Katherine’s development from solid high school French student to near-fluent speaker with a Parisian accent astonished her language teacher that fall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“At least there’s someone who wants me. At least I’m not going to spend high school as a frustrated virgin.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw my brother and sister, all the townsfolk, the mayor and the entire Chamber of Commerce and all my old teachers and girlfriends and high school buddies. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after high school, she left Pike County, making her way through college and law school, spending time in France, Scotland, and Ireland, and beginning a high-powered legal career. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know what high school she went to. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a book about two high school athletes, actually. It was a documentary first, in the nineties. Then they expanded on it for the book.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Then I had planned on attending an elite high school, and then one of the famous universities. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could go back and finish my last year of high school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me an old high school textbook and sat me in the back of the classroom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t you go to high school before graduating from high school?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We thought about teachers who might have been goth, or punk, or hippie when they were in high school, and wondered what it was that had drained them of all their flavor and fun. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, for starters, I’ll be going to the white high school this year. I was speechless. I squeezed the phone in my hand. “Are you sure you wanna do that?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been brought up a Southern Baptist in suburban Baton Rouge with dreams of leaving home—she did so just after high school—and running a daycare center. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She’d probably have to wear them in high school, when everyone else had already gotten theirs off. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I do understand the hatred of high school life which, I guess, prompted it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a showcase of shorter performances that afternoon, another high school performs a production number from Pippin. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Galanter is my gym teacher in high school,” I told Billy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He talks a bit about high school being a time of feeling things out, and after that I kinda block him out for a while because the spotlight is just so hot. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I graduated from high school in early June. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I saw myself living the college life, all I needed was to graduate from high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And there in the doorway were Gluck and Derby and Pilgrim—the childish soldier and the poor old high school teacher and the clown in his toga and silver shoes—staring. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls out pictures of her own, taken during my high school years, and we try to remember the names of the people in them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I puzzled out names and words, dates and shapes, and imagined the lives of the men who lived there before me, just as I had done in my old ex-prison high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A high school graduate, Dwight Blevins was laid off from his own warehouse job and ended up with another one that paid less and offered a smaller pension. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

By now she was receiving so many invitations that she had trouble keeping up with her high school studies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When she says it’s a bad idea to sit down on the high school toilet seats without wiping them off first because you might get a disease, I say, “Who told you that? Your Mummie?” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Which was the same age he dropped out of high school. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The subjects were the same as at a good high school in the United States, although the curriculum was different. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my dreams, I’m back in high school, revisiting what led to my criminal record. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In high school he was admitted to a Texas magnet school for math and science, where students acquire college credit. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Junior high schools seemed to be wonderful and mysterious palaces. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I lost my high school diploma, my father found it as it was about to be thrown out with the trash. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the new high school would be named after Coach Washington. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know for some people, especially at the beginning of high school, where to sit and who you’ll sit with is a big deal. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You need to go to college to be a teacher. It’s five years of study beyond high school. It can be expensive.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

While in high school I accepted that I was living in a void, but now that I was heading for college I needed some fresh air and fresh thinking. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, in that respect and many others, American high schools do rather resemble prisons.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I could have called any of twenty-five thousand high school drama directors,” he would recall. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was Steve Spiegel, then president of Music Theatre International, the leading licensing agent for Broadway productions, who made the decision on what high school would be asked to pilot the play. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Whiteman had graduated from high school the previous summer and planned to make his living as a carpenter and, he hoped, as an artist. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Probably because we didn’t look like high school kids.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Within an hour they would watch the high school experience of their children, grandchildren, siblings, nieces, and nephews come to an end. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“These are María’s very good friends. They met two summers ago when María did a high school foreign exchange program in Berlin. That girl has tremendous ambitions. All three of them.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Emily had been super into honesty that year, which was probably why she didn’t have many friends now that they were sophomores in high school. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He elaborated without encouragement, citing the advantages of Devon’s physical hardening program and of a high school diploma when he did in good time reach basic training. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new restaurant was located near a high school, employed twenty carhops, and promptly made the brothers rich. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You know he had the biggest crush on me in high school.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No, no. She went to the high school. She teaches there now. My teaching methods are a little different from hers, but I have a feeling you’ll enjoy yourselves.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And, of course, after the girls changed into pajamas, Taryn suggested they watch a movie about a big, dramatic high school dance. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

During my high school summers, I cut grass in parks and on the medians of highways, unloaded trucks, and walked beside road-paving equipment with a rake to smooth the hot asphalt along the curbs. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Just getting through high school was miracle enough, and the way Tony and most other kids from South El Paso looked at it, everything after that in life was gravy, a gift. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he’d seen me jettison my high school boyfriend David at the gates of Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Under the radar, and without a formal charter, he had transformed Truman into something like a high school for the performing arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had me when she was a teenager, but that didn’t stop her from finishing high school, and she moved more times than Steve could even dream of! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had it read to us every breakfast, as we sat in the high school cafeteria, eating porridge with cream and brown sugar. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d left home after high school with nothing but his wits and his imagination, and he’d used them to attain worldwide fame and amass a vast fortune. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Police are stationed at the entrances of the high school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Richard was twenty-two, and one of the smartest people I knew, but he lacked a high school diploma. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More of both patrolled before the University of Islam high school, and the offices of the newspaper Muhammad Speaks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like somebody just out of high school, who’d flunked PE and hung out with the shop boys smoking at recess. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only 25 percent of all male students attended academic high schools and were expected to go on to college. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, Craig said that he didn’t want to go to some stupid high school dance since he had already graduated. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the innumerate high school principal who complains that most of his students score below his school’s median SAT score. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Setting: A table in a nondescript high school library. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Ears stuck out. Elbows stuck out. My voice didn’t drop till the summer before high school, when I shot up fourteen inches.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After finishing high school, Dandy went to work at a lumber mill, knowing that if he stayed in Georgetown, his options would never widen. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Very few high school directors could be more versed in theater, more knowing about what the finished product should look like. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She must have come straight from varsity cheering practice — she was one of only three eighth graders who got to practice with the high school squad — because she was wearing her uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, what ever happened to Jane—what was her last name? You know, your high school friend?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When Richie was fourteen he’d grown from a tittering, cackling torturer of me to a handsome, slick high school kid who was an outstanding tenor sax player. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few did not have high school degrees and elected courses to qualify for that degree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motivation for him to change his mind, they felt, was a desire to appease a constituency whipped into a frenzy over high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other reason was: They weren’t hiring anyone under eighteen now, on account of a new community service program they’d set up with the high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I virtually dropped out of high school after he died, failing every class. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On certain fortunate nights there were even places to go afterwards, and I scanned the bulletin boards eagerly for these meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, these performances of Brigadoon by the local high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yet because you are like a daughter to us,” she says, “we have decided to pay for your high school and your college. You will come back to live with us. Where you belong.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys stayed only until grade four, then headed to Iona, a combined middle-grade and high school that catered to students from grades five to twelve. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The rest, even if they did graduate from high school, were expected to take their place in the workforce immediately. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Richard was so fast that he got to work out with the high school track squad when he was only in seventh grade. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Friday and Saturday nights, to pay his tuition and help with the home finances, he played saxophone and clarinet in a swing band, the Blue Lyres, he had started in high school. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, it was usually packed with students from a dozen different elementary, middle, and high schools. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

An hour later, the University Interscholastic League, which sanctioned high school sports in the state, kicked Carter out of the playoffs and replaced it with Plano East. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his high school friends started experimenting with hard drugs, so did Mike, and he soon developed a heroin addiction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The high school team now got bused to his club after school, a short five-minute ride away. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A high school in Kenosha, Wisconsin, an outer suburb of Chicago, was another frequent Main Stage qualifier. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Five of those guillotines—borrowed from the public library, the community college, plus our own elementary and high schools—slice construction paper with machine-like efficiency. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

From one perspective, the quickest way to understand Crane, Texas, was by thumbing through the ad section of the high school yearbook. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were outgoing and confident, and transcended every high school clique. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This volunteer was Edgar Derby, the high school teacher who would be shot to death in Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really see Cabrillo Homes for what it was until I started high school, a few years later. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon graduation from high school, Chris was offered two full scholarships, one to Reed College in Oregon and the other to the University of Chicago. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Since some of my friends had been in the class for their entire high school career; each week, they had something new to say about the class and about Ms. Gruwell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The mere thought of apathetic high school kids taking advantage of Mrs. Parker made me cringe. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mama still kissed me on the cheek and rubbed my bald head when I was in high school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

These same qualities would cause me a lot of unnecessary heartbreak and grief in most of my adult relationships, but in high school, they set guys like Evan apart from the jocks and drama geeks. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My worries about high school, if they were to be cataloged, could mostly be filed under one general heading: Am I good enough? Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Afterward, a girl from another high school takes Bobby aside and asks if he’s gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Hayes first heard Marian sing, he urged her to start professional studies, but her family had no money for high school, let alone voice lessons. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for Gogol to be the name penned in calligraphy on his high school diploma, and printed below his picture in the yearbook, he’d begun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t even graduated high school, and this is the kinda stuff we have to deal with already.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His basketball skills transcended his years; he was only in fifth grade when high schools started to recruit him. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since the newspapers had praised them as the pioneers of the Cultural Revolution, every high school and college had organized Red Guards to rebel against the old system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minute after I graduate from high school I’ll be in my own apartment, me and Mike. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He told Volpe that great high schools had great theater programs that put on big, showy musicals, and that’s what he wanted. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

One year when I was in high school, Reverend Cross asked me to represent our church at the National Baptist Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Chris submitted to Walt’s authority through high school and college to a surprising degree, but the boy raged inwardly all the while. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appeal of standing in an open gym or high school auditorium to hear lofty promises and platitudes never made much sense to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Open hallways that rise three stories to the domes. Every classroom looks out into sunlit space. No one’s ever come up with that concept for a junior high school before.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

This is something I haven’t heard for years, not since high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest and John were too far apart in age to have shared their high school or college years, but personally they were close, writing each other at least once every couple of weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I pointed across the lake where the high school boys loitered on the pier and dove off the high board to show off for the girls. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tall, he’s short; I’m skinny, he used to be muscular, though most of it turned to fat after high school; I can count to five without using my fingers...Charlie has fingers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

One is Mama’s high school yearbook photo from forever ago that she gets all embarrassed about when anyone sees it. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They had stopped reading the Bible and Shakespeare since Neeley started high school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It feels like the real deal. I actually married my high school sweetheart. Did Ocean tell you?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first thing Jus notices when he pulls into the visitor lot of the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center is how much the building reminds him of a high school. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My high school experience blessedly cost us nothing except for bus fare. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As long as I can remember, Soojin’s been taking private dance lessons and talking about joining the dance team and competing in high school. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Catholic high school cost a lot, and Papa said nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is why I had a habit of debating my most religious friends in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I was your age: always about how he was doing way more than I am when he was in high school. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Number eight was that the best programmers Pembroke knew for that particular problem happened to be two high school kids. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At last a vision appeared, the familiar figure of the large and devoted collie that had been his pet when he was in high school. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know high school is rough, Henry, but blowing up the planet is never the answer.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was slow climbing the hill to the high school. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Ben later told Mary Anne it had been a banner day in his history as a high school student. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was the sort of girl who had had boyfriends in high school and often remarked that she wished she hadn’t wasted her time. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the time PJ. entered high school, the Warden’s appetite for more adventure took him to another auction. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“You know how the high school always has pep rallies for teams with a big game coming up? Helps everybody feel good. Gives them hope, especially when they’re facing someone with a way better record?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year I was the one student in his class whom he recommended for placement in a rapid advancement class in junior high school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sixth photo was a high school graduation picture of Dad, his Afro so big, it didn’t fit in the frame. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He walked in the nervous night past the high school and past the skating rink—a floor with a big tent over it, and a mechanical orchestra clanging away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If he were to add a polo shirt with a whistle around his neck, he’d look suspiciously like Mr. Connors, the thick-necked football coach at my high school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If you are in an Ivy League college and a Young Republican tells you that you got in only because of Affirmative Action, do not whip out your perfect grades from high school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I think high school’s bad for her,” she says to Mirrie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha took a stab at refusing to get a high school education as well, but it didn't work. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

After high school graduation, Reggie went to a year of college in Virginia, and to play basketball. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Joining the peculiar children would also mean I wouldn’t finish high school or go to college or do any of the normal growing-up things people do. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I mean, to act older. It is junior high school.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the biggest high school myth of all lime, Finn,” Dad said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“You finished high school a year early, right?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Haupt had been an apprentice optician since dropping out of high school a few years ago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I had read one of them, Platero and I, in high school. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one in America studies Latin until they’re in high school. You said so yourself. You were a high school teacher.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I don’t know. Before high school,” she tells me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In high school I had been able to handwrite ten- and twenty-page papers in little more than an hour—and I never revised what I wrote. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But at least we’ll be in high school together for four years,” she said, always one to find the bright side of matters. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Students mob us as we approach the high school. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

White Boy dropped out of high school to be a waiter. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I’d attended so many elementary schools and middle schools I couldn’t keep their names straight anymore but this, this switching high schools all the time thing was really starting to make me want to die. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is considered a permanent and inviolate feature of school life, like high school football or the senior prom. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached the high school, Armpit was already five minutes late for his test. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’ll finish high school, go to college, get my law degree, and be out of here. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is proud that her money pays Belky’s tuition at a private high school and eventually a college, to study accounting. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Bailey suggested that if I quit school before getting my high school diploma I’d find it nearly impossible to return. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dominance of football in Texas high schools had become the focus of raging debate all over the state in 1983. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By the time I graduated from high school there were eleven of us.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For a high school dropout like Ann, all this was heady stuff. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t really a scene for high school kids. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Good Boys, though wordy in parts, is nonetheless a great play for high school actors and audiences. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His firm wanted him to come into the office full-time after his graduation from high school, read law with them, and eventually take the bar exam. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large classes were graduating from both the grammar school and the high school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the marchers arrived from Selma, we were there to greet them,” said Gladis Williams, a Montgomery high school student and member of the welcoming committee. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still hysterical, crying the way she hadn’t in many years, maybe since high school graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It would mean he skipped his last year of high school, but that’s entirely possible considering how he spoke in incomprehensible scientific paragraphs when he got going. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Having a friend—even one who was older and went to high school—would open a door for me into another world. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There is a drawing for work he must complete by tomorrow, a cross section for a high school auditorium in Chicago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one who had forced Cole to go out for the swim team because that is what he himself had done in high school. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I guess this lady figures if two high school kids have the balls to go trick-or-treating this late at night in the nicest neighborhood in town, we deserve some candy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I just ran into an old friend from Nigeria. I haven’t seen him since high school,” she told Curt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She said that when her daughter was studying Shakespeare in high school, she took her to England. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I don’t think I’ll be a very good high school player. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to beg and plead with Uncle Clancey to let me live with them and finish high school in Cincinnati. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, maybe you’ll be in class together next year—in high school. Speaking of, any thoughts about where you want to go yet?” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s just another hallway; sometimes it looks just like your junior high school. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She was starting to worry that he wasn't coming at all—he could've gone to the wrong high school or changed his mind—when he honked for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I knew who she meant: a jokey dark-haired boy from the high school who never paid attention to anything in the pool. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a high school we can send you where you can study biology and chemistry which will prepare you for a career in nursing.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even though I moved through high school like a puppy lost in a coyote den, I had less fear of adults. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His long-lasting friendships with his high school buddies showed his consistency in relationships. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, his first scene with Bobby, when the shirts come off, causes the same reaction it had back at Truman, only louder—with perhaps six hundred high school girls shrieking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If we stayed in New York, it was almost certain I’d have to do an extra year of high school to finish. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A youth pastor named Jonboy used to roam around the buffet with a group of high school kids, smiling for the old ladies and asking if any of them needed work done on their lawns. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The junior high I'd opted to go to didn't feed into Lynbrook, but my parents insisted that I attend the same high school as my sister. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As fall continued, Barack and I began making plans for our move to a new house in January, having decided to stay in Washington so that Sasha could finish high school at Sidwell. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet the demand that she conceal this inner life was great, and by the time she entered high school she was expert at implying bodily a tranquillity that did not in fact inhabit her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Your friend Angela tried to run when she saw the police parked out in front of the high school. They caught her on a bus bound for Newark.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“How is it humanly possible that I have a daughter who’s starting her senior year in high school? How in the hell can my baby boy be starting second grade?” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go down through the layers, unearthing discoveries: my high school pictures, my lipsticked mouth unsmiling, somebody’s hair in an envelope, a single knitted baby sock. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from high school, de la O hung out on the street with the West Side Party Boys. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After that I would leave the baby with her for a while and come back to Montgomery and finish high school. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Think we should get a priest?” the other high school boy asked worriedly. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is my last year in high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Once and for all, Mama, I will not go to high school.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high school graduation photo that showed a mouth full of braces and a bad haircut, posted by a grandmother who had blogged a total of three times. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She really wants me to go to an HBCU—that’s a historically Black college or university—and I have to keep reminding her I’m not even in high school yet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You should know, your parents were in love. They were high school sweethearts, they were so head over heels with each other. It was a little disgusting, actually.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I begin to call Morrie “Coach,” the way I used to address my high school track coach. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped I wouldn’t see Eric or any of the other guys who had gone to junior high school with me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We were no different from my parents, both of whom had moved away and moved back to Lily within five years of graduating high school. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In high school, I played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our sole aim is to get the four high schools reopened and our students back in their classes.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I climb up in the bars under the bleachers at the high school. If we fell there we could die too.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Over the decades, without much acclaim beyond his community and the world of high school theater, Volpe has transformed lives, thousands of them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is a reminder that when your child is going to be absent from high school, a call is required by nine a.m. . . .” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rest of the parts are played by students in whatever high school they’re performing at that week. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I never knew people could care so much about the dramas surrounding high school basketball, but holy hell, it was apparently a very big deal. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kent Ford, Dickinson State University I am sure you will receive many letters from high school and college students. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mob marched on the high school there, pulled out all the German textbooks, and had a bonfire. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A former high school principal, Gallup had been educated in Michigan and Paris, and she loved Shakespeare as much as Elizebeth did. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He never graduated from high school, and being in and out of jail made it hard for him to get back on course, and get a real gig. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Well? Don’t you want to go to high school?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the most during junior high school and always cried. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Big Ma wouldn’t let girls from Uncle Darnell’s high school come calling, she wouldn’t hardly let me use the telephone to call a boy long-distance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long before David was talking all about the high schools being closed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Mr. Likens, the Coalwood School principal, controlled the junior high school with a firm hand, the Great Six held sway in the grades below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A big boy, the sort who played football in high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I miss how even in high school, you still called Cheerios “Cheer-di-ohs,” like you did when you were a kid. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had hoped that when I finished high school I would get a job and help her keep the house together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I felt like dying and was going to drop out of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our friendship hadn’t suffered from the gaps of high school, like many did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But things started to sour for Megan, and in her relationship with her parents, in high school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Neither of my parents had finished high school; my mother did wear pants suits, which she purchased at a factory outlet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a high school friend told some stories about Gus’s considerable basketball talents and his many qualities as a teammate, the minister said, “We’ll now hear a few words from Augustus’s special friend, Hazel.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Those who lose jobs or decline promotions to let the children finish high school where they currently are sometimes relocate in place. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lester was built like an ox, which made him look more like a man than the high school kid he still was. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In high school I went to several dances, but I never managed to ask a girl to dance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he’d be entering high school the following September, that transition, exciting to many youngsters, was of little interest to him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She has platinum blond hair and used to be a cheerleader in high school. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He’d been a high school teacher before the communists fired him—this was shortly after the coup of 1978, about a year and a half before the Soviets had invaded. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Adam continued, “Today I met Mr. Kilkenny—you know, from the high school? He thought I knew all about it. Do you know what that boy is doing?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even reached double digits yet, and he had a detailed account of every high school boy I loved. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be setting up some sort of camp behind the high school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

To the right stood a decaying high school with a grassless campus. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cabot’s cousin, Josh, who was still in high school, walked into his bedroom one afternoon and sat down on the bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was his last high school girlfriend before college. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

For most of high school, I had to go over to Izzy's house to type my papers, because we couldn't afford a computer. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Brian told everyone he had to keep his weight down because he wanted to join the wrestling team when he got to high school. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Did she ever date anyone when she was in high school? Or even after she left town?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our high school was equipped with showers and a well-stocked cafeteria. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One of the old hospital buildings was now a food bank; others housed the Police Criminal Investigation Division, an alternative high school, and a Rotary club. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

What did she see, young girl like that, barely out of high school, with unbraided hair, lip rouge for the first time and high-heeled shoes? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he also understood the world of high school football: when Boobie got hurt, he became obsolete. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love your mind, Chelsea Spencer. I’m excited we get one more year in high school together.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Kids who weren’t into school were unlikely to choose Maybeck, a private high school with roughly a hundred kids that rented space on two floors of a Presbyterian church in Berkeley. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They reached the high school to find the door was propped open, so they walked in and headed straight to the memorial. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I will graduate from high school, go to college, get married, have kids. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I didn't graduate from high school," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe likes him and is confident that Moore, whose son had been in theater at the local Catholic high school, values the drama program. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had a bunch of them there from high school. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In mid-June 2011, the cast members of Good Boys and True receive their high school diplomas at the traditional commencement on the football field. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He explains that he views Truman as distinctly different from the wealthier high schools in the county. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A senior at a small private high school, the teenager identifies as agender—neither male nor female. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You don’t seem much like a junior in high school yourself,” I noted. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In front of them was a long table with the two models for the new junior high school, each one covered with a white sheet, like they were some sort of national secret. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I even wish I was still in high school and attending one of Mr. Kalampoukas’s classes because he always made me feel seen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Girls High was way ahead of Suffolk High and I never would’ve graduated on time, so after the school year ended I returned to Virginia to finish high school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way that high school theater bears some similarity to professional theater, or any kind of show business, is that ticket sales matter. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s all elbows and angles, even in his high school team jacket. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because I was only twelve years old when I started high school, but I could already feel some of my friends gravitating in a different direction. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Blond, healthy, stout Lida, who swam on her high school swim team. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She is a part of the Earth Day Club here in high school, and that is where she meets the boys. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Because of such an attitude, Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country—pro, college, or high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This young man's father,” he said, “was the smartest student in my high school chemistry class!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The newspapers had pointed out that the fourolds were also reflected in clothing, and now high school students had taken responsibility for eliminating such dress. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This might sound weird. But, um. Back in high school, did we have, like, a thing? Did I miss that?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We turned at Seagull Way and drove to the south entrance of the high school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It always felt like they had something better to do, and that unlike the rest of us, they understood that high school was an unnecessary social construct. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“At the high schools. The county executive hasn’t taken a strong enough stance against it, in my opinion. And my opinion counts. At least today.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there were groups of the sort of people who probably weren’t popular in high school. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’m never going to go to high school again. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was kind of nervous about what was going to happen if Byron ever got out of sixth grade and went to junior high school before I caught up to him. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If high school is that important to you, just go,” she’d say after I’d explained yet again how much I dreamed about just being a “normal” teenager. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Back at Chad, Richard earned his high school diploma and then began taking vocational classes, earning certificates in programs like Irrigation Design and Forklift Driving. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to see to it that each of my children have three,” said Evy, “grade school, high school and college.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By age twelve, I was traveling an hour and a half one way to junior high school by myself, taking two buses each direction every day. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my freshman year of high school wasn't just a significant turning point in my relationship with Samira. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He would do that whenever there was a big game in high school or the prom or something. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The hoisters were three or four high school kids. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Louie was already the fastest high school miler in American history, and he was improving so rapidly that he had lopped forty-two seconds off his time in two years. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Why not live in a smaller, generic town house in a less expensive part of south San Jose that was twenty minutes farther from all my friends, my job, and my high school? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He studied construction and graduated in November 2008 with his high school diploma. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There is no force in high school more powerful than one person’s blunt disagreement. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I was just thinking that I wrote to you first because I was afraid about starting high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He joined the air force soon after he graduated from high school, and he and my grandma first met when he was stationed at a military base in San Antonio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were high-school seniors, and the clock was ticking: once out of high school all American males faced two years of compulsory military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly, at the camp high school, I'm learning about where I come from, the peculiar yesterdays of my people. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I wish you smoked. I don’t know why you don’t. You weren’t an athlete in high school or anything, were you?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’m one of the few dozen white kids at my high school. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She then explained about all the things you have to go through to prove it, especially in high school when the boy and girl are popular and still in love. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he always heard about Jeff, winning all the prizes at high school graduation, a scholarship to college. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In high school, organized interschool sports moved from Friday afternoons to Saturdays. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

He returned to Berkeley the following Friday, though he arrived too late to make his son Robert’s high school graduation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Nor did I consider my male teachers in high school effeminate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So smart that her high school teachers had raised money to provide her with a college scholarship. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They call it “going out” in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The citizenship test is really tough. Even high school students don’t know all the facts we’re tested on.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they don’t even wait till they’re out of high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

An exceptional trumpet player may be able to play — with good sound and technique — high notes that the average high school trumpet player cannot play at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In addition to some understanding of algebra, geometry, and analytic geometry, high school students should be exposed to some of the most important ideas of so-called finite mathematics. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she gave in and said yes to Orpheus Fisher, who had been courting her tirelessly since their high school days. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Latin and algebra were necessary for high school, so she had her daughters tutored by Archdeacon Hay. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was like all of sudden high school became...high school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Evidently, every high school student would now have to perform community-service hours every semester in order to graduate, effective immediately. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My team lost, and just like that, my high school baseball career is over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Clark could not fail to see that the crowd that evening included a large number of teenagers, students at Hudson High, Selma’s all-black high school. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ladies’ auxiliary of the Rotary Club canceled the azalea contest which was to be held in the gymnasium of the high school. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he looks like he goes to high school. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On the day of the trip, as we’re lining up outside the high school, I’m disappointed to see that Mr. Gore is chaperoning along with Mr. Jefferies. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd left Lynbrook for a program called "middle college," where high school seniors could take classes at the local community college, and his absence finally allowed me to focus on other guys. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He got a list of every high school and university in each river town, and cross-referenced everyone who had been on a swim team for the past twenty years or had registered for a triathlon. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not when he finally found a high school, his fourth, that let him graduate instead of kicking him out for drinking and fighting and chronic truancy. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The countess marched Katherine down to the resorts kitchen, and for the rest of the summer, the high school student spent her lunchtime in conversation with the Greenbrier’s Parisian chef. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. Darwin decided to take Charles out of high school since he wasn’t making much use of it anyway. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In high school he pursued track, pushing himself so hard he’d throw up at the finish line, and played tennis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I saw her dressed up only once, the day I graduated from high school. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guidance department always has their flyers posted, but I ain’t never heard of anyone actually going there for high school. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There had been a colored girl in one of Judy’s classes last year at Central High School, the best high school in all of Arkansas. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I myself never finished high school. Not any sense in it for some girls.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A young white male wearing baggy pants, standing in front of his high school and surrounded by his friends, might well be ignored by police officers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Intriguingly, the chess tables crossed class barriers: One might find Wall Street bankers playing against homeless men from Skid Row, or Ivy Leaguers facing down high school dropouts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is, in high school most of the boys lived in Ogdentown, and those of us who came on the bus were regarded as outsiders—hillbillies, in fact, and not fashionable. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was the spotlight the Littleton, Colorado, killings has put on the fact that for so many individualistic, intelligent, and vulnerable kids, high school is a Hellmouth of exclusion, cruelty, loneliness, inverted values, and rage. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has to do with the state championship for baseball when he was in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s our last high school basketball season—last shot—so we train hard. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If an IV solution normally used in hospitals and at the scene of accidents was now being used during the halftime of a high school football game to ease complaints of exhaustion, so be it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Becca was still two grades behind me, at least Marissa and I would be going to the same high school that fall. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It looked just like a big, sprawling high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

After all, it wasn’t like she had many career options without a high school diploma. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My brother, Richie, was seventeen years old and a junior in high school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Auntie Annie’s food was delicious because she was a professional chef who made up the menus and cooked for the white high schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I didn’t argue with my parents too much about dating in high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was quarterback on the Muscatine high school football team, a starting guard in basketball, the president of his class and its valedictorian. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We were dressed in woolens, so we opened the windows before sitting down for the ride to the high school. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. We throw this high school a big middle finger.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I want to do that when I get to high school!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Once I got out of high school and found that I wasn’t in jail, I thought I was in the clear. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were unaware that Bobby had read literature in high school, and for his own enjoyment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He and Papi went to high school together back in the day, but after that, Manny went to a trade school and found his calling in clogged drainage. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My dad took my mother to her high school prom, even. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We have over two thousand students because we’re the only high school for miles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Back then they all went to high school on the Southside, had their own stadium, and as long as they stayed put there was no problem. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We split up by age—the adult class, the high school class, the middle school class, and then there’s a class for the younger kids, and a nursery for the babies. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It had drawn people to him in high school, made him friends, and even helped him eke out a living in Sequim. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When he came to our high school and spoke to the student body, his words reverberated in my mind like drumbeats. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be too old for high school if we have to listen to all those people,” I whispered aloud. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With three and a half weeks left of high school, we weren’t very well going to renickname him. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t necessary to live in Odessa for long to realize that the Permian football team wasn’t just a high school team but a sacrosanct white institution. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was playing in a large high school auditorium that echoed with phlegmy coughs and the squeaky rubber knobs of chair legs sliding across freshly waxed wooden floors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were something like twenty Long Island junior high schools here, and some of them even had uniforms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They’ve got the swimming pool on total lockdown...because high school pools were the only ones that were excluded from the Frivolous Use Initiative. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Sounds good to me. I took this gig because I thought it was hilarious. Wish I'd thought of this in high school.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had been thinking for months now about what to name this child, mentally combing through all the people she’d known, the books she’d read in high school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If you had walked through the pleasant Tuscan countryside in the 1890’s, you might have come upon a somewhat long-haired teenage high school dropout on the road to Pavia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, she made the leap herself back in high school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Knowing this from my own days of being a hijabi high school athlete, I always made sure to submit Faizah’s paperwork early, at the start of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

How many scared parents have taken the time to introduce their child to the items that kept them sane in high school? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very pretty high school girl leaned out and called, “Something I can do for you?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Scott took the city bus to high school, not a school bus like George did. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Volpe gave it to her because “at her best, she is remarkable. There are few high school girls who I can even imagine in this role, but she is fully capable of pulling it off.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boys, who normally sported their high school letter sweaters, were dressed in smart brown military uniforms and jaunty hats. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Well, I have about four hours before we land in LAX, so I’m going to sit here and tell you a story of how my life was changed by this “little” high school teacher . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was decreed that incoming freshmen could apply to virtually any high school in the district. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And I knew JP was going to pout like this for the rest of the year—maybe the rest of high school entirely. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad and I drove up to the high school tonight to hear about the emergency relocation plan. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

First high school to do Rent, and they’ll be getting to Spring Awakening when they get home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Those five years, from eighth grade through the end of high school, were Bill Gates’s Hamburg, and by any measure, he was presented with an even more extraordinary series of opportunities than Bill Joy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Pictures of the band, in their bow ties and jackets, appeared in the high school yearbook for 1943-1944, along with pictures of just about everything else in camp that year. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was already planning where he would go after high school; he was already talking about the places he would live, and the reservation wasn’t one of them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oui,” you tell him, utilizing the summation of almost three years of high school French. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

But when he started, the first few minutes, it sounded like a high school essay—topic sentences followed by explanations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The reason I wrote this letter is because I start high school tomorrow and I am really afraid of going. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He made a point of driving to the high school several times a day, particularly at those times when he knew she’d be moving between buildings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When we got on the bus, Audrey kept busy on her phone, texting with her cousin Sylvia, who lived in San Francisco and was in high school. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The same thing was happening in high schools in every state. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had a way of making me feel like we were the same age, even though I was still in high school and she was a workingwoman in her twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since we had gained that much education, the high school teachers assumed that we were educable. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that why you and Grandma used to always go back to Tennessee for your high school reunions?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Schoolchildren, from first graders to high school seniors, stood up straight and tall in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church sanctuary and offered themselves as “living sacrifices”3 to the cause of freedom and fairness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A marked contrast to my first Junior Olympics in high school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course they’re racing. I used to sail down at Sea Island when I was in high school. Or rather my boy friends used to take me sailing.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson had wanted to be a journalist her entire life, long before the aptitude tests their guidance counselor had administered in high school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The summer before I started high school he made me go with him to one of the new stores on Sunday afternoons to help restock the shelves and the bins. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed all of Little Rock’s high schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad boasted that Erik was the only sophomore in his high school ever to receive one. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his wife lived over on Riverside Drive; he was headed home now; they’d been married for nine years; they’d met as high school sweethearts; they didn’t have any children. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It takes four local high schools to field a single football team: the Jefferson- Scranton-Paton-Churdan Rams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure, that kind of thing happens in the NBA and in college and in the big high schools. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday evening, March 28, the Amity Harbor High School senior ball—its theme this year was “Daffodil Daze”— went forward in the high school auditorium. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about Rear Admiral Hill, the former superintendent of the Naval Academy, who served as the president of Valley Forge in my last three years of high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I was out with my dad, helping him with a few jobs when we ran into your mom at the gas station. I guess they went on a few dates in high school.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

No one at my high school knew much about Iran and mostly associated my culture with terrorism and magic carpets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

At Bethune, the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders—about twenty of them—were housed in the same little room near the entrance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentine and I had to cross the bridge to the parking lot in front of the high school, but I don’t remember that either. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They treat me very well. And I don’t know how I go about it. Sometimes I even have to rent a hall and advertise, sometimes I speak to the principal of the high school.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a few months short of a high school degree, but I have a portfolio of landscapes now, both virtual and painted, and I’m going to make a business out of painting wealthy people’s houses. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The organizers asked me to speak at a high school on the outskirts of Stockholm. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One was square-jawed, wide-shouldered, great hair, looked like he had played football in high school, badly bitten fingernails, the other had a receding hairline, silver-rimmed round glasses, manicured nails. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t surprise him if, after high school, Bri entered a convent. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Roberto suggested that I wear blue jeans because most boys wore them in high school, but I did not want to wear the same type of pants I wore to work. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Ty'ree had gone to a special high school for smart kids. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“This could be good practice for when you want to run in high school. When do you have to decide by?” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he finished high school, though, he decided this would be too great a drain on the family finances, and would interfere with his sisters’ studies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He said it was stirring. That’s a lot more than just happy. You have to pay attention. You really embarrass me. You—” The sight of some high school students distracted me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Marina graduated from high school in 1929, her focus on chemistry helped her find a job as an apprentice in a dye factory, and six months later she became a full technician. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to do like these other mothers and brag about, ‘My baby graduated from high school!’” she said the other day. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Judy chattered on about the classes they had started broadcasting on TV for all the high school students. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I know about her from Jupe: she does a lot of social justice stuff—organizes protest marches and goes around to high schools, ours included, to get students “active in their communities.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I said I shouldn’t even be in college, that I should be made to finish high school first. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her older sister was in West Side Story, last year’s high school musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m in high school, Mom. In the twenty-first century. I don’t have to get married by the time I’m twenty-two or risk becoming an old maid.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"You know I lived with him in high school." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It begins at a high school in Burnt Mill Creek, California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I never mind those times, those fifteen-minute inquiries into what he was like in high school or the Yankees. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I swear to God, there’s nothing more toxic than a suburban high school in March. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Truman Drama will not perform for another three days.The kids attend workshops and scholarship auditions, watch the performances of other high schools, and go to dances at night. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Still, she has an aura of mystery that stops her from being teased or singled out for typical high school unpleasantness. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Asher was the head librarian at the local high school, so he had summers off. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it would have been a very big deal if it had been a real, sanctioned game. But they supposedly played in the middle of the night at one of the high school courts.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mind was busy with other things, like whether I’d still be the only kid wearing a hijab in high school and what classes I’d be able to take. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

"Eliza has a crush on a new boy in her class, and Victor has been named goalkeeper for his high school's team." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Matrix came out while I was in high school and it was my favorite movie at the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She jabbered incessantly about the song she’d been playing, what she thought of our mother’s mushroom soup, how much she wanted to go to high school. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As I passed over the familiar terrain, I glanced down at the twin cities of Baltimore and Washington, where I had gone to high school and where my mother still lived. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He responded by kicking Reggie off the tennis team—in the middle of the season—and threatened to send Siobhan away for her last year of high school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On top of his papers and framed photographs is Eduardo’s goldtone ballpoint pen, obviously a family gift, maybe from high school graduation, and here’s the little boy taking it, writing slowly in the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two soldier boys in green uniforms who didn’t look any older than Uncle Darnell—high school cap and gown one day, army boots and basic training four days later. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We was just down to a couple still in high school, but we always had dinner together as a family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had read Main Street when I was in high school, and I remember the violent hatred it aroused in the countryside of his nativity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first she integrated the high school in her town. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

No matter what I said to Heather and her entourage, they would still walk away thinking it was my race and not my high school record that got me into college. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So anyone with depth of thought is almost automatically excluded from the main high school social structure. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entire classes of high school boys were drafted into the antiaircraft auxiliary. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three with doctorates, and the four without high school diplomas. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I dropped out of high school after Christmas my senior year. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Quincy and me met up at the high school with Ms. Evans and our new counselor, Ms. Delamino. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He’d graduated from a public high school in the city and worked summers as a lifeguard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young females in tiny dresses, their breaths and bellies sucked in, trooped across to say hello to him and to flirt, asking if he remembered them, Ashleigh's friend from high school, Ashleigh's roommate in college. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s a very competitive science magnet high school, and I worked very hard to get into it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“In spite of remarkable intervening circumstances,” I said, “if Rachel ever gets back to Bethlehem for a high school reunion she will win the prize for ‘Changed the Least.”’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mother who attended the play with her high school daughter complained about it in a memorable letter to the local newspaper. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As we talk, he projects an uncommon self-assurance; not a high school boy’s bluster, but a quality deeply ingrained. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were like a catching sickness, and their coming to the party made all the other people forget about high school and being almost grown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My uncle was still in high school then. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

To the north it includes nearly all of the high school football bleachers that back up onto the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her article in the high school paper has hit it big in eastern Washington. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So after Elizabeth finished high school, her father encouraged her to enjoy her social life and learn “how to keep house and make puddings.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Looks like the high school has a baseball team.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could’ve been greeting them in the high school locker room. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That’s not to say I did terrible in high school—I got 93’s. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I knew I should prepare, try to acquire the high school education Tyler had told the university I had. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And suddenly he wasn’t a high school football player at all, but a high school kid with absolutely no idea of what he was going to do with his life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she says, “So—in elementary and middle school, I was the only Native person in my neighborhood. But that changed when I got to high school.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the junior high school admissions policy has been changed,” Teacher Gu said. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A photo in a magazine might remind her of Carolines high school graduation, the way she’d mugged for the camera like she just knew this was the beginning of a fabulous adventure. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I know enough not to bring lunch on the first day of high school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

While on the march she met Cyril Pustan, an Englishman who was a high school teacher and journeyman plumber. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The main building of the middle school and all the buildings of the high school have been certified as “structurally safe” by a team of engineers hastily assembled by Old Charley Burns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I were both in high school at the time, and we quickly found ways to make wearing black a fashion statement. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I have one from when you were in high school, but I want to know what you look like now.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie had a job at the APlus, which Dad said was “too weird,” seeing he got a job at a convenience store when he was in high school, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It only got worse in high school, where there were more spelling and essays tests, with more complicated words that seemed too impossible to memorize. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s high school and he’s hot. Enough said.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And, Lord, please help this high school if I got to make any substitutions. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I would be taking hot showers in college, just like I did in my P.E. classes in high school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They lived too far away to attend any of the few high schools open to black students. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh! So you’re in high school, right? Her girl’s from high school, isn’t she?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Too many high school girls are built like boys. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mayday used to be a distress signal, a long time ago, in one of those wars we studied in high school. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched straight ahead and made crisp turns without looking over to family members, girlfriends, and even a high school football team that had come in team jackets to wave them off. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“And you’re not the only one who hates high school, you know? You didn’t invent that.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In 1977, after graduating from high school as a sixteen-year-old at the top of his class, he moved to Fairbanks and made Alaska his permanent home. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teaching requirements were easy: graduation from high school and two years at Teachers Training School. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it was true, all three had finished high school. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many in the audience, this was the first high school graduation they had ever attended. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sure, he would have liked having a girlfriend, and he knew a lot of the boys at Vincent de Paul dated girls from Holy Angels or even from the public high schools. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A hard-hitting linebacker and captain on the football team who left the field and refused to return when a brawl erupted in his final high school game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Hazelwood Tigers always made the high school playoffs. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our high school is playing against another school in a big basketball game. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Or the suburban high school student who has a drinking problem but keeps getting behind the wheel? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Nikki’s hands were full with her own turbulent high school experience, which was about to come to a close. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them look like people I wouldn’t have gone out with in high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That baby grew her up, and certain things about high school suddenly seemed a lot less important. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It paid off! I graduated high school at sixteen. But, then, one year shy of an MBA...” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the high school, electives of all kinds were eliminated, and some seniors who were on course to meet graduation requirements were encouraged to just leave school at midday after taking their core courses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pretend that high school relationships last into college. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine another term with this woman, and as long as I stayed on the honors English track I would be stuck being the spokesperson for the rest of my high school career. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If she kept up that no-BS mentality, his sister would survive high school without a problem. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had friends from Sidley, friends from high school, friends developed through professional networking, and friends I’d met through Craig, who was newly married and making his living as an investment banker in town. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He lost the tip in high school while not paying attention during shop. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In September, Gogol returns to high school to begin his junior year: honors biology, honors U.S. history, advanced trigonometry, Spanish, honors English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About 6,200 students attend Bristol Township’s public schools, either at Truman High, the district’s lone high school, or one of its two middle schools or nine elementaries. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were going to wait until high school and try out for the dance team.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A new record was set for the three-mile run for a Long Island school that afternoon—and I'm including high schools here. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Arnold Jones had apparently forgotten one of the cardinal rules of survival in the West End: Never let yourself be near Finsterwald’s and high school kids at the same time. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room tone is as belligerent as a classroom in an alternative high school. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And it wasn't for my high school social circle. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of high school, I landed a barista gig at a popular local cafe, and Kia came to work with me almost daily. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This was back when I was a sophomore in high school, before she’d taken her job at the bank. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Andy Horowitz, his close high school friend and cross-country teammate, bumped into Chris among the stacks early one morning just before graduation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Els,” David says in his I’m in high school, so I know everything voice, “that is our whole family’s MO.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

That’s how high school dances are these days, in case you didn’t know. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“If it will make you stop crying and complaining about this, then just go to high school, Simone.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Being in high school, she knew something of parliamentary procedure, and thought it might be a good idea to have the chairman represent the common people. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hula hoops, stuffed animals, ruler of the world—high school sounded a lot more fun than the fourth grade. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Suffolk High had this graduation ceremony where the seniors lined up in their caps and gowns outside the high school and marched onto Main Street double file to the Protestant church for a ceremony. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too nervous to try again, although I later sent him my high school graduation picture. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Besides my class moving up to senior status, there were other changes at the high school. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jamaica had no public high schools or universities. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He and Leila had met in high school in nearby Box Elder County, and ever since, they had walked, biked, and read together, and enjoyed each other’s company, often with few words exchanged. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Going back in Christ Temple is like when you go back to your old elementary school after you’ve been to high school. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The management veteran McClellan was a doctor’s son, just out of high school, when he decided he did not need to go much farther than the big factory at the edge of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic accounts they were based on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since Finn was only fifteen at the time, Sean opted to stay with his brother until Finn finished high school. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Sizwe and I graduated from high school, we couldn’t get jobs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Looming over the modest waiting room was the Great Seal of Michigan, in vivid Technicolor, painted, probably, by some high school art class. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Earle Grey Players come to our high school, as they do every year. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then again, maybe you knew the same people when you went to your high school dances, if you know what I mean. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

With the schedule had come a map of the high school- middle school campus, which I appreciated, and a handwritten note to Mom from Mrs. Gates, which I did not. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her youngest child started high school, my mother got a full-time office job once again. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was in college, I kept up with a few of my high school friends, most especially Santita, who’d landed at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Jamie’s great. I mean, we don’t hang out much or anything. He’s a year ahead of me, and we don’t go to the same high school.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

What was Sasha passionate about when they were a senior in high school? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I'd always felt bad for her, because she was on the heavier side, and I imagined that wasn't an easy way to go through high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I found out that she was a high school junior, an honor student. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had met him years ago, in her final months of high school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I get to high school? I’m gonna start a petition against it. Freshman year.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

When Adam graduated from high school last spring and moved out of his parents’ place and into the House of Rock, I hadn’t expected much to change. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s probably got enough credits already to graduate from high school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther on some teen-agers halfheartedly chopped at weeds along an irrigation ditch behind the junior high school football field bleachers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama was worth a lot, and before she finished high school they had promised her to the upright son of a well-to-do farmer in the territory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parsimonious father doesn’t understand that a senior in high school shouldn’t have a full-time job. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s someone who graduated, I tell myself; maybe it’s someone I’ll meet next year in high school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Silly me, I was in storeroom B-376 of the high school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Tullahoma was where Momma and Wynn had grown up, where my daddy had gone to high school, and where I was born. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He pushed me aside and he and another high school boy turned Florence on his stomach. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This woman lived in the next county over from him and Grandma Nell, and Daddy didn’t even know about Minerva until he was in high school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Silas was one of Jimmy’s oldest friends from high school, two-thirds of a group of hell-raisers that were still legendary in Catawba County. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Why would I go to the Jewish high school?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Together, we’d figure out the high school social scene and—let’s be real—we wanted to have some fashion fun too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She attended high school in the suburbs of Seattle and was a second-year student studying sociology at the University of Washington when she first saw Shin in a YouTube video. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I knew this was not what I wanted to do with my life, and I remembered my high school writing teacher’s advice: “Whatever you do, don’t stop writing.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

No wonder Rudy didn't have hangups, no wonder his high school acne hadn't left him riddled with self-doubt, his name hadn't cowed him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And in high school, I learned how to read and write Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the yearbook clears up another high school mystery—why all the popular girls put up with the disgusting habits of Todd Ryder. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they’ll let you become an adult. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was an excitement in the air, as some were applying to a program at Yale that allowed them to skip their senior year in high school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Amina, you can only make a difference if you get involved, right? And I want to run in high school, so I need experience.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a big deal because Quinton was always gone once he got that fancy job after high school. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

During high school I used to wander out to the garage from the house to read or just get away after one of the countless arguments I had with my father. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy’s son Robert had a lot of trouble in high school, but then he joined the famous Green Berets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Finish up high school at night," said Alfred. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer of 1983, I graduated from high school at the age of twenty, by far the oldest senior tossing his mortarboard on the football field that day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I mean,I knew I played trumpet really well, and I'd even taken some private lessons over the summer with this cool high school girl named Emerson. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Photos of him plastered the wall, the biggest being of his high school graduation, right under the framed takbir, and alongside the Iraqi flag. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I embarked on this book, I naively assumed that Volpe’s actors would probably be among the top students at their not-so-great high school, high achievers across the board. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And in time, we had six children; moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house, and lived the dream—high school football on Friday nights. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They treated me like I got pregnant in high school, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It turns out that, in high school, not painting your toenails is considered disgusting. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the high school guys who had cars decorated them. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I want to get out. Do something different with my life. But I’m not sure what. I’m not going back to high school. I’m too old for that. But I’m tired of running these streets.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

ZIP was supposed to stand for Zoned for Individual Progress, but all the kids called it the Underground Railroad because it was the last stop you made before you dropped out of high school. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d grown up together, and now they were in high school, full of sass and fire. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lawrence went into business for himself, opening a convenience store in the basement of an old townhouse; Sonny had graduated from high school, joined the air force, and grown into a handsome ladies’ man. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That girl is a suburban dad’s midlife crisis in a high school senior’s body. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Ever since third grade I had been counting on getting into Shi-yi, one of the best junior high schools in Shanghai. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, because of their souring relationship, Megan had asked her mother not to come to her high school graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I never got more free time to read all during high school, but I did learn to read for enjoyment. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We ran past other junior high schools and got jeered at by baseball players who warmed up with a couple of sprints and then shagged balls the rest of the afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The pundits weren’t meeting teams of high school “Barack Stars,” who volunteered after football practice or drama club. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Freedom Writers also had the privilege to meet and bond with prestigious people and some New York City high school students. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, he's in high school and he owns a Porsche, right? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a year following his graduation from high school, he rowed obsessively—up and down the channel on foggy days and on long voyages out among the San Juan Islands on sunny days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was a kid who’d failed freshman year at the regular public high school because she never showed up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We could look in the high school library tomorrow.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and I got into a bad fight when we were in high school, and we’ve been estranged ever since. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

After I use the bathroom for the billionth time, I finally find Lorena in the back porch, surrounded by a circle of cretins who are way too old to be at a high school party. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And in high school, people are always watching so there’s always a reason to pose. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Bobby is smart, too, though not as academic as his older sister, a high school valedictorian and the rare Truman graduate to advance to an elite university. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As a senior in high school, Sasha was still inventing languages, hanging out online with other “conlangers”—people who construct languages of their own. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Once, when a high school teacher asked students to list their goals for the next decade, she wrote, “having a college degree” and “not being married.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As my high school career was coming to an end, I was still being avidly recruited by college programs. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That would be our absolute top priority, to get you a good education, high school then college. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

That is how many of them had passed through twelve years of grammar and high school, in the end still needing to be considered culturally disadvantaged. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her high school years, Marian continued to sing at church and social events and, increasingly, at concerts out of town. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

It had been a foregone conclusion on my father’s part and on mine that I would go on to there after high school for my bachelor’s degree. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Somebody must have picked up my older sister and brother at the high school so they can say good-bye to the Garcías, too. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Coach Gainer had warned us boys in health class about the hormones that surged through our bodies when we got in high school. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My school, Dunbar, was to become a junior high school only. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The team had moved to Civic Field, a high school football stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

No one at my high school knew it, but I wasn't meant to live in the suburbs. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Coaches, high school and college alike, teachers—even though he was barely a C student—and of course girls, who might as well be invisible for all the game Luke had. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If you want to see a teenage illegal immigrant's already fragile self-esteem hit rock bottom, just take them to get their passport photo at a location where they might run into someone from high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But he was a high school football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Auntie Gemma had him for social studies and homeroom in high school, and Lola often invites him and his husband to our parties. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You screamed first! Just leave me alone, okay? You’ve been really good about leaving me alone my whole life, so why you choose high school to suddenly be interested I have no idea. . . .” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He’s older than we are—in high school at least. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. No high school. But maybe I can get in if I tell them I don’t want a diploma or any grades—that I just want the lessons.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can’t have a high school without any electives,” he said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then we will dance the night away beneath the streamers decorating the high school gymnasium.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of all the things she couldn't pack, imagining the slim green locker she would have had at high school next year if she weren't moving to the other side of the ocean. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1957, after nine years of classes in the Coalwood School, I went across the mountains to Big Creek, the district high school, for the tenth through the twelfth grade. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

After leaving the high school, Candice spent the next few hours in her room looking through the Wallace yearbooks again, hoping to find anyone who could have been James Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When she used that squeaky, nasally voice, felt as if I was strapped in a car seat with a bottle rather than being a year away from high school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“In high school one of my nicknames was Spacey Faraci because I always had my head in the clouds.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“How can we be dangerous to the state? A poet, a chiropractor, and a high school senior?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

A world where too much cleavage on a high school girl was still disarming. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I was mostly at work, but I was there when I needed to be. Junior, do you remember when I had to visit your principal at the high school?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Yi always came directly upstairs, and none of my junior high school friends knew where I lived. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Philadelphia Inquirer once named him its high school athlete of the week, and Holy Ghost would induct him into its sports hall of fame. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This year, Chiron had put the satyrs on emergency overtime and sent them all over the country, scouring schools from fourth grade through high school for possible recruits. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He was a compliant Catholic schoolboy who sold furniture at a department store to help pay for college before taking a job at a suburban high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The flyer said Brotherhood Week at the top, and there were four little buildings drawn with the names of the four closed high schools on them: Central, Horace Mann, Hall and Tech. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also called teachers in other high schools who had sent students to the nationals, just to get some tips on how to prepare and present. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

More important: there were people who’d built their careers on the back of the high school basketball team. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She comforted him by saying, “They’re high school kids. What do they know?” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I wanted desperately to play football in high school and I never got the opportunity,” he said. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t an irrational thought, for there was no profession in the state of Texas with worse job security than that of high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I got my high school diploma, I left California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“You got a sweet game for high school,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted her son to do well in high school, enter a prestigious university, and get down and do some real work. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, she was in high school going through the things high school girls go through, playing tennis and learning piano, and when Tateh was divorcing Mameh she got lost in all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A high school, he believes, is composed of “the three A’s”: the highly academic kids, the artists, and the athletes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I managed to graduate from high school, and I began taking classes to be a nurse. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He offers a kind of backhanded compliment: There’s a “snob factor” at Truman’s neighboring high schools that does not exist here. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

From the twenties through the eighties, whatever else there hadn’t been in Odessa, there had always been high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped out of high school in England and took the GED here and now is a freshman at Lost Cove U. studying mostly literature, art history, and photography. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The “new” high school, built in 1939 to accommodate 180 students, had been obsolete almost from its beginning. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Upon graduation from high school, able-bodied Hitler Youth were required to serve six months in the Reich Labor Service, without exception. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Things went from bad to worse at the beginning of the school year because my brother and sister were both in high school and I was stuck in that yawning chasm of nothingness, middle school. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was in high school when my father told me.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have said that there were two good things about the high school program. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out the new schoolbag and pencil box I had bought for junior high school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dreams of becoming an accountant were shattered after my great-grand- mother did not let her go to high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach twists as Mama explains that the people who attacked the mosque were a bunch of teenagers, seniors in high school from Sheboygan who were eventually caught, thanks to an anonymous tip. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I was the ultimate champion for a while, until a high school guy showed up and knew how to counter my electricity move with Chun-Li’s heel stomp. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For his part, Daniel finishes high school but declines Yale. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was to be at four o’clock in the high school administration building. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Of the roughly six hundred African American boys who started Oakland high schools as freshmen each year, only about three hundred ended up graduating. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My mom never talked about her life before high school. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I just found out that we are going to be an official class our senior year of high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a huge facility, a place for the casual workout experience, but also a facility where professional athletes—and high school and college ones—could work out, play ball, lift weights. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Less than half of all African children of school age attended any school at all, and only a tiny number of Africans were graduated from high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Girl, he was like seventeen! They in high school! Ain’t got no business with us.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the high school paper, Adina had covered a student council scandal in which the student body president had sold test answers in order to buy himself a new SUV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some 85 percent of the blacks who lived in Ector County and attended high school went there, and so did 44 percent of the county’s Hispanics. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can go to high school at night." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high school freshman puts on a headset with a microphone and clicks on computer software that will link him through the Internet to his tutor, Namitha, many time zones away. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I suppose it resembles Killdeer, Mississippi, where Father grew up, and played the position of quarterback in high school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he was sixteen, Velutha had finished high school and was an accomplished carpenter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop. You are not allowed to get any closer to the high school.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kimberly giggled and for a moment it felt as though they were high school girlfriends gossiping about boys. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When our bus pulled into the high school parking lot, we were greeted by some rabid elementary school kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Probably smoking cigarettes with some boy in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly across from the high school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“After track practice, senior year of high school. Full-on naked battle, in the showers, three against one.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Said one former classmate of him with dreamy reverence as he remembered Joe Bob’s place and time in high school in the early seventies, “You couldn’t touch ’im.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both girls are finishing high school, and most of the family is away at a Nicaraguan hotel celebrating their graduation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I knew he was wrong, of course, that all of it mattered, that we were actively swimming in the sewage that was high school and it wouldn’t do us any good to pretend otherwise. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

McCandless's postcards, notes, and journals ... read like the work of an above average, somewhat histrionic high school kid—or am I missing something? Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first went into Alex, I was drawn by the electricity and the excitement of it, but more important, I was accepted there, more so than I’d been in high school or anywhere else. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Again, the Jewish boys in high school were troubling because I could find no point of connection between them and the Jewish pawnbrokers and landlords and grocery-store owners in Harlem. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I knew Alex was on the baseball team last year, so I headed for the fields behind the high school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Only second! I had you down for high school at least.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remember when Wendell, shortly before his high school graduation, grew a little beard on the bottom of his chin— just a few hairs that formed a goatee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone knows what their plans are down to the location of their future college at this point in their high school careers. And some people don’t go to college right away.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In Germany, no child finishes high school without learning about the Holocaust. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“What do you want to do after high school?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As a high school history teacher, it had been her personal mission to cart Dad and me around to every major historical site in the area. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Once they got to high school, we gave the girls curfews—first 11:00 and eventually midnight—and enforced them, according to Malia and Sasha, with more vigor than many of their friends’ parents did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so what do you call it in high school?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Oh, goodness no. I just know that starting high school can be a difficult transition for any young girl. I can only imagine how much harder it is under your circumstances." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As a result, its students were dispersed across the railroad tracks to the remaining two high schools in town, Permian and Odessa High. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Girl Scouts was much like a sorority, of the kind I would be excluded from in high school and later on in college. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whenever he could, he did experiments, just as he had when he was in high school. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The value of high school English was not entrenched. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keller said I remind him a little bit of the high school version of Annie. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The south wing, which was where the high school was. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was about to be a junior at the black high school, where he made all A’s and played halfback on the football team. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No girl at my high school looked anything like her. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“As a kid,” says Trey, “Mom imagined the token was her dreams. Graduating high school, then college. Becoming a lawyer.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The three-story brick structure had a white statue in the bell tower and looked like a suburban Catholic high school. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He graduated from his public high school in New York at a time when New York City public schools were the envy of the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I thought that I would go to high school with him, see him get his first job, and grow old with him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hosie was still not through high school, even though he was twenty-one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Through a friend from high school, he was lucky enough to get to know some people in the music business. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They both asked about his high school exploits back in Houston. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high school seniors would wait in empty classrooms to make their dramatic entrance. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had not been our teacher when we were in the eighth grade, we had been allowed every day to join the high school for music since the chorus could not do without Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Darryl’s case, he had written a paper on the novel Deliverance and social Darwinism, the kind of thing a high school boy would grasp on to. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Stuttering, Garcia managed to make his plea: he had completed high school in San Lucas and wanted a recommendation to the police academy and a government subsidy to pay for his studies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a time when nine out of ten students never even graduated from high school, she was aiming at college. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to admit I was only seventeen, and that I should be in high school, finishing my junior year. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He steadily moved through his coursework, earning decent grades for the first time in his high school career. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Confidence is a funny thing in high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This year both Justin and Satan go to high school together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And just a few hours before, Sam and Patrick and everyone I love and know had their last day of high school ever. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The school’s principal loved it, and the elementary and high school art teachers and principals loved it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One of the greatest things about high school is that you can drive. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, he did manage to maneuver us out of the high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I could enroll as Claudette Austin and finish high school in Birmingham. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But Pembroke knew exactly whom to call: those high school kids from Lakeside who had been running up thousands of hours of computer time on the ISI mainframe. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I worry that high school will be the best part of his life. I don’t want that to be the case,” Volpe says. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d miss our little powwows in the music wing, but I would also be relieved to have our relationship out from under the microscope of high school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I feel like I only have one alternative—dropping out of high school and getting a full-time job to help my parents with all their payments until they come back home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the principal of Marian’s high school, Dr. Tucy Tangdon Wilson, had been following the young singer’s progress with great interest. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“I was driving by CSA, the fine arts high school, this afternoon and that’s when Grandma swooped in to say what an absolutely perfect fit it would be for you two.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dad had been her high school sweetheart, her husband, and the father of her two boys, and so for her, that’s what came first. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t stop the old man and the boy from joining the ten thousand who thronged to the stadium on the boulevard to see the traditional high school football game. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think if we kept a calendar of who gets called gay in high school, there would be a new person on every single day of the 180-day school year. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As a high school fencer, my little sister was already better than I had ever been. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before he started sixth grade Nick was Nick again, and all through junior high and high school and college, he proved it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty thousand jump shots ago he had ended his career as an Atlanta high school junior. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the backseat of a car, the way some of her friends had; definitely not in the stairwell of the high school, as rumor had it Kendra Solomon had. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking that maybe in the fall you could keep on working nights and go to high school in the daytime. I know it’ll be hard but it could be done somehow.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I finished high school, if I could. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the clinic, Dr. Han was greeted immediately by Nurse Pak, a recent graduate of a nursing high school, who was training with Head Nurse Cha. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

You mean to tell me that it’s 2011 and this guy gets paid to have remedial talks with high school students about how they shouldn’t hate other people? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Okay, I know in high school I’m supposed to meet all kinds of different people, but this isn’t exactly what I had in mind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Carter Cowboys had the best high school linebacker in the country and maybe the best defensive back, along with ten other players who were sure to be recruited by major colleges. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Washington’s big into theater—she always directs the musicals up at the high school—and loves it when kids turn their presentations into performances. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his green woolen sweater, on which was stamped the letter of his high school, and his shirt was open at the throat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You have a course in that in your high school?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was only a year out of high school, after all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially now, when we’re all in a room eating. It reminds me of high school.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Earning a high school diploma in East Africa marks a man as smart and successful. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Josh graduated from Hampshire College, he and his girlfriend, Safron, joined us in Cambridge, England, where the Courters had arranged to exchange homes with a British family the summer before I started high school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They have their heads in the right places, the books, a rarity for high school students these days. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I finished high school, but I hadn’t gone to the graduation exercises. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel more isolated, because now I was also left out of the events at my old high school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished high school before you were born,” my mother retorted. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We came last year to wave good-bye to Uncle Darnell as he stood along with the other soldiers, most of them probably like him—fresh out of high school. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In high school I flirted with the idea that I might be a philosophical genius. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t gotten into Executive Pre-Professional, but that was okay because she was going to high school in Canada. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

You used to pass by it as a South Side kid riding the bus to high school, peering mutely out the window at the people who strode like titans to their jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

These teams pulled in big rowdy crowds as well as college scouts, but my parents were adamant that Craig not sacrifice his intellectual development for the short-lived glory of being a high school phenom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was gaining back some of the muscle he’d lost after high school, but he’d lost the war with his hairline. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Booker T. Washington High, whose sports teams were known as the Yellow Jackets, was one of Montgomery’s two public high schools for black students, the other being George Washington Carver High. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

When I’d stood under the flag and I’d looked up at Paul, who promised to take care of me, he had only recently graduated high school. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had lunch before class in the high school quad and noticed that, like everywhere else, it was really separated by race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The voice belongs to Lou Johnson, the starting running back on the high school varsity team. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Do you think that high school should be extended another year? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The value of high school football was deeply entrenched. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be the opposite of the guidance counselor I’d had in high school, who’d blithely told me I wasn’t Princeton material. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There's the garden where we had a party when I graduated from high school. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said earlier, it’s fall now and high school has started. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He would never be a chemical engineer, and he would not be able to marry his high school sweetheart, who had followed him to Seattle so they could begin to build a life together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gary Edwards, a high school senior, suddenly found himself as hounded by the media as Ollie North. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk a few steps and see high school graduation, Stuart proud in a military school uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They take up most of the space between this main building and the steel bleachers of the high school football stadium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia looked a lot more hurt than someone who didn’t really want to be with a “high school boy,” Dimple thought. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Brandon, come over here,” he called, and a kid who looked like he could be a high school junior or senior came running over. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock the sun had swung down over the west goalposts of the high school football field. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Terryl’s high school guidance counselor didn’t consider college an option, urging the young woman to go to a trade school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was my old high school trick to get some privacy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A high school student might be left out if you spoke about “monetary policy,” and a schoolchild might not even follow a conversation about “the economy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The high school signed on next—anything the little kids could do, they could do better. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They assume I am one of them, which feels like the very summit of my high school career. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“You’re almost in high school; you still think that a little wasabi will kill you?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I think it’s fine, and when I was in high school I didn’t even have two friends as close and loyal as Dill and Travis. I can see it on those guys’ faces. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t any good at trig in high school,” Mother moaned, slamming the book shut. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In high school physical education classes, I withdrew, in the regular company of five or six classmates, to a distant corner of a football field where we smoked and talked. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I drop out of high school, I could be a mime. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was shy in high school, but then he started playing drums and freshman year of college joined a punk band, and boom, girlfriends. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princeton is one of thousands of U.S. high school students turning to tutors in India. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Wes’s best friend, Woody, spent many of his years after high school going in and out of prison. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Every year we’ve been in high school, the day before Thanksgiving break, senior humanities students dress like Greek philosophers and argue throughout the halls all day. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“From kindergarten. At Boulevard, back when it was still K to eight. And then the high school, of course.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy had graduated from the high school of Selma University in 1920. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the fire the students weren't allowed to go to the all-white high school. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That hope lasted until suppertime, when my father announced that the town had decided to build a new junior high school, and that Hoodhood and Associates had been invited to bid to become the architect. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She reviewed the production of Grease at the Unitarian Church and Guys and Dolls at the high school: “Rollicking,” she wrote of one; “Sit Down; They’re Rocking the Boat!” she wrote of the other. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most high school and college students today have no recollection of the political and media frenzy surrounding the drug war in the early years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Socializing was the first thing cut—just like it had been in high school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When Trey started working here back in high school, Sal became the Italian aunt we never had. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Little by little, support for the town’s original high school ebbed away, the fanaticism of the forties and fifties being replaced by bitterness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2010, high school students in Shanghai, China’s largest city, finished first in an international standardized test of math, science, and reading proficiency given to students in sixty-five nations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

So that lady told me again how Jackie was practically a grownup and would be graduating from high school in a couple of months. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He turns eighteen tomorrow, and he officially became a high school graduate yesterday. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty disturbing to see war machines traverse the neighborhood you grew up in—and if that’s not troubling enough, the truck turns left, directly into the high school parking lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I'm not positive that the word "anything" included an acting career, but by high school, I was convinced that being in movies was my destiny. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A mosque opened up on Indian Creek Drive, just across the street from the elementary and high schools, and began to draw hundreds of worshipers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Part of it was practical: without a phone or even the internet, there weren’t many options outside a dusty zipper case of CDs his mom had from high school. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like their middle school, the high school wouldn’t open until tomorrow. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it was your high school graduation party.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was asked about my high school experience, and which of my grade school teachers had prepared me for my success. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s an old picture of me as a high school sophomore, the last year I spent in school before I was expelled. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would abide by his son’s decision if Ivory chose not to play football anymore after high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In January of their senior year in high school, Dallas, six foot two and 205 pounds, threw the ball in someone’s face during basketball practice, hitting his teammate in the head. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Take that, Mr. Doom and Gloom therapist! she wrote on her blog in a pair of posts celebrating Sasha’s high school graduation. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most schools teach Algebra Two in high school. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We almost went back for my dad’s high school reunion, which my dad somehow got into his head that he didn’t want to miss. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I tell him that my mother and Rhiannon’s mother were best friends in high school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They picnicked at Burchillville and Sylvan Grove, listened while the high school band played sluggish Sousa marches, and sprawled under trees drinking port wine. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At a modest high school in the Tidewater city of Portsmouth, not far from John Casteen’s boyhood home, a guidance-office wall filled with college pennants does not include one from rarefied Virginia. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Holly is standing to the side, talking to the high school band teacher. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Two years ago I got into one of the best high schools in Manhattan: Executive Pre-Professional High School. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help but run into one once in a while—but they didn’t often show up in a high school. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Just the high school always has kids selling stuff for fund-raising. I’m happy to just write a check, I told them, but you know, people like their stuff.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The woman called Floramundi hugged a really good-looking high school girl who was holding a rubber Minnie Mouse mask. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Picket lines of black high school and college students marched in front of downtown movie theaters for several years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not the people, but going to high school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My children weren’t old enough to ride the school bus yet, but I knew that next year, if Leigh attended the public junior high school, she would be on one of those buses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think about everything I learned about writing essays in high school, which are kind of like speeches. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cuthrell recalls being fourteen years old, a high school sophomore, and in the grip of turmoil and unhappiness in her home life when she first encountered Volpe. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I comforted myself with the idea that any high school senior who still takes the bus home is a pathetic loser. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn't need a mug until I started drinking tea or coffee, and that wouldn't be until high school or college. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He plays Pop Warner football and Miri says he’s going to be the quarterback of the high school team next year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Claudette left her house on the first day of high school determined to put her mind on her studies. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to the voter drive at the Negro high school.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I remember, when I was in high school, the counselor was there to help kids out who had academic problems, or problems at home. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few had an elementary-school education, and none had made it through high school. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dropped my backpack on the floor because I knew it’d startle her, and even though there were only the next fifty-some summer days between me and high school, I wasn’t above these immaturities. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is true that in high school I read Augustine’s Confessions, but that extraordinary autobiography did not prompt my imitation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In New York, five high school cheerleaders died in a head-on wreck with a tractor trailer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Fighting among students proved even worse in the community high school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in my gymnastics career, I was facing an agonizing decision—high school with my friends, or homeschool at the gym? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He poked his head into the hallway and saw a group of black high school students standing a little way down the corridor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten hours, they will watch performances by two other high school drama troupes, have dinner, sit through a two-hour musical, and attend a dance. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He encouraged your mother to become a chef when they were still in high school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After completing grade school, Evelyn was sent to Johannesburg to attend high school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was told that she couldn’t matriculate lacking a high school education. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama, no matter what you say, I won’t go to high school.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he said, his high school guidance counselors had “thrown in the towel” on him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sure, living in a welfare motel for my senior year in high school was unusual, but it was not extraordinary. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Charles tried to help, but he was starting his senior year of high school and had his own schoolwork. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pagers were strictly forbidden at the high school, which meant that all the cool kids now had them.“Meet me at the pay phone when you’re done, okay?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I came to New York after high school, I worked in my Aunt Mary’s leather factory and stayed with Buheh, who had moved to the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you know, Amir jan, that she earned nothing but A’s in high school?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What he said. Not much high school cachet to be had in being a female who has, you know, vocal opinions about anything.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I wondered if teachers were people who, for whatever reason, couldn’t reach the escape velocity of high school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My only training is a one-term course in high school, “Health and Hygiene.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had to study many subjects and get passing grades to get to the equivalent of high school. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar who was on the football team before he graduated from high school grabs Charlie’s shirt and tears off two buttons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of doing the normal things a high school girl did, she had had to remain that thirteen-year-old girl on the witness stand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even though there weren’t many Muslims in my high school, we had a diverse Muslim community in New Jersey that formed such a large part of my childhood and teen years. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, before the school board met to decide on its new architect, Kowalski and Associates withdrew its bid for the new junior high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was the eighteen-year-old moron starting all over again at a new high school. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One time my audience is a convention of university administrators; another time high school teachers of English; another time a women’s alumnae group. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Annette was absent, so I was the only one in our van on the way to the high school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only college and high school students were allowed to be Red Guards, but our school district had finally granted our school permission to establish the Red Successors. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirrie’s in the last year of high school, though not our high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not only does Ms. Washington direct the shows up at the high school, but she also stars in most of the productions at the Playhouse. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

After more than a year the great day had finally arrived: my first day of junior high school! Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto gave up eating baloney sandwiches when he got a part-time job working at noon at Velva’s Freeze, a hamburger and ice cream store located on Broadway, a few blocks from the high school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jasper was Dad’s best friend from high school and his business partner. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Keep telling yourself that, and maybe it will come true. But if it ever gets over to the high school, you’d better pray that no one knows I'm your sister.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Except for Cinnamon’s blue and yellow plywood apartment in one corner, it might have belonged to any high school girl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Harmon wants us to look at him as a high school student and as a filmmaker. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sixteen when I started in his class, a week short of eighteen when I graduated from high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Volpe does not like to typecast his actors, though in high school it is sometimes unavoidable. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There’s another roadblock up ahead, and soldiers directing people down another suburban funnel that leads either back to the high school, or to an “overflow facility” that will be the last place to see water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I asked the Mexican man to turn the car around, again in my exquisite high school Spanish, and it took about fifteen minutes to make myself understood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I ran a high school, I would include stuff like this in the first-day indoctrination. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What everybody does. Went to school, high school, college, worked in the summers.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The middle school and the high school buildings were too new, and Poppyfield Hall had been carved up into studio and theater spaces. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision by enrolling at an all-white high school in Arkansas, enduring many months of cruelty and abuse in the name of a higher principle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Claudia had a longtime crush on a guy named Connor, pining for him through most of high school and at the start of college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

This was my best blue suit, but because I had owned it since high school, it was no longer much of a fit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This was what high school was supposed to feel like. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't have the patience to slow down and see that I had plenty of material to write about in high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He started talking about his high school football career and, of course, his regrets about college. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, by “going out” I don’t mean like high school stuff, which would be kind of gross barf disgusting. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Couldn’t it just be normal teenage stunts that we all do in high school? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Connellsville, students from some of the other high schools wear sweatpants and sweatshirts to the workshops and performances—or even pajama bottoms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unwanted, miscellaneous things are in boxes already: essays written in high school, under the name Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tony had stayed in school through high school, although he missed so many days working in the junkyard that he wasn’t able to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But there was hardly any reading aloud anymore, less and less as we got into high school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t move away or tense up, because even though I don’t know him like that, Warren feels like all the other guys from my high school or around the way. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When I was a student at the school, my coeditor of the high school newspaper got his girlfriend pregnant. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of the money raised by the benefit concert made it possible for Marian to begin high school at long last. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In 1896 he gave up his German citizenship to avoid military conscription and entered the Zurich Polytechnic Institute on a four-year course designed to churn out high school science teachers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

After high school, he’d caught an ear infection that had almost kept him out of the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to Columbia University as soon as I finish high school.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My high school offered a creative writing course, but in order to get in you had to have straight A's in eleventh-grade English. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Golly Brown Giant is teaching a handful of mostly boys how to knit—if this high school basketball superstar can knit, knitting is the coolest thing ever, right? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it feels like she belongs in high school more than I do. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was considered “the most expensive, most beautiful, and largest high school in the nation” and an excellent educational facility and academically graduated a high percentage of students who went on to top universities. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In his senior year in high school, by sheer force of will, he lettered in—of all things—basketball. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Richard En- slow, who taught wood shop at the high school, resigned his position and joined the navy. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They go from high school to high school; they are well known for this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I own enough of this slop already to embalm all of the girls in my high school graduating class, who must need it by now as much as I do. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Welch students came from families with fathers who were doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, and bankers, and their high school was the newest, best-equipped school in the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

James Halliday had taken guitar lessons for a few years in high school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

During a long strike by the schoolteachers when I was a high school senior, I found a job in one of the area’s small steel plants. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it’s funny to be so serious when I’m not even out of high school?” she asked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy says she’s a teacher in a high school across town. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She could hold her own even against a group of stupid high school boys. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I graduated from this high school,” she said, “and all I ever heard was football, football, football. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if science was another way to get in this trophy case?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His three children all went far beyond his second-grade education, finishing high school or attending college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As he approached high school, Craig had been sought after by some of Chicago’s top public school coaches looking to fill gaps in their rosters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I started making zines earlier this year when I discovered Dad’s collection of punk music zines from his high school days. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I cared less about what everyone else at our high school thought of me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The high school produced a second yearbook, Valediction 1945, summing up its years in camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years I have had occasion to lecture in ghetto high schools. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's in Ridgeford. Near a top high school for you girls." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We got in the car and rushed to Santa Maria County Hospital, which was a few blocks from the high school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lynn wanted to go to summer school so one day she could graduate high school early. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tommy was at Holy Ghost Prep, a private Catholic high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Seventy-six percent of high school students who began high school in Maryland completed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I got into this high school, and I had every reason to be the happiest guy in the world,” I continued. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until someone realized that “tracking” is wrong that the stereotyped “at risk” urban high school kids were given their chance. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the popular level, Haynes’s scenario made so much intuitive sense that it rapidly leapt from the pages of Science to high school history textbooks, mine among them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I saw Alex at the high school football game on Friday when I went with June. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had grown up in West Texas, and it was obvious to her that high school football could galvanize a community and help keep it together. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't even known about her until he was in high school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I remember a lot of students who worked hard at Donoghue, but for whom their freshman year of high school was a very bad year. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a high school paper, not the Boston Globe. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Hell, you’ve never even dated high school girls. But we don’t have to let ’em know that. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My high school teacher, Miss Simpson, would approve of the lessons this new life is teaching me, even if very few of them are from a book. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t get why she’s not in a private high school. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She was like this at the end of high school, and then things got better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have visited us twice and even flew down for my high school graduation, where they became reacquainted with Luke. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Cordelia will be going to your high school. Cordelia’s mother wonders whether you girls would like to walk to school together.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They attached themselves to a new crowd destined for high school glory. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Morrie is older than most of the teachers, and I am younger than most of the students, having left high school a year early. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do what I’d do in high school: I ask for the details. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there was Brad, the quarterback of the high school football team. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Often, now that she was in high school too, they would meet each other on the way home and walk together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I always figured that there would be more drama to a high school cafeteria. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bella had grown up in the Bronx and attended a tough high school near where I lived; his brother was a cop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, man, I’m just in high school,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Teaching art at the high school was just volunteer for him. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’d start to look like the girls in the magazines, be forced to wear dresses and high heels and makeup—go to high school. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The pay is $20 an hour, good money for a Levittown kid right out of high school, and it helps pay his tuition at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some seem old enough for middle school, high school. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Meaning my brother, who married his high school sweetheart and had three perfect kids. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

In high school geometry, you are taught that two points determine a line. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because it was the high school, it sat at the highest point in town, on top of the hill that rose up like a tent’s peak. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m waiting for the trip down memory lane, preparing myself to be regaled with tales of Dr. Katz’s high school years. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Considering the state of things, I didn’t know if I’d even get back to high school. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the start of high school, I was a total innocent when it came to substances like pot and acid and ecstasy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

A gifted French-horn player, as a teen he was a member of the American University Symphony but quit, according to Walt, after objecting to rules imposed by a high school band leader. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1979, her senior year of high school, Mia applied to the New York School of Fine Arts with a series of photographs she’d taken of abandoned buildings around town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom says when she had him in high school, he already looked ancient. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He enlisted five Haitians who were his age—he required that each had at least one year of junior high school—to go from hut to hut in Cange and two neighboring villages. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Of all the legends of Odessa, that of high school football was the most enduring. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad had been a star player on his high school team, and Benji’s mom had gone to Syracuse University on a basketball scholarship. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were people I'd known in high school, and it disappointed me to see how little we now had in common. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It still is—in high school, she made state. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Finally somebody asked what the problem was, and Lemon looked down at his hands and said that back in high school he’d had a couple of bad experiences with dentists. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not any more ridiculous than going to our high school,” said my sister. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“No one’s ever come up with that concept for a junior high school before,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They call him a D.P., which means displaced person, an old insult I remember from high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the school year we had to choose which high school we wanted to attend. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he was just a few years ahead of me back in high school. Knows a lot of the same people.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even the high school kids in our neighborhood know better than to mess with Bennie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When we entered high school, my father would make us take the same tests he prepared for his high school students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got really famous. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In high school, Charles was still not a good student. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen, in my last year of high school, and for the first time in my life I was starting to have opinions of my own. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian was just a player, a senior in high school, but that didn’t seem to matter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. It’s tough to tell what would make you happy. I thought I’d be happier in a really tough high school, and I ended up here. Wait, where do you go to school?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“If this is happening in middle school, I shudder to think what you guys are going to get up to in high school.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In high school, she struggled in the adolescent competition for boyfriends in a world of football games and proms, a world where her looks were plainly uncommon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What chance did a boy without a high school education have nowadays? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re well prepared in high school, you shouldn’t have trouble in college.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The way the festival is set up, each school performing a full-length play is to be critiqued afterward by drama directors from other Pennsylvania high schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was the day Ishtar walked across the stage and became the first of Angela Whitiker’s children to get a high school diploma. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Symbols: When my older sister, then in high school, asked my mother if she could do light housework in the afternoons for a rich lady we knew, my mother was frightened by the idea. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first time Charlie got high school detention, it was for smoking. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It met in a classroom at the nearby high school, and it was so popular that although I arrived ten minutes early, a new student had already taken my place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A guy from the high school jazz band,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Our high school contestant will be Helen Spencer, who wrote a clever story called ‘Bucky and the Beaver.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Linton became good, earning first chair in a jazz ensemble in junior high school and then high school, and winning scholarship opportunities to play music in college. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My dad was on his high school tennis team. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“And once we’re in high school, we can take the trolley by ourselves and meet Phyllis on the way. And then we can go to college together, the three of us.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My original plan was to play a sport each season for all four years of high school, but the softball team was tough. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

No matter how sedulously Ben and Mary Anne prepared for the nightmare, nothing could ameliorate their discomfort at entering a new high school for their annual pilgrimage among strangers. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got distributed in high schools, posted on college bulletin boards. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The school board came up with the idea of using the high school teachers as substitutes at the schools for the younger students,” explained Mother. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot remember high school years now with the parade of typical images: bright drive-ins or gliding blue shadows of a Junior Prom. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Still in high school back in Arizona. I’ll be in eleventh grade next month.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

That’s one of the things I hate most about a small high school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My reality was that it was more and more difficult for my parents to clothe and feed me in high school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One day, last year—at a different high school—I was sitting in math class and this guy I barely knew wouldn’t stop staring at me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

After finishing high school, Marian was free to tour more widely than before. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he’ll come with me, or if our built-in ending is high school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was obvious why I grew to love Samira once we went to high school together, but she also had reason to take a liking to me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Married his high school sweetheart, became a salesman like his father. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since Central was a white high school, the Board turned down the request and recommended the use of the Armstrong High auditorium instead. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

If my father was sounding more arrogant than usual, it’s because he had brought home a scale model of his design for the new junior high school, and he figured it was a winner. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“John dragged me to some high school party. Our dad’s out of town, and John’s supposed to be watching me. He’s gonna get so in trouble when I tell on him.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I still have two more years of high school, and I'm planning to exit to a standing ovation. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A high school dropout, he used to work for a landscaping company; it went out of business, and he had to come to the offices to request a permit to hunt for another job. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jim Johnson had planned to attend Hampton Institute but was drafted right after graduating from high school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had rejected most of the societal norms of high school, but we still bought into the iconic powers of formal dances. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Back at the house, we still had about an hour and a half to kill before I was supposed to be at the high school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've got two kids in a high school that has more guns than books, so I know all about complaining to officials and such about things that need changing. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was copying the superior, bored expressions of the high school girls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I figured that if I laid off gradually, by the time I entered high school in the fall, I could start fresh, no longer be known as “the cellist.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our high school, which had about twenty students at full strength, was down now to fifteen since two had graduated the previous spring and three had gone off to war. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice was about to sail into eighth grade, which put her in shooting distance of high school. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted the best of both worlds—the thrill and the drama of high school with all my friends and a top-tier gymnastics career. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, the city’s only public high school taught laboratory employees everything from sewing to dynamic model design, bookkeeping to machine shop theory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They pretended they didn’t hear her, and walked into the high school and down the hall to the chemistry room. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just yesterday he drove one of a dozen tanker trucks delivering the contents of a high school swimming pool to Camp Pendleton Marine Base. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The role of a coach was to win, because this was high school football and this was Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the same guy who delighted in sticking freshmen’s heads in toilet bowls in high school, and thought flicking boogers on me was hilarious. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I was stoned through most of high school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“My girl Shandra here is moving up to the high school. I was thinking of maybe trying out a boy in the goal.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Ms. G., I don’t know a single female who’s graduated from high school, let alone gone to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you,” Presto said, “the older I get, the younger college kids look. If you asked me, I’d say you were still in high school. What year you in?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The following week, I gave talks at the gallery for high school students and refugee kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We rolled our eyes at every high school convention that society tried to shove down our throats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I had no father at graduations, milestones, my wedding. “I lost out on a whole relationship in high school, middle school, college, without a father.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had accomplished his mission of completing high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Barack’s high school buddy Bobby, who was a commercial fisherman, took us out on his boat one day for some snorkeling and an aimless cruise. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“When we need to, we use the high school’s gymnasium.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dwaine pegged the start of his son’s problems to 1982, when the junior high school he went to got desegregated as a result of the fight that had taken place in the courts. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in eighth grade and I had gotten into high school and I was going to a party? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the high school after school today. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The high school girls in the seats hoot and giggle. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When John finished high school that same year, he joined the Army Air Corps. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Will’s buddy Mike stood with some guys who looked too old to be high school students. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It was the minorities who had lost their neighborhood high school, Ector High, not the whites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bought it for him for high school graduation.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yes, my high school world and my other world have collided a couple of times recently, but Bre exists on a different plane from everyone else. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“She goes to my high school. She was fine last week.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

We also put a call out to local high schools for students who want to submit work. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Some students were arrested while others left school and united as one in a nearby park with all of the other high schools. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chas was a friendless jerk who navigated the seas of high school with his rudder fixed on a steady course of intimidation and cruelty. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I will not speak for high school, having neither firsthand experience nor an older sibling to shed wisdom on the subject. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gina lives only a mile from your high school, and sometimes she walks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“A lot of us had an idea who Mr. Volpe was even before we got into high school,” she said. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It took me a few minutes to realize that public high schools didn’t have men in suits watching their parking lots. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Aside from Ma and me, there were only a few other people at the shower: four women from the junior high school where we taught and Mrs. Ruiz. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When Grace went to Hughes, she had Ms. Washington for ELA, too, and in high school, Grace was the stage manager of all the shows Ms. Washington directed. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The high school is closing, too, he reports. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In his own high school years, Volpe had been protected by his football-playing friends, his fellow altar boys from Maternity Blessed Virgin Mary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to enroll in high school in September,” I said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s in the United States, high school girls were given special classes in sewing, cooking, and hygiene, while boys learned woodworking and how to use tools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In high school, the attention of girls was not an affliction I suffered from. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My father gave it to me when I graduated from high school.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two people, actually. One friend from high school and one from college.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe that anyone has ever come up with this blended concept for a junior high school before,” said Mr. Kowalski. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The high school has one principal mark of distinction: Volpe’s astoundingly successful drama program. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Boxing is a dying sport. People aren't much interested anymore. They want easy things like television, bowling, car rides. Get yourself a good job. Finish high school. Go at night if you have to." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack has an older brother in high school, and they look alike except that John’s taller, stockier, and more jocklike. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You only graduate from high school once,” Mom said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You told me about your friend in high school, who wanted to grow his hair long, but couldn’t because of his parents.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Go sledding on the big hill behind the high school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wear a uniform with my name stitched on the pocket, as in high school gym class. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe attended every one of his son’s high school baseball games. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ishmael Chambers put down the receiver and sat with his forehead held in his palm, remembering Carl Heine from high school. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of eleven the parade stepped off with the high-school bands of the three nearest towns with high schools. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or when he was a sophomore in high school and one of his friends came out as gay, and he couldn’t imagine ever doing anything like that. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My mom’s a high school drama teacher and my dad’s an actor. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“You just don’t want your brand-new fancy high school friends to know your brother’s a freak!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He plays a high school chorus banging out to “My Shot,” and I wish I went to the kind of school that had talent shows so I could see something like this in person. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She says she was caught up in the swirl of high school life, “gossipy” and unfocused. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning, they went to the high school; Blaine wanted to be one of the first to vote. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d already gotten me registered for high school and was going to help me get a car. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They rode the bus all over town, stopping in at high schools where they didn’t even go to school, just to visit whoever might be hanging around the halls. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The last time she asked I told her maybe she shouldn’t base her entire future on her current high school boyfriend. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both had started playing chess seriously at the age of eight and had dropped out of high school to be able to play chess full-time. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could possibly suck worse than being a junior in high school, alone at the top of your class, and fourteen years old all at the same time. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Jackson turns—he’s got one clear shot, but he has never made a three-pointer in his high school career! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why did high school with my friends have to be one of them? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They’ll blame computer games and the Net. Life for geeks like me who are still in high school will be hell. ... It probably already is.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from high school, she enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

About 70 percent of people with criminal records did not complete high school, and according to at least one study, about half are functionally illiterate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I met with a counselor at Los Angeles City College, who asked me for my high school diploma. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His name was John Connolly, and he was a high school teacher from upstate New York. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

White high school students typically buy drugs from white classmates, friends, or older relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Teachers liked to claim that Maybeck didn’t have cliques like other high schools, and it was true that the place was a refuge for kids like Healy who had been bullied in middle school. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That first week, the second graders made red-and-green construction paper chains that they hung the length of the elementary and junior high school halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On November 22, 1963, a few days before Thanksgiving, my high school math teacher, a short man named Mr. Ralph Joseph, walked into my classroom with his head lowered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx and Shady hauled the first barrel over to the high school. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t think a high school girl like me is visible enough, exists enough for a soldier with a rifle, a pistol, a club, a helmet, and high boots to notice. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of American universities, colleges, and high schools shut down for the week as students staged impassioned protests. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I stayed busy living my life, surviving high school, surviving my early twenties, becoming a comedian. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She definitely considered it an honor for one of her lovies to get to go to high school with Theodore, and she carefully considered who was most deserving. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Strangely enough, my religious friends were the ones who were either doing all the drugs or having all the sex in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the father of three children who are now all the way through high school—thirty-nine years of combined K-12 schooling—I’ve gotten to know lots of teachers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pat yourself on the back because you'll get instant access to six years of high school and then four at the top universities in the Republic: Drake, Stanford, and Brenan. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Maggie said it’s because the high school one is always so awesome. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was only when I was in high school and began to build my rockets that I finally understood why. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We start with the back trails, which eventually spits us back out to the main road near Garrett’s school—my high school being just across the street. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even if the high schools did open, Liz and I still wouldn’t be at the same school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By high school, Chantal had gotten a scholarship to some fancy prep school, University Liggett, Donna was going out with Dray, and I was...well, let’s just say I was the brawn. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I want to say, You didn’t even finish high school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

One social studies paper that I wrote during my first year in high school I remember particularly well. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never done detention before, but then again I’d never spent time in an American high school. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I went through what you did in high school.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

You’re probably wondering how one little female high school teacher brought such drastic changes into my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He knew she had attended her high school reunion three years prior, and the dedication of the Enoch Washington Tennis Courts in Vickers Park a year ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson’s wife was active in the Chicago teachers’ union, and each elementary, junior high, and high school in the metropolitan area received a copy of the press release about the hearing and the charges. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing an old blue down jacket that Gogol had worn back in high school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would see them nuzzling in the yard like a pair of junior high school lovers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about how much this means to this guy, about how much more important it is than going to any high school or getting with any girl or being friends with anybody. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She posed the question not long after Terryl arrived at Cypress, a few months after high school graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But here in Memorial Stadium in Midland, where a nearsellout crowd had gathered to watch a high school football game, none of that seemed to matter. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One black girl, a high school cheerleader, told me that the white captain of the squad was always talking down to her, as if she were a homeless person, when her parents were both doctors. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Classes at Graham High started fifty-five minutes earlier than the classes at Trace; the high school kids were off the streets long before the middle school buses finished their routes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as they were concerned, going to high school meant I’d no longer be pursuing an elite career—in my dad’s words, I’d be giving up “all this gymnastics business”—but I didn’t agree. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kowalski and my father were sitting at two of the high school desks—which made the whole thing seem a little weirder than it needed to be. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Felicia told him how she’d left high school and answered an ad for international escorts in the newspaper. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego taught me about that after my first real fight in junior high school. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you missed a day of high school yet?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught history and English at the colored high school, but what she really loved was music. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would finish high school with more than one year of college work out of the way. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would my public high school allow me to miss so many days of school? Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I visit them in their homes and travel with them to the high school theater festivals where they feel like stars—an unaccustomed feeling for kids from Truman. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hoodhood has been out at the site of the new junior high school all day, and he isn’t expected back until two thirty.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

My dad introduced Sookie to my mom in high school and the three of them became close. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

You probably don’t know that after I finished high school, I went on to college. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was in high school now, and I had my own job. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“If you knew him, you knew the only thing he really cared about by the end of high school was the Internet,” an old friend agreed. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I hope by the time I’m a senior in high school, I will have mastered that look. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He finished high school at the top of his class at age fifteen and went on to Indiana University in the early days of the Great Depression. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Man, I’m fixing to graduate, fixing to go to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grow out my high school bangs and pin my hair back off my face, hoping to look austere. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Former high school athlete and runaway parent, now Father Anthony, a priest at Saint Therese’s near Boston. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I am in the bell tower of the high school, standing on a ledge about four inches wide. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t you have to finish high school for that?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Will they have anything like this in high school? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You mean the ultimate high school cliché,” I say flatly. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

We in high school could wear olive drab and campaign hats and learn the manual of arms from the physics teacher, but, Jesus Christ! East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moss and Esperanza had been lucky enough to attend the same junior high, but since freshman year, they’d attended different high schools. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One of the most commonly used books in high school geometry classes makes use of more than a hundred axioms to prove a similar number of theorems! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to high school next year and I shouldn’t have to keep doing this. be a musician like Jimmy Leon’s dad or own an oil company like Coby’s? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ve clearly forgotten what high school is like from my side of the desk.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

As I graduated from high school and worked my way through college toward a biology degree, HeLa cells were omnipresent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How many high school libraries are even allowed to stock Theodore Sturgeon, or all of Robert Heinlein? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After poor Edgar Derby, the high school teacher, was shot in Dresden later on, a doctor pronounced him dead and snapped his dogtag in two. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone in Chinatown looks more like me than any of the kids at my high school ever did. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Like I told you already, I’m irresponsible,” she says before going into the details, which by high school standards are utterly prosaic. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It was another kitten every couple months, in high school.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His speech, which defended a jailed socialist, did not please his high school principal, but he graduated near the top of his class. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A major study from 1999, backed by the MacArthur Foundation, tracked outcomes for large cohorts of high school students, divided between children who received extensive arts education and those who did not. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He used to teach high school English, and Mom says he got everyone to love reading. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Cordelia has been to high school for a year already and knows how to do this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I was glad that with high school just around the corner, I was deemed mature enough to know my cousin's biggest secrets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had seen high school plays and plays that Clarion U. had put on, but I had never seen something like that. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to high school with you. Hope Springs High.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I’d played soccer before I was in high school and loved it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now, those of you who remember your high school math will know that this is, in fact, impossible. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Gaines and the other Permian coaches were all too aware of the role that high school football occupied in Odessa, how it had become central to the psyche of thousands who lived there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On game days, the kids from rival high schools razzed each other back and forth. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s a senior at my high school, and he’s going to the University of California, Berkeley, next year to study astrophysics.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Nick had heard his older brother, James, groan and grumble about this rule for years, right up until he graduated from high school two years ago. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small library in a small high school in a small town. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

With such a loving “extended” family, I got back the strength to fight for my dreams: to graduate from high school and go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were only two male teachers in our entire elementary school, and none of us expected to have one until junior high school. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After that Kapugen told her about the wolves he had known on the mainland when he went to high school in Nome. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why’d you get so excited about the idea of me going with him? Because you wanted me to see where I’d be living after high school?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She and her three sisters had attended church three times a week, rarely watched television, and had each enrolled at Christian colleges after high school. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The summer I graduated from high school, my sister Princesse planned to marry. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But I don’t want to look like some high school kid skipping third period—even though that’s totally, 100 percent exactly what I am. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I should be crushed that less than a month into my junior year of high school, my latest girlfriend kicked me to the curb like a pair of too-small shoes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s my high school ID from University Liggett. I don’t have anything with my address on it. Did something happen over there?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We brought hundreds of high school students to our office for supplemental education and discussion about rights and justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But not one who might be in seventh or eighth grade or even high school. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he didn’t really need the world of high school games and dances and crowds. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she and Patrick spent a lot of time here when Bob was still in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Think of all the animals used in teaching science—in high school, vet school, and medical school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I watch the scholarship auditions that morning, it seems to me they are at a level entirely different from that of most of the competitors from the other high schools. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Somehow, it had been the best day of high school I’d ever had. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And all along the sides of the plaza are kids from the high school—I recognize some of them—dressed like it’s the 1950s because that’s when Bye Bye Birdie takes place. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He’d lived mostly in Montana until his mother decided to go to college to become a social worker and sent him to live with his father and stepmother for high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that Evan Parker, and his strict mom, and his nonexistent finances culminated in some of my most pivotal memories from high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

My own graduation had taken place on the high school football field. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Ignatius felt as alone as he had felt on that dark day in high school when in a chemistry laboratory his experiment had exploded, burning his eyebrows off and frightening him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m gonna be near ninety by the time this here baby graduates high school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I had reached my freshman year in high school, I was smoking pot three to five times a day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The best thing about high school is that hardly anybody knows me at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And he has this old saxophone from high school that he keeps all clean and shiny, like he’s going to join a band at any moment. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robert went away to high school and college and then fought for the Union in the Civil War, although his mother didn’t want him to. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The great Anna Faris once said that the secret of surviving high school is to “lay low.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We were at the Santelli Tournament, the largest high school fencing competition in the nation, where all of the state’s teams competed for a chance at the coveted championship title. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Now, she was seventeen and dominating on the high school fencing circuit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached high school, I was no longer the only one of my family who had been sent off to school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just have to get out of high school. We’re like oil and water, school and me. I wish Mom would let me quit.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Antwan turned into a different kind of dude once he started high school this year, and Sneaky’s mom is always fussing with him about who he hangs out with and how he treats Sneaky. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

If she was ever going to make it through high school, she’d probably need a nuclear explosion every night. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“If we choose to put it into a football program, and the graduates from our high schools are at or above the state level of standards, then screw you, leave us alone.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annie Pattridge was an awkward, shy girl in my high school, a kid with gentle eyes who kept to herself and ate her lunches in a corner of the school’s little library. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t finished high school, but she had read lots of books, and she studied everything and everybody all the time. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people were sitting in the same groups with the same people they’d known all through high school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I never went to one single high school party until graduation,” Jesse told me once. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided not to tell my father about the military trucks we saw at our high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Left to his own devices, he did what any high school senior in America would do: he took advantage of it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Dale was an excellent lacrosse player in high school. Excellent.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of articles talk about Darren and his superstar high school career—his college possibilities. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My team and I visited community colleges and some of the big urban high schools around Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Four out of five students from elementary age to high school attend afterschool cram courses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The best I’d ever done was a kiss on a girl’s front porch after a dance, and that was only with Teresa Anello in junior high school, just once. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We'd be moving into the sixth house we'd lived in since we arrived in America, while my high school friends continued to occupy their childhood homes. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“So then, what freedom do you see in the birds and the planes and the table here? Freedom from us? Freedom from high school?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even David, my old high school boyfriend, sometimes dropped in to seek his counsel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“The elementaries have holiday pageants; the high school has Homecoming. Halloween is our thing! How can Mr. Kasigi do this to us?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t find this out until after I started high school, that Dad had actually received death threats for making fun of characters from the Bible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“All through high school. I come after school when it’s not football season, every Saturday and all summer. I bought a car with the money I made last year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They backed out of the driveway slowly, my mother waving at us and laughing as if she was in high school and going on a date. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Luis played soccer, you know. At Tangerine Middle School. At the high school, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope for Owen’s sake that Natasha Lee is, in fact, a student at the high school, whether he has a crush on her or not. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When we got to the high school there were about a thousand parents and kids entering the gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t known she could take care of herself that way, hadn’t known that the strength she’d been building in the classes and in the weight room at the high school would pay off. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“What are these? Visual aids for civics or some other equally stultifying high school subject?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By high school, the nuns were reading her stories and compositions out loud in English class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But the school still had social groupings, just like any other high school—arty kids, stoners, bros. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was finally out of high school, so the “no boys until you graduate” rule from my parents had been lifted. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In Detroit and Chicago, school-age Muslim children attended our two Universities of Islam—through high school in Chicago, and through junior high in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor graduated early from high school, in 2013, at the age of sixteen, and was the valedictorian at InTech Collegiate High School. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mom seemed to think they would be canceling classes at the high school today and sending everyone home early because of the tragedy with Mike Costello. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I began my senior year in high school, I knew I wanted to go to college and be a musician of some kind. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in the fourth grade, I started going upstairs to the junior high school library to check out the Black Stallion series. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as high school was over, Chris declared, he was going to get behind the wheel of his new car and spend the summer driving across the country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is in high school now, taking Mr. Lawson’s English class, going to the dances Gogol never went to himself, already going to parties at which both boys and girls are present. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was August by then, and I was due to enter high school in a couple of weeks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Almost as important as Vicky Tines's boyfriend is to Vicky Tines, who she announces is in high school every single day in homeroom. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Not too long afterward, eighth grade had an assembly in the gym to talk about the upcoming orientation day we were going to have over at the county high school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a quick run to the burbs outside of the old high school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

They followed him into the park and into summer and into high school, just like many other people would eventually follow him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before Penny, she wanted to graduate high school with top honors and go to college to pursue politics and architecture and music history. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Unlike his brothers, who had joined the army after high school, Habib had gone to the university. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The Senate House interior looked like a high school lecture hall. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“And we all think your girls’ high school is a blasphemy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All the girls on Rass Island were half in love with Mr. Rice, one of our two high school teachers. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my junior year of high school, me and three of my close friends began to hold the meetings of what would soon become the infamous Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re sitting at a lab table in an otherwise empty chemistry classroom at the high school during lunch period, as they do every other Wednesday. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker tells me that twelve girls from high schools throughout the city have been selected to participate in Woman to Woman. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In Wilmington, Delaware, at a reception following a concert, she was introduced to a tall young man named Orpheus Fisher, who, like her, was still in high school. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

At the funeral, his brave mother boldly told us that her son accomplished all three of his goals—to get his driver’s license, to graduate from high school, and to go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a while it seemed that with the high schools closed, there’d be no football too. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In junior high school, I became good pals with the truancy officer in the area. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Those parents don’t have to attend high school every day with kids whose parents won’t be at that meeting.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Odessa also became tough and quick-fisted, filled with men who hardly needed a high school diploma, much less a college one, to become roughnecks and tool pushers on an oil rig. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About half of my high school class had entered the college, and I became friendly enough with many of the other non-Hasidic Students. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Poor old Edgar Derby, the high school teacher, got into the conversation now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faizah was only in eighth grade but was already taking private fencing lessons with Coach Mustilli in anticipation of being on the high school team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She talked about high school football with the mailman and took cold fried chicken to Bertha’s knitting club. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The dyslexic school was only for one year, so I didn’t know what would happen when I got to high school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The high school girls were mostly gone or married. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His record mile, run when he was seventeen, was three and a half seconds faster than Cunningham’s fastest high school mile, run when he was twenty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

This year Ellie and Brenda both had boyfriends at the consolidated high school and the problem of what to give them and what to expect from them was cause of endless speculation and fights. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nikki never fully adjusted to the new social and academic environment; she attended three different high schools in four years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It must be hard to stand there unclaimed, as if she’s at a high school dance, being looked over. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered sitting in the counselor’s office my second week in high school. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire lasted all night and when it was over, my mother's high school had burned nearly to the ground. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I finished high school early, actually. So I’ve been a year already.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Guitar, being older and already in high school, had none of the reluctance that his young buddy still struggled with, and was the first one to speak. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like my high school counselor’s desk. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I blink at the fluorescent lights in the room; a faint buzz emanates from them and reminds me of the lights in my high school library. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Three years after Truman’s staging of Rent—and thirty-six years after my own high school graduation—I was asked to give the commencement speech at Truman High. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wayne, a husky guy when I first met him, was even heavier early in high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And a colored man taught mathematics at the junior high school. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

So it had migrated to the high school, too. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Granted, coaching suburban kids in a sport that they enjoyed was a completely different animal than teaching art history in a struggling inner city high school, but the difference between the students was glaring. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So when we got to the high school and I asked Ruthanne how she planned to get in, I wasn’t surprised when she said, “Everybody knows the storage room window doesn’t shut all the way.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

This school had recently been assessed as “one of the country’s most troubled high schools,” but I was willing to give it a try. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Two girls from his high school came by once and Big Ma told them, “Young ladies don’t go calling on boys,” and closed the door. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I want to transfer to a different high school,” he told his mother, finally taking his principal’s advice, and her response was achingly neutral. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For most, it would all end in high school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been a social outcast since his freshman year in high school when he got caught stealing a bag of marshmallows from the supermarket. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Except for having to get up to catch the school bus at six-thirty in the morning, I liked high school right off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, Belky wears a blue gown and mortarboard for her high school graduation. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then I thought that if she went to college that would be four years, four and a half if you thought about her finishing high school, too. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in there the poor old high school teacher, Edgar Derby, was caught with a teapot he had taken from the catacombs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still thought high school students were nice. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

This time last year, I would have spoken up and agreed with them and then written a scathing blog post about high school gossip. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn't want him to be self-involved and distant like the stoner boys I pined for in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not Hilly, but sometimes Elizabeth, the old, sweet Elizabeth back in high school. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At my mother’s suggestion, I wrote the county supervisor who had graded my high school exams, and he was happy to recommend me for a scholarship at the University of Maryland. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still sitting on the floor in a bathroom stall in a public high school, I was still crazy, and my hair still looked like I’d dunked my head in a tank of ketchup. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

When I was a senior in high school, consequendy, I did not hesitate to apply to secular colleges. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her children live in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and her youngest just graduated from high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You hate parties and people and loud music. But literally everyone is going. You can’t honestly miss the last real high school party of our lives.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Wynn, my dad, and my mom were all friends in high school, and he’d been her manager since they were both teenagers. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“I hear college is really hard,” I said, remembering how anxious I felt when Mrs. Taylor, my social studies teacher, told the class how difficult college was compared to high school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Joan took Spanish and German in high school and was adept in both, “Industry!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a New York Times poll, 43 percent of them called it essential to success, while 42 percent of college graduates and 32 percent of high school dropouts did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the rows of stools stood the stars of the show, the members of the 1988 Permian Panther high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was calling from Spain, where he lived with his wife and two children, both in high school. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That is how they got a high school education; had they been born two or three or four years earlier, they might never have gotten a full education. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His mom only worked part-time then, and his dad, who’d taught high school science, was off summers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“First prize goes to—and this is a first for this high school, ladies and gentlemen—Big Creek High School, represented by Homer Hadley Hickam, Jr., for A Study of Amateur Rocketry Techniques!” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nora said that no younger kids go into the Hideout, but what about the high school kids? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Life gets way better after high school, I swear.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Remember your instructions!” the high school girl threatened us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are six self-contained learning communities in our wing of the building—children with various conditions, from preschoolers to kids who ought to be in high school by now. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Since high school, Caleb has had six jobs, none very promising. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In baseball, I have a good arm and a bat, and I can field, but I am not interested in playing it after high school. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Junito dropped out of high school when he was a sophomore and started selling drugs in the neighborhood. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But for now, Sophie was stuck in high school, feeling frustrated and stifled. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had a look of sad bemusement on his face, as if to acknowledge that no job in the world was stranger than that of a high school football coach. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re walking home from the park plotting out what we want our first year of high school to be like. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We went to a contest on the mainland the spring we were thirteen and might have won except that when the judges realized our chief soloist was not yet in high school, we were disqualified. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theo is still in high school, four miles from his parents’ house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What could be more appropriate and compelling for high school actors and audiences? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I interviewed at another high school and was offered a job. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But around her I could be the new and improved Clay Jensen, high school freshman. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Fights had broken out on the buses between the junior high school students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I travel with Volpe and a group of students one night to see another high school perform a musical called The Drowsy Chaperone, a very good show with a really dumb title. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She has hopes for him: graduation from high school, a white-collar job, maybe as an engineer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The students showed dramatic improvements in their test scores in several subjects, and many more of them graduated from high school and applied to college. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then I remember that it’s actually Mama’s from when she was in high school. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No, they won’t either. I don’t want to stay two years more to finish high school.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then later that day, Reggie went over to visit the Parks at their two- story, five-bedroom house just a block from the high school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why, I can pick out Odessa guys on sight,” said a high school student. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since leaving high school years prior, Bernard hadn’t found a steady job. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Since September she had been a performer— unique and outrageous—on the high school stage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Only the high schools are closed. No one is trying to send Negroes to the junior highs.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Determined not to let his frailty and his stature stand in his way, in high school he went out for every sport he could think of, mastering none but playing all of them tenaciously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I offered the date of my real high school graduation. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each year I delivered several of them, choosing a mix of high school and college ceremonies, focusing on the sorts of schools that normally didn’t land high-profile speakers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And,” she continues, “you know, I got a tattoo when I was only sixteen, and I smoked through high school.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eric doesn't look much older than the high school kid who lives next door to us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My best friend in high school was a Jew. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I understand that life after high school is probably something I should be thinking about, but I can’t picture me in college and I don’t know how to plan for something I can’t imagine. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were both in high school at that time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She learned only that he’d been a high school sweetheart who was long gone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He died in his third year in high school and I was one of his pallbearers, and I think I was guilty of the sin of pride at being chosen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several months before Orson graduated from high school, his father died. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This meet was our big good-bye, and also the end of my last summer before high school, and all that had made me prematurely nostalgic. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Hey, do you go to the high school?” she asked, like we were having a normal conversation. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I forget, until I drive by the high school on my way back from the burbs, where a thousand spinning, singing Santas live, that there’s a football game tonight. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was simply another campaign stop, another orchestrated moment; the only difference, as one correspondent wearily put it, was that this particular rally had two high school bands instead of one playing at full throttle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to go on to graduate work, I don’t want to teach high school or be a curator's flunky in a museum. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s different in high school,” I explained to him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If you’re in high school, you can audition,” encouraged Mr. Rochester. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

So we were watching a show about high school kids on a volleyball team, instead of a cartoon about a duck detective. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This moment felt like an entire lifetime—these past months had felt like forever—but high school wasn’t the whole world, was it? A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Joseph Brook has to understand that. He’s in high school. He can’t give her what she needs.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She’d just graduated high school like he had, and had apparently gotten into Stanford. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It had gotten him through the poverty and loneliness of a nomadic life in Montana, the pain of adolescence, the rejection and anger of high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two good things about the high school program. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t about to tell my friends that I loved my team and couldn’t imagine going through high school without them. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One of the best bodies belonged to the oldest American by far, a high school teacher from Indianapolis. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Let's splurge on a few things hot and sweet, shall we, girls? We have time. It's a special day—Star's last first day of high school. A new beginning for both of you." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of starting junior high school, I lived like the Victorian recluses I read about. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ride up the hill past Rachel’s house, past the high school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He's eleven years younger than I am, and by the time he reached high school, the rest of us had all left home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My avatar materialized in front of my locker on the second floor of my high school—the exact spot where I’d been standing when I’d logged out the night before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Because right now, only about half the high school who had lunch fifth period sat in the cafeteria that day. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had a baby in high school, and no one ever found out about it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The kind we made every year, even when you got to high school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I knew Coach Dub. He was my position coach in football. Played linebacker for him for three years in high school.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told us that we’d better be running over the summer because they didn’t fool around in high school PE. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were no bursts of applause, no coach’s speech comparing him to the great Permian runners of the past, no take-your-sweet-time walk down the aisle of the crowded high school cafeteria. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He did math for an hour,” his brother Mark says of Langan’s summer routine in high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known for sure until I happened to take a closer look at the book I’d accidentally stolen from the high school and had yet to return. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"We had no idea what it meant to be in high school. What we were supposed to act like, what we were supposed to talk about..." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After high school, Gray worked his way rapidly through Alabama State College and then went off to law school in Ohio. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

To help alleviate the costs for beginners or for kids whose parents weren’t willing or able to purchase fencing equipment, our high school had equipment for rent, like jackets, knickers, and lames. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We walked over to the courts behind the high school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s one thing to hit jumpers over other eighth graders; it’s a whole other thing to score on high school monsters. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The junior high school entrance examination had been abolished. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if I can’t afford college, why would someone as brilliant as Arthur want to be with me, someone who’s struggling with high school? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In 1996, the Chicago Board of Education enforced new rules saying that students had to make at least a 6.8 grade level in reading and math to move on to high school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An all-black group of junior high school girls paid close attention to Mary and Emma Jean’s joint lecture, entitled “The Aspects of Engineering for Women.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. I thought I might run the ranch when I get out of high school.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ran off with all the water in high school pools to use elsewhere, before they realized they’d be turning some of those schools into evacuation centers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Lost? She thinks this is the high school?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The high school was out, too, and so my sister was always in a happy, happy mood. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But my older brother was on television, and so far, it has been the highlight of my two weeks in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she rambled on about how graduating from high school wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be and how much she hated her job at the Waffle House. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“We’re in high school, Ocean. We don’t know anything about forever.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Seattle is so annoying. I can’t wait until I graduate from high school and I can move literally anywhere else in the world.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said out loud, as it dawned on me that it was heading straight for the high school! All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Before he left the house to walk the single mile to the high school, Lillian handed him a letter and told him to read it when he found the time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, was there some signature on his brain of the concussions he sustained playing high school sports? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The high schools were scheduled to open early that year, on August 12, 1959, before the pools even closed. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even without the extra competitions, fencing was expensive, even at the high school level. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And I thought for just a minute there that I had a boyfriend, I would start high school with a boyfriend, older and stronger and ready to watch out for me. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She suggested he apply to Job Corps, a U.S. government program that provides vocational training to people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four and that offers the chance to earn a high school degree. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1960, black high school and college students staged sit-in demonstrations at segregated lunch counters and restaurants in more than a hundred Southern cities. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sponsored by the Arizona League of Women Voters, the event was open to any high school student who cared to show his or her stuff as a public speaker. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

If I had to go to my mothers world for high school, I was determined to go to mine for college. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew something. What, I’m not really sure. I didn’t actually come out until I was a senior in high school.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” said Mom, shrugging, “at least that she would tell me. But. . . first day of high school and all that.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A ninth-grade academy in a separate building, which had been successful in acclimating students to high school, was to be shut down. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Momma got pregnant with me, she was in her senior year of high school and Nana put her out the house. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My problems may have seemed big to me in high school, but I wasn't dealing with arranged marriages to the wrong man or a love affair that would leave me ostracized from my entire family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I flew to the competition with fencing friends from other local high schools and the foundation. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students in my classes were in high school or still in college, and I was twenty-one, but I didn’t care. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And I would watch it with sorrow and disgust, unable then to imagine what he was going through, too far into my own junior high school survival. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom had already insisted on pictures with Matthew before their dad drove him to the high school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But she was feisty and tough, so she kept going and graduated from high school, too, a few years after I did. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A quick call to my high school and he’ll know David’s name, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I used to play this game in high school,” Shukumar recalled. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now I can remember putting it into the trunk, before I went to high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. So anyway, I’ve been thinking about when things started getting bad for me. I realized: it started after I got into high school.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It was my obsession,” Gates says of his early high school years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Orpheus Fisher, the boyfriend from her high school days, still hoped that they could have a future together. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He thought about the many girlfriends he’d had in high school. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m so lucky that I get to go to four high schools instead of just one,” Ben declared with feigned enthusiasm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was asked to join high school sororities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, what’s typical these days? When I was in high school, everyone wore floor length, but I hear that’s not a thing anymore.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was an All-City jazz band rehearsal day, and when I got to the high school, I found out that Brian was at home sick. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have exactly two friends at my high school. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had never done anything with computers in high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“All he does is work on the model for the new junior high school. He goes over and over it. He moves a pillar here, then another one there. It’s not classical enough,’ he says. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Wait a minute. Terry Gallant? I went to high school with her! I didn’t know Jack was her kid.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was the doubt that sat in my mind through student orientation, through my first sessions of high school biology and English, through my somewhat fumbling get-to-know-you conversations in the cafeteria with new friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was little money to outfit me for high school, and there were few jobs available to a fourteen-year-old. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The rain continued to hammer down, pounding on the long line of kids trudging north, around the football stadium, toward the high school gymnasium. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has taken geometry in high school has seen them: they are the sets of numbers in parentheses that represent a point in space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Bridge could see this for herself, and Tab’s older sister, Celeste, who was in high school, confirmed it: “Look at Emily with the curvy new curves!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

This, of course, is a particular high school syndrome: the feeling that if you’re in some emotional distress, other people are always focusing as intensely on your problems as you are. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I have to be at the high school at four o’clock. I have a meeting. I figured you could watch the football team practice. OK?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high school is old, the stalls are wooden, some kind of chipboard. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tabitha was still in high school, and she was finding the same thing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since many of them will be the first in their family to graduate from high school, their parents aren’t pushing them to go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Really? Have you ever been to a party? Like, in high school?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had a more candid relationship with my classmate Hillar Kaplan, an artist in Los Angeles and one of the group of girls in high school who orbited around him. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

You know they aren’t going to last, but when you start in on them, they’re like a week of summer plunked down as a gift in the middle of junior high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had the support and involvement of parents, teachers, friends, and an involved, knowledgeable college adviser at her high school. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to a new high school, too. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Poor old Derby, the doomed high school teacher, lumbered to his feet for what was probably the finest moment in his life. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t exactly a high school student but she was eligible to be one. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was my junior year of high school, and Mitra persuaded my parents to let me play hooky for the day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Fizz et al go to a Muslim high school. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“And come summer, we were so uncomfortable. In high school—this was in the late seventies—some of us went without underwear, just to stay cool. Knee socks with no underwear!” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My high school friends would still have been whining over boyfriends and fighting for carhop jobs at the A&W. Their idea of a dog-eat-dog world was Beauty School. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to be a novelist, so she spent high school working to save enough money for a college with a good creative-writing program. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m not ready to think about high school yet. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The silver- backed brushes were a constant reminder of what her wishes for him were—that he not stop his education at high school, but go on to college and medical school. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once high school was finished, my parents insisted that I go to the States for college — and given the state of the universities in Congo, I agreed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So after much debate, Kitty and I have decided to get him settled into one place for his last three years of high school, and then he can apply to college. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But knowing my high school, they’ll probably find a way to tack any lost days on at the end, delaying our summer vacation. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You should come to California with me. We could go to Disneyland or Universal Studios. You know, to celebrate graduating high school.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Maestas left the room and a high school girl came and sat at the desk while we ate. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Permian scored three touchdowns in the second half to defeat Port Arthur Jefferson 28-19 and win its third state championship in one of the great upsets in modern Texas high school history. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You met Alex while you were doing the high school musical. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Gunwoo had been proud of the fact that his father had been a headmaster of a high school in North Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Everyone at Epiphany Middle School was to be transported to the high school by bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not. But a high school education? Critical. It’s a D now, but that D will turn to an F if you keep this up. I had a similar conversation with your brother once.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The age-old question—can a boy access his softer and more artistic side and still be a genuine boy?—still has currency in corners of the high school and within some of the families. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Richard was a junior in high school, she was working in food service at a residential care facility. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But Nora’s doing Hanukkah in Vermont, and he doesn’t want to annoy her, and his best friend from high school, Liam, has barely spoken to him since he moved to DC. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Look how he quiet and respectful, just like his father was in high school,” a large woman with dark purple hair extensions says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subject that grew out of this critical insight, analytic geometry, is essential to understanding calculus; yet our students are coming out of high school unable to graph straight lines or parabolas. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In high school, she could’ve been voted most likely to talk too much. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On the day that Epiphany Middle School was invited to attend Annie, Mrs. Olinski had driven her van to the high school and had arrived ahead of the school bus. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Down front, a high school orchestra played rousing music by John Philip Sousa. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

By my senior year of high school, I can say with total confidence, I'd seen my dad cry approximately one million times. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Alfred pretended he hadn't heard him, a big-shot politician he had never liked in high school. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Maureen had graduated from high school and enrolled in one of the city colleges, but she never really applied herself and ended up living with Mom and Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was. It was more a passing hobby in middle school and high school. But I’m not going to have time for all that. I have a real career to focus on, you know?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She made it clear that neither he nor Nicholas was welcome until they got themselves together, got their high school equivalency diplomas, and started taking care of their kids. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The middle school office is located in a one- story building that looks like the younger brother of the high school building. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His brother used to make my brother Aaron’s life a living hell. That’s why Aaron went to a private high school.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but he didn’t go to high school there, remember?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She went from high school to digging trenches, then escorted other citizens to shelter during Leningrad’s long siege of bombing and starvation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I was totally in love with this guy in high school and I brought him up here and...” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

And in high school, well, the stories about Nick’s other adventures could go on and on and on. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Volpe will be the first to put this drama on a high school stage. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He attended productions at other local high schools and made friends and mentors of their drama directors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's part of the university, not the high school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I found myself with a full white family—a mom and dad, three sisters, and a baby brother—in a totally white community, attending a 99 percent white high school. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in high school, she got interested in boys and realized she wouldn’t make a good nun. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As I stepped out of the car and mentally prepared myself for another potentially traumatic day of high school, he would say, "Be nice to the boys!" Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Still—all things considered, Molly knows she has it pretty good: her own room in a tidy house, employed and sober foster parents, a decent high school, a nice boyfriend. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was yet another high school list I compiled. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said nothing tests friendships like high school, and then proceeded to poke fun at the fact that I was reading War and Peace. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He compared the ages when they started walking and talking and what their precise IQ scores were in elementary and high school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All through high school, I referred to her as my "cool cousin." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I'd studied Spanish in high school but had no idea whom she was calling or what they were talking about. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t bother to say her name, first or last, because you would’ve had to be from another high school or maybe even from out of state not to know who she was. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I begged Mom to let me go to my neighborhood high school, but she just kept telling me, “Jade, honey, this is a good opportunity.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was the daughter of friends of his parents who had lived for a while in Massachusetts, then moved to New Jersey when he was in high school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If these students didn’t get help and find a way to succeed in school, they would fail out or simply get too old for high school, at which point they would be on their own. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’ve been to a few small ones with friends in high school, and I swear they weren’t so bad. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My dad was eighteen years old, just finishing high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When she reached high school, her father created an after-school tutoring program for the students at Perkins and put Siobhan in charge of it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It resembled the sound of crowds at my high school football games. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cast mate who became her longtime high school boyfriend was not Bobby Ryan, but Wayne Miletto, who in Good Boys plays the part of the football coach. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d keep my head down, my thoughts lost to whatever song was on, me somehow both in a high school in Miles City and also in some other world entirely. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

As a girl new to America my mother had been awarded a high school diploma by teachers too careless or busy to notice that she hardly spoke English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if high school isn’t hard enough, this would make it ten times harder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’s spoken to the Detroit Lions football team, and gives a regular presentation to the top high school basketball players in the world when they gather at national clinics. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But as long as he was in high school, doing what he was doing, he felt insulated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Cordelia was your best friend, in high school,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amy told me I was crazy to be worried about college before we even started high school, but I wasn’t going to wait until it was too late. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Problems come up, and the high schools are supposed to solve them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It’s one of the reasons why Brady left after he graduated from high school. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her mom had already insisted on pictures with Matthew before their dad drove him to the high school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you go to that high school over there?” she asks. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like all of a sudden I was way too old for high school, even though I really wasn’t. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her high school and college records were examined, and her former teachers and administrators were questioned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Whether or not he graduated from high school wouldn’t mean a whole heck of a lot. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’m freaked out to see me like this, and I’m a junior in high school. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A couple of days after spring break ended, Mom found out that Via hadn’t told her about a school play that was happening at her high school the next week. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As with any high school on Friday, the anticipation of the weekend brought excitement, and this was a special Friday for Central High’s student body. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high school is next to the middle school. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She was quiet for a moment, thinking, Jesse decided, about her former school, which he saw as bright and new with a gleaming gymnasium larger than the one at the consolidated high school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Where were you when /was in high school?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was the same basic high school garbage wrapped in a slightly different skin. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

David didn’t say anything about it being a high school class, and I loved him for it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine. My parents want me to go there because they think it’ll help me get into a good college. It has a high school, too.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

From Anika78 in suburban Chicago: I was stopped at the door of my high school because I was wearing a trench coat. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was made clear when I signed up for art classes in high school. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Several times that weekend around the supper table, he recited his own high school valedictorian speech. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My mom seems happier about me getting into the hospital than she was about me getting into high school. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Mo always said you worried too much. Told me I needed to make sure you didn't go gray before high school." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I planned to meet more people and have slumber parties when I started going to high school in another year. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Most of my new high school friends were black, but that didn't necessarily translate, it turned out, to any sort of uniformity in our experience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She didn’t read well, which was one of the reasons she had dropped out of high school. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father knows important things, even if he isn’t “book smart” like my mother, who was a high school science teacher until Zack was born. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

With all these windows into the lives of students and the close attention he paid, he has become an authority on high school sociology. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I learned it when I attended high school. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I may not have finished high school, but my homestead life continues to provide essential education. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I ditched that quick enough, but one thought struck me about that dumb high school I go to. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Junior answered, “Yeah, we did. All of us graduated high school and all seven of us graduated from college too. Our school was just six blocks from here. 1 graduated fourth in my class.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though their place was walking distance to my high school, I decided that I didn't want to be in such tight quarters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It’s too much for this high school parking lot with beeping horns and laughter and buses idling by the curb. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were Gaines’s words, but they could have come from any high school coach renewing the ritual of sport, the ritual of high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was nothing like the drunken roll in the back of some guy’s Chevy that passed for a relationship when I was in high school. You guys seemed, still seem, in love, truly, deeply.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he had never been trained as a teacher, the school asked Mendel to sit for the formal examination in the natural sciences for high school teachers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She worked odd jobs, took night classes to get her high school diploma, and raised me on her own. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had no motive for working hard academically, and he was deeply distracted by personal and familial problems and in full-blown rebellion almost every day of his high school life. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was the fastest runner in high school,” he told us once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like you would be here when I got back. You don’t even look old enough to be high school students. Let me see your IDs,” he said, snapping his fingers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No. But the TV doesn’t do high school very well.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Other high school directors, many of them good friends, keep stopping him to lavish praise on the show. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

None of my aunts or uncles had graduated from college; many hadn't graduated from high school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Matt had flunked out of high school but had an impressive mind when it came to cataloguing Dead trivia. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If they survived long enough to graduate from high school, they either stayed on as counselors or left to start lives as best they could in the mortal world. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My door slammed open, and in walked First Sergeant Anderson, a high school senior with an impressively premature five-o’clock shadow, a scruffy voice, and the posture and mannerisms of a bulldog. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Take starting a private high school for the Negroes, for example. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the opposite wall is her high school graduation picture. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the others married and had babies right after high school. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The junior high school entrance examination dreaded by all of us was gone. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in high school when Kennedy’s picture went up on the wall. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years, including his stint in high school, the basement had been Myron’s bedroom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He sounded old, like Pa. Not young like someone out of high school for a year and three months. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I would still be an illegal immigrant, but at least now I was one with an American boyfriend and a high school diploma. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then Charlie started high school and was too cool to go fishing anymore. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I was in my last year of high school, a letter for me from a federal prison arrived in care of the school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Esperanza lucked out, by virtue of living in Piedmont, because it meant she got to go to one of the best public high schools in the Bay Area. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Secondary, College, and Graduate Education Once students reach high school, the problem of teacher competence becomes more critical. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came home those nights, he didn't have much to say, just sat at the dining-room table slowly going through the pages of his high school yearbook, looking lost. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would be so that she’d never get to high school; maybe she’d never have more education than she had at that moment. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the boys back in Congo who were forced to serve as child soldiers, and the girls who were married off, never given a chance to finish high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She got the money when she was still in high school?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Graham was the public high school nearest to Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hundred and fifty miles to the west, there was no need to find a catalyst for the zeal that could be created by a winning high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of my junior year, I went to Miss Katona, the high school guidance counselor, to ask for the names of colleges in New York. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lou is twenty-five years old, dressed in a leather jacket, handsome, cradling Tommy in the crook of his arm in the bleachers at a high school football game. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If I thought balancing academics and athletics in high school was challenging, college was ten times more intense. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The new school year was just around the corner, and if I chose to go to regular high school, they needed to enroll me. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“She’s just doing this because she wants to finally have that high school experience she never had. It means nothing.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He rolls over and takes me by the shoulder, holding on tight like I’m graduating from high school and he’s handing me a diploma. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But virtual or not, this was still high school—the more childish an insult, the more effective it was. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

News & World Report ranked it as the top high school in Utah, and one of the top seven hundred in the United States. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You can always go to high school if you want,” she said. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He had done this several times when I was in high school and in college in California, for no reason really except to display his authority in front of my mother and his co-workers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the world of high school insults, it was actually pretty tame, but Miles’s reaction made it terrible. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He was not well educated at all—he’d never even finished high school in Japan—but anyway, that was what he was accused of. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

With Mr. Rice gone, there was only one teacher for the whole high school. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all very world-class down here, where I used to buy cheap nighties in high school with my tiny clothes allowance, on sale at that and a size too large. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her new roommate looked just like the snotty girls who had made high school miserable: pretty, beautifully dressed, somehow at ease with the world, and that first night she had cried herself to sleep. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sam had me doing the same workouts I’d been doing in high school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nowhere is the stratification of education more vivid than in Virginia, where Thomas Jefferson once tried, and failed, to set up the nation’s first public high schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the high school football game the other day, and I don’t know exactly why. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But so is graduating from high school and leaving it behind. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But we’re supposed to go to high school together, then do our gap year in Paris before we go to New York for college, remember?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They had not gone to an American high school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If I were a little bummed out, I’d probably welcome the distraction that is Ducky’s charm and the ridiculousness of Steff as a high school senior in an oxford unbuttoned to his midriff. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If in high school I’d felt as if I were representing my neighborhood, now at Princeton I was representing my race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In high school, the basketball team is not as good as it was but there is no problem getting time on the gymnasium floor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I’m a month away from starting my junior year of high school, and I just found out my father only has four months to live. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“It was right before we moved to New Jersey. You sat with your American friends from high school. A few of your teachers were there. You seemed a little embarrassed by it all.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d missed out on all the social experiences of high school, and even though Adria kept joking that I could be her date for prom, it would never be the same as attending my own. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wait for me to stand before class, easily reading words even high school students stumble over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You know, I’m looking for a good high school for my niece,” the woman says. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

By the time we were in high school, he’d become an outright celebrity—charismatic, well connected, and constantly on the move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I never would have guessed that the visit from the prison alumni I laughed at in high school had been an omen of my future. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then the Brianas are talking about life after high school— one is a musician, one is planning to be a copy editor, and the other is practically engaged to her longtime boyfriend. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Many high schools do a poor job of preparing teenagers for college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She can sense all the other stuff you find at any high school, too—the bravado and insecurity and self-consciousness and pretending. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So I called my sister at high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She had her back to me, singing a little something, maybe it was Lesley Gore, maybe not, but definitely somebody from her high school days. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

So it wasn’t until we were leaving the dance studio that I was suddenly reminded that I was in high school, and that, for some reason, Navid and his friends were kind of cool. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first week of school I asked someone how many pro athletes had come out of this high school. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

For general cleaning, the kind a custodian would do in a high school, you’d go with a much gentler, cheaper agent, diluted bleach. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z