Wicked Cruel
Three separate short stories, all set in the same New Hampshire town, explore the truth behind local urban legends as, for example, sixth-grader Jordan begins seeing a boy from his school who died of injuries after being bullied.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
Carlos Is Gonna Get It
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
subjects: peer pressure, practical jokes, bildungsromans, school stories, african americans, boston (mass.), new hampshire [X], schools [X]
A Separate Peace
Based on John Knowles' novel, this involving a young man's first glimpse of adult emotions and motivations is compelling in both plot and perfomrance.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 345
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110
subjects: preparatory school students, boys, friendship, death, school stories, new hampshire [X], private schools, closed captioning, dvds, closed caption video recordings, bildungsromans, audiobooks, schools [X], historical fiction, video recordings for the hearing impaired, ethnics - fiction, preparatory schools - fiction, friendship - fiction, audiobooks, historical fiction, bildungsromane
Cracking The Ice
In 1968, when fourteen-year-old Jessie Stackhouse wins a hockey scholarship to an elite New Hampshire boarding school, it seems the only thing standing between him and his dream of one day being the second African American to play in the National Hockey League is the bigotry of the coach, some students, and townspeople.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: boarding schools, schools [X], private schools, hockey stories, school stories, new hampshire [X]
Fly Away Home
Bethany Logan, a teacher at a private boys' school in a small New Hampshire town, gets herself in deep trouble when she determines the headmaster's son, Pip, is really Ethan Haskel, a child kidnapped six years earlier from his Connecticut home.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Liv, Forever
Soon after an art scholarship gets Liv a place at prestigious Wickham Hall, she becomes the latest victim of a dark conspiracy spanning 150 years, but her ghost, aided by friend Gabe and boyfriend Malcolm, tries to put a stop to the killing.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: art, drawings, paintings, supernatural, schools [X], new hampshire [X], ghosts, murder, high schools
Game Change
Seventeen-year-old Zeb Holloway quietly spends his days working in his uncle's auto repair shop, deer hunting on weekends, and sitting on the bench of his high school's football team watching the star quarterback perform.
FIC
year:
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650