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1) Firegirl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous students turn convent school upside down with their pranks. During Christmas break, Mary remains at the school and is touched by the Sisters' celebration of the Yule. Their graduation is both a relief and a celebration for the Mother Superior.
3) Educating the catholic people: religious orders and their schools in early modern Italy (1500-1800)
Author
Series
History of early modern educational thought volume Volume 3
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
9) Sandcastles
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, John, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, John has returned to the family. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor herself--and a passion that may have been interrupted but that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann follow a trail of cryptic clues to locate a rare violin, catch the person sneaking into St. Veronica's School for late-night cleaning and redecorating, and outsmart a conniving classmate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
17) Secondhand star
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Francie finds life in her large family difficult sometimes and getting the dreaded Sister Ursula as her second grade teacher does not help, but making a new friend and working on the class play do.
18) Saving Francesca
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.
19) The sacrament
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims. A young nun is sent by the Vatican to investigate allegations of misconduct at a Catholic school in Iceland. During her time there, on a gray winter's day, a young student at the school watches the school's headmaster, Father August Franz, fall to his death from the church tower. Two...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Janey is a shy good girl. Lynne is a cool rock chick. But when the two friends scheme to get Janey on television's biggest after-school dance show, they find themselves on a wild adventure filled with cute boys, hot dancing, prudish nuns, mean rich kids, parents that just don't understand, and girls doing what they know best ... just having FUN!"--Container.