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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal awareness: safety matters
Students at Lycroft Phelps are marked for success. As a straight-A
student and girlfriend of the school's star rower, Charlotte
believes in what the school has to offer. Meanwhile, scholarship
student Max is struggling. Until he's asked to join the rowing team
offering him popularity - but at what cost? Then there's Quinn, a
sixth-generation legacy student, who should be able to lay claim to
the school in a way others can't. Who instead must watch the boy
who assaulted her continue to play at the top of the school's food
chain. Only in the dead of night does Q realize the solution to her
suffering: Colin Pearce must die. But Lycroft Phelps has more than
one dark secret at its heart, and as the three students uncover
just how far the school will go to keep those ugly truths hidden,
there's a lot more than reputation at stake... A tense and timely
thriller with a revenge plot that'll have you on the edge of your
seat. Perfect for fans of Kathleen Glasgow, Chelsea Pitcher and
Louise O'Neill. (Trigger warning: this book contains descriptions
of sexual violence that some readers may find upsetting.)
Did you know that there are kids out there who don't even want to
get out of bed in the morning because they know what going to
school means for them? * being teased and taunted ... * being
excluded and rejected ... * being afraid that you're going to be
assaulted and possibly hurt... * Sometimes it can even mean that
you just can't hang in there any longer, so you give up and take
your own life. If you are one of the cool kids at school, this book
is for you. But if you're not one of the cool kids, this book is
especially for you. Emerson Elementary isn't a real school, but it
could be your elementary school. And the students at Emerson aren't
real kids, but the problems they face are real, and so are the
choices they make.The Golden Rule is an old rule, but it's still a
good rule to live by, and after reading this book, you may just
possibly become a kinder, more compassionate human being, someone
who treats others the way you want them to treat you. So come along
and join the students at Emerson Elementary and help them make some
cool choices!
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Pet
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Akwaeke Emezi
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How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?
She stumbled backwards, her eyes wide, as the figure started coming out
of the canvas
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She tried to be brave. Well, she said, her hands only a little shaky,
at least tell me what I should call you.
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Well, little girl, it replied, I suppose you can call me Pet.
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of
Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named
Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when
she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and claws, who
emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood,
she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a
monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house.
Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover
the truth.
In their riveting and timely young adult debut, acclaimed novelist
Akwaeke Emezi asks difficult questions about what choices a young
person can make when the adults around them are in denial.
White Pine Award 2022 - Shortlisted During a sweltering summer,
Dills must come to terms with a horrific crime and the parent he
loves who committed it. Dills and his mom have returned to
Hamilton, her hometown, hoping to leave the horrors of Windsor
behind. But it's impossible to escape the echoes of tragedy, and
trouble always follows trouble. When Dills hurts a new classmate,
it comes out in court that he was in the Windsor High library when
the shooter came in. But he won't talk about what he saw, what he
still sees whenever he closes his eyes. He can't. He definitely
can't tell anyone that the Windsor Shooter is his stepfather,
Jesse, that Jesse can speak into his mind from hundreds of
kilometres away, and that Dills still loves him even though he
committed an unspeakable crime.
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