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My weird school volume 2
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English
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A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee-jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? What are A.J. and the kids in his...
2) Home song
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English
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Tom Gardner, devoted husband, father, and high school principal, and those who are dearest to him have their security and trust threatened, when Kent, the result of Tom's one-night stand with a fiercely independent woman, is transferred to his school. Special release date of January 18, 1995.
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"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
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Terrible two volume 2
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English
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"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp"--
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Captain Underpants volume 11
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English
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"George and Harold thought their porcelain problems were behind them, but the Turbo Toilet 2000 is striking back! The carnivorous commode known for devouring everything in its path has built up a real appetite...for REVENGE! Luckily, the fate of humanity is once again in the hands of George and Harold and their annoying nemesis Melvin Sneedly. Will Wedgie Power prevail? Or will the amazing Captain Underpants be flushed away forever?" -- Page 4 of...
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Captain Underpants volume 5
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English
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When Harold and George turn fourth-grade teacher Ms. Ribble into the evil Wedgie Woman, she gives the wedgie of doom to unsuspecting people who stand in her way--including principal-turned-superhero Captain Underpants.
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Hamilton High Principal Wendell Quinn is tired of the violence, drug abuse, teen pregnancies, and low expectations at his Indianapolis school. A single father of four, Quinn is a Christian and a family man. He wants to see change in his community, so he starts a voluntary after-school Bible Study and prayer program. He knows he is risking his job by leading the program, but the high turnout at every meeting encourages him. A year later, violence and...
10) Then came heaven
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English
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Browerville, Minnesota, is the setting of "Then Came Heaven," a novel of nostalgia for small towns, for the descendants of the Polish immigrants who settled such towns, and for the love of church life. As Spencer's tale begins, the year is 1950. The day is cast in the warm glow of early September as two railroad engineers debate then-current politics. But as their train approaches a crossing at Browerville, something terrible is about to happen. Krystyna...
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Captain Underpants volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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The monstrous Turbo Toilet 2000 is determined to take revenge on George, Harold, and Captain Underpants.
12) Island of dreams
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Publisher
Warner Books
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English
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" For Boston-proper librarian Ana Finch, life has been quiet, certain, safe, until an accident at a wedding changes everything. The headaches begin then, as does the bone-chilling cold. She feels compelled to move from Boston to Denver, even though the Rocky Mountain city is a place she's never been. As if summoned by an unknown force of nature, she finds herself urgently searching for something, an elusive something that promises to be as wonderful...
13) Captain Underpants and the preposterous plight of the purple potty people: the eighth epic novel.8
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Captain Underpants volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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George and Harold hypnotize their principal who, believing he is the superhero Captain Underpants, leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper. They must then defeat his evil robot henchmen.
14) Doubt
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...