among the neon signs, theme restaurants, and cookie-cutter chain stores of her hometown.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"This collection of witty, inspiring, and thought-provoking eassays empowers prospective students and others eager to understand the complete college experience -- lessons learned from triumph and near disaster and from professors and peers, as well as the turning points that helped launch careers and define character."
68) Ride
Pub. Date
2015
Description
When her son drops out of school in New York, a mother drops everything to follow him to California, where she will find herself, her son, and a fresh stars of her own with help from her limo driver and an expert surfer.
Author
Series
The Tribe (Clay Chapman) volume 1
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After practically burning down his last school, Spencer Pendleton wants to keep out of trouble at Greenfield Middle but between attacks from the school bully and being recruited by the mischievous tribe of dropouts hiding in the building, Spencer seems headed for permanent detention.
73) Spellbound
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Raven, a teenage mother and high school dropout living in a housing project, decides, with the help and sometime interference of her best friend Aisha, to study for a spelling bee which could lead to a college preparatory program and four-year scholarship.
74) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Cerulean Gene is free everywhere except school, where they’re known for repeatedly challenging authority. Raised in a free-spirited home by two loving parents who encourage Cerulean to be their full self, they’ve got big dreams of moving cross-country to live off the grid with their friends after graduation. But a fight with a teacher spirals out of control, and Cerulean impulsively drops out to avoid the punishment they fear is coming. Why wait...
Author
Series
Gabriel dropout volume 10
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Please!! Be the great Satanya's servant! So my mom and dad are coming to check out the human world, and I kinda told my parents I made a highly accomplished angel fall from grace. So please, please, please! I don't want to disappoint my family! Hey, Gabriel--help me out here!!
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