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Author
Language
English
Description
"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund operator who also happens to own...
Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate ... and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy....
3) Moo
Author
Language
English
Description
A satire on university life, describing the rackets and the intellectual dishonesty that goes on. The setting is the U of Moo where research into the destruction of rain forests is tailored to suit the corporation funding the project. By the author of A Thousand Acres.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A seventeen-year-old orphan is sent to a posh northeastern college for women by an anonymous benefactor. All she must do is write to the man she nicknames Daddy-Long-Legs and tell him of her progress.
7) Hell bent
Author
Series
Alex Stern volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Wealth. Power, Murder, Magic, Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell. Alex is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory, even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Alex and Dawes can't call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team to save the gentleman of Lethe. Together, they have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and artifacts to uncover the societies' secrets and break every rule doing it. But...
Author
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
The reader makes a series of choices that determine how the story's main character will deal with her jealousy when her good friend, a gymnast, joins Innerstar University's diving team and immediately excels.
10) The principals
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This sharply satirical novel concerns a battle royal between two academic institutions and their principals. England, 1987. It's all-out war. Two universities in the same city each aim to destroy the other and take over one another's buildings, students and - above all - bank balance. At a time of austerity in public life and huge government cuts, the situation has become desperate and the respective university principals are prepared to fight very...
11) The outside shot
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[1984]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Recruited by a small midwestern college to play basketball, a Harlem boy has many new experiences, including working with a child who needs physical therapy and dealing with corruption in college sports.
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume twelve
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the turmoil of the vampire-hunting Draug's ongoing dominance in Morganville, student Claire Danvers and her friends search for a cure for town founder Amelie, who has been infected by the master Draug's bite.
13) Admission
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
15) Last breath
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
When college student Claire Danvers learns that three of the vampires in Morganville have disappeared without a trace, only to discover that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is a mysterious new resident named Magnus, she begins to suspect that Magnus is not a fellow-human.
17) Catch
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Teenager Tim Temples must decide if he wants to leave his comfortable life in a small town and go to college.
18) The faculty club
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a prestigious first year in law school marked by a coveted job with a top professor and a relationship with a beautiful Rhodes scholar, Jeremy Davis is admitted into a mysterious club that promises him phenomenal successes and hides a deadly ancient secret.
19) The admissions
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The seemingly perfect Hawthorne family of northern California is tested by Ivy League ambitions, overscheduling, impossible expectations by the Bay Area elite, and difficult personal secrets.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
When, as the new Classics professor at Vandemark College, their father is made responsible for a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts, twelve-year-old Phineas and his older sister Althea try to find out why the collection is the target of thieves, especially when the mummy disappears.