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These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Pomona, and other outstanding schools -- followed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country.
42) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past"--
43) Cracking the ACT
Description
The instruction, drills, review, and practice tests that students need to master all 5 sections of the ACT exam (English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and the Writing Test).
44) Wrecked
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Offers a kaleidoscopic view of a sexual assault on a college campus that will leave readers thinking about how memory and identity, what's at stake, and who sits in judgment shape what we all decide to believe about the truth"--
45) Watch me
Author
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ally, chosen to move into a house full of strangers for a reality television show, thinks she has everything under control, but she finds she does not like living in the spotlight and when she is seen too often hanging out with sensitive housemate Drew, it threatens her relationship with her long-distance boyfriend, Corey.
46) John Woman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
47) Scaring lessons
Author
Series
Step into reading volume Step 2
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mike is smart. Sulley is scary. Who wiil be a better Scarer at Monsters University?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice...
Author
Series
After novels (Anna Todd) volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Tessa and Hardin have had enough surprises. Their bond is stronger than ever, but every new challenge they face shakes their foundation--and Hardin's impenetrable façade--to the core. As the shocking truth about each of their families emerges, it's clear the two lovers are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin--any more than he is the cruel, moody boy she fell so hard for....
Author
Series
Description
"Unfairly disgraced former army officer Jake Cantrell has only one friend left: Bug, a wolf-dog he saved while serving in Afghanistan. Together, they try to put his bitter past behind him and Jake settles for employment at the bottom rung of the campus security ladder of a small upstate New York college. But things only turn worse when the college's richest and most powerful alumnus is found hanging from a campus footbridge on the eve of homecoming...
51) A deadly game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Jim Salvatori is hired to head up the newly created Computer Security Department at Mayfair College after the school's computer system is attacked by a virus, but what people do not realize is that Jim is uniquely qualified to figure out whether Mayfair's computers fell victim to a joker or a criminal.
Author
Description
This "terrific novel" (Redbook) is about the biography of a friendship between two women was a big summer word-of-mouth success. "You'll definitely see elements of yourself and your girlfriends in this terrific novel, " is how Redbook described Best Friends-which may explain why this first novel from an unknown author has been quietly building to a surprising hardcover success. It's the kind of book that is shared among friends, an instantly familiar...
53) Campusland
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
A tumultuous and often hilarious first novel about one year of insanity at the Ivy-like Devon University, a blissful bubble of elite students and the adults at their mercy. Eph Russell is an English professor up for tenure. He may look and sound privileged, but Eph is right out of gun-rack, Bible-thumping rural Alabama. His beloved Devon, though, has become a place of warring tribes, and there are landmines waiting for Eph that he is unequipped to...
54) New horizons
Author
Series
Mandie her college days volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
When Mandie and her friend Celia begin classes at the Charleston Ladies College, they must contend with unfriendly classmates and rumors of a haunted house.
58) All I need
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When Skye, a hopeless romantic, meets Seth, hurt by a recent break-up, at an end-of-summer party they connect instantly, but their love is tested when she returns to high school and he begins to work his way through an Ivy-League college.
Author
Series
Blue is for nightmares volume 4
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Soon after beginning her freshman year at Beacon University, Stacey, a hereditary witch, befriends the college president's fourteen-year-old daughter and tries to help her cope with nightmares that foretell murder.