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43) The contender
Author
Series
Contender volume 1
Description
A Harlem high school dropout escapes from a gang of punks into a boxing gym, where he learns that being a contender is hard and often discouraging work, but that you don't know anything until you try.
45) Reality check
Author
Description
After a knee injury destroys sixteen-year-old Cody's college hopes, he drops out of high school and gets a job in his small Montana town; but when his ex-girlfriend disappears from her Vermont boarding school, Cody travels cross-country to join the search.
46) IQ
Author
Series
IQ novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the neighborhood's high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, lost children unrecovered. But someone from the neighborhood has taken it upon himself to help solve the cases the police can't or won't touch. They call him IQ. He's a loner and a high school dropout, his unassuming nature disguising a relentless determination and a fierce intelligence. He charges his clients whatever they can afford, which...
Author
Series
Chip Harrison mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1974
Description
Chip Harrison has finally secured himself a job, acting as the man-about-town for the corpulent detective Leo Haig. And it's on the dangerous streets of New York that Chip brings home his first case, one in which five beautiful sisters are being systematically murdered by a killer with a diabolical design.
Pub. Date
[2009], p2008
Formats
Description
Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assistant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in the American consciousness, taking Troy along for the...
50) Strings attached
Author
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Description
When she drops out of school and struggles to start a career on Broadway in the fall of 1950, seventeen-year-old Kit Corrigan accepts help from an old family friend, a lawyer said to have ties with the mob, who then asks her to do some favors for him.
51) Chase me
Author
Series
Broke and beautiful novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"College drop-out Roxy Cumberland moved to New York with dreams of becoming an actress, but her dwindling bank account is quickly putting the kibosh on that fantasy. To make some quick cash, she signs up to perform singing telegrams. Her first customer is a gorgeous, cocky Manhattan trust-funder if she ever laid eyes on one. And what could be more humiliating than singing an ode to his junk, courtesy of his recent one night stand? Maybe the fact that...
52) Street pharm
Author
Description
Seventeen-year-old African-American drug dealer, Ty Johnson, takes over his father's business and struggles to make sense of his life when competition from out of town threatens him and those who are close to him.
54) Teen dropouts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Uses four case studies of teenagers who dropped out of high school to explain who drops out and why and to examine the economic and social consequences of such a decision.
Author
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
The inspiring, funny, and information-packed underground classic is back-in a completely revised and updated thirtieth anniversary edition!
The Teenage Liberation Handbook is (still) the only complete guide to unschooling written for youth. It tackles everything~
• why to consider self-directed education
• communicating with reluctant parents
• "getting a social life without proms"
• designing a "tailor-made intellectual extravaganza" and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After years of drifting, fifty-year-old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl, in the small town of Sleeping Grass--a place he never expected to see again. It's not the life he dreamed of, but there aren't many prospects for a high school dropout like him. Elderly widow Wilma Jacobsen carries a burden of guilt over her part in events that led to Pete leaving Sleeping Grass decades ago. Now that he's back, she's been praying for...
57) Dropout Nation
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A troubling and inspiring journey through the maze of an inner city high school, Dropout Nation investigates the causes, challenges, and potential solutions of a national emergency
Author
Formats
Description
"Desperate to escape [her imploding life, failed Broadway actress and high school dropout Josie Pie] gets into reading . . . [and finds herself assuming the identity of] a different character [with each book] . . . It's the perfect way to live out her fantasies. Book after book, Josie the failed star finds a new way to shine. But the longer she stays in a story, the harder it becomes to escape. Will Josie find a story so good that she just stays forever?"...
59) An Education
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
60) Teen Dropouts
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Discusses the problem of teen dropouts, including who dropouts of school and why, what life is like after dropping out, how to help teens stay in school.
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