Urban Schools

Edwin Salamand thought running a bookshop for beginners was complicated enough. But now that he's settled into his role as Starwick's most unlikely shop owner, winter brings a new challenge: his skill tomes are failing. When customers start returning books with fading magic and blurred text, Edwin discovers it's not just his shos. It's happening across the entire city. Even worse, the earthquakes shaking Starwick's foundations might be connected to the magical blight affecting everyone's abilities. Armed with his Shopkeeper skills and a frost-breathing salamander named Cricket, Edwin must ...

Clarissa Lawrence has been fired from multiple internships as a student teacher for reasons outside her control. Magical things keep happening to her...like the students turning into frogs. Her love life isn’t any more normal, considering how her boyfriends keep mysteriously suffering from heart attacks. Clarissa doesn’t know how to explain it all. When Clarissa learns she is descended from a powerful sorceress, she would do anything to find the magical world where she knows she belongs.

If it was left to her, Ife Adebola wouldn’t be starting at Nithercott School. Because despite her being in the Urban Achievers scholarship program, her parents can barely afford the tuition. No matter who is trying to be friends with her, like her classmate Bijal, or how much the prestigious boarding school tries to pull her in, Ife is determined not to get caught up in any of it. But when another student, Malika, begins acting strange, Ife can’t help but wonder if there’s more going on at Nithercott than she realizes.

Told with equal parts raw honesty and unbridled compassion, All Day recounts a year in Liza Jessie Peterson's classroom at Island Academy, the high school for inmates detained at New York City's Rikers Island. A poet and an actress who had done occasional workshops at the correctional facility, Peterson was ill prepared for a full-time stint teaching in the GED program for the incarcerated youths.

After being released from her incarceration at the Lincoln Park Shifter School, Laylea thought she would go back to helping Team Wyrdos. Instead, with her big brother caught up in his studies and their parents still off battling the Consortium, she’s had to take on paranormal investigations to help pay the rent.

From the Bestselling Author P.S. Power, comes the thrilling novel of one girl's journey into the darkness of the supernatural. When Keeley transfers to a new school, she expects the same old drama that comes with any high school. But when she meets Darla Gibson, popular and seemingly up to no good, Keeley soon finds herself in a battle with forces beyond her wildest imagination. As Keeley discovers the terrible secrets that Darla and her friends are hiding, she must summon the courage to face the darkness lurking beneath the surface of her new school. With her life and the lives of her ...

The last semester of classes for Sophie Briggs at The School of Roots and Vines is racing to the end. A confrontation and battle with the Serpent, Azdaja, is fast approaching. The legendary Thicket Hall is dying and no matter what the Defenders do, they can only slow the ancient tree's death, not stop it. Could its end lead to a new beginning?

Laylea is a dog. Sure, she can shift to human, but her soul is always a dog. Now the council wants to make her a full-time human just because she broke their stupid rules? She's already drowning in all the secrets she’s keeping for her friends. She’ll be damned if she’s keeping any for the idiots in charge.

Stay away from Court Fae... My dad drilled that into our Dark Fae tribe, trapping us in the forest. Court Fae are deadly, cruel, and believe that they’re fated to mate for life. But I’m also Lord Spring: a rebel with something dangerous and magical growing inside me... Now, I’m a prisoner in a supernatural jail with my two hot and protective fae friends, held captive because I rebelled against the queen.

Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages fill the halls.

~A short Novelette Teen Love Story Love. Lies. Family Secrets. Nyla West, a shy freshman at James Taylor High, never imagined that a simple "What's up?" from Chase Donovan, the tall and charming basketball star, would turn her world upside down. For Nyla, it was love at first sight—something straight out of a high school daydream. But just as their connection starts heating up, a shocking family secret is revealed: Nyla and Chase are cousins. Their mothers forbid them from seeing each other, but Chase isn't ready to let go. Defiant and determined, he continues to pursue Nyla, pulling her ...

Unsettling Choice traces the contestations that surfaced when, in the wake of the 2007-2009 Great Recession, public schools navigated austerity by expanding choice-based programs. Ujju Aggarwal argues that this strategy mobilized mechanisms rooted in market logics to recruit families with economic capital on their side, solidifying a public sphere that increasingly resembled the private.

Everything is changing. It's the last semester of junior year for the Elemental, Sophie Briggs and her friends at The School of Roots and Vines. But will it be for better or worse? Classes take a priority for the teenagers but work and figuring out how to be a Defender is a close second. Both Marcus and Sophie's mysterious new tutor at the EBI have secrets to hide. Will Sophie harness a new curiosity in pursuit of the truth about them both?

The night shift in the morgue was supposed to be a chance to study in peace. So Giovanni is stunned when his patient sits up and starts scolding. Now he’s got to convince an unbelieving medical community to take action, so he can get back to learning about the dead - not the undead!

An den magischen Colleges können Magier magische Fachrichtung studieren. Egal ob in Oxford, Neu-Delhi oder Berlin – will man Magie studieren, muss man die Eignungsprüfung der jeweiligen Fachdisziplin bestehen. Zwei Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem Blutmagie und Multielementarmagie wieder an der Element High gelehrt werden dürfen.

When you've raised the dead, battled vampires and werewolves, and passed the Boards, what do you do for an encore? In his final rotations of med school, Giovanni is also desperately searching for Mrs. Harris the dead patient he lost—not once, but twice! Can he find her and help her to “Les Invisibles”, or will he finally be overwhelmed by his growing responsibilities, an increasing number of ghosts, or the misplaced paperwork piling up in the morgue?

Having lost his elderly patient, not once but twice, Giovanni has no choice but to dabble in the Dark Arts again. But trying to communicate with the other side is a tricky business. Will Giovanni be able to control the ghosts he calls up or will Prohibition-era gangsters take him for a little ride? And even if he locates his missing ghost, will he still be able to convince his supervising physicians that he's sane enough to graduate?

Just as hapless med student Giovanni begins gearing up for the Boards, a supernatural crises sweeps the campus. Vampires have taken over the local coffee shops, and nobody can get any studying done! It’s up to Giovanni and his werewolf buddies to save finals in spite of rabid clowns, invading rats, and the very real fear of looking stupid in front of a girl!

Evangeline "Gels" Varner is a teenager who has a teenage boy with a crush on her...Syd Barnett is her family friend's son and a pain to Gels. But little does he know she is starting to warm up to him. Catch up with their romance now.

Впереди–столкновения с демонами в аномалиях. А еще начинаются занятия в лицее Адамсов, где каждый встречный норовит пнуть простолюдина-выскочку. Вот только связываться со жрецом Нергала–себе дороже.