Not a single black child attended an integrated public grade school in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi as of the 1962–1963 school year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, everybody. I lost track of the time. We have to go pick up my daughter at her new school. She’s taking an unofficial tour today.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She thought about the history test she had had on Monday at school. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our school yard is nothing but concrete with an old handball wall and fading basketball lines. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He would rather pay for us to study privately than to go to school with gentiles, but the law was the law, so I had to go to school with the white folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, the good news is that we’ll be at the same school,” I say finally. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

We're pulling into school now, the place entirely dead, not even a car in the faculty lot. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I was at school. I ran away from the fighting. I do not know where my family is.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found little difference in pregnancy rates or school drop-out rates in neighborhoods of between 40 and 5 percent of high- status workers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I go now. I be here pick you up when school over. Wait if I late.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All week, she’s been complaining about buying me school supplies, saying she doesn’t want to waste the gas. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what you do when you’re not at school or work or running jobs. Where do you even live?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I usually walk home from school because it makes me feel like I’ve earned it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“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

It wasn’t like other school plays I’ve been to, like The Wizard of Oz or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, Monday. Baachan especially would like you to go to school and study hard. That way...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He started talking about his high school football career and, of course, his regrets about college. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school day began with prayer—the Morning Offering. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a long shot that all three of us would be accepted, especially when almost no one else from our middle school was. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Parents of a friend in Farmer’s advanced elementary school class introduced P.J. to Tolkien’s trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I need friends, Bax. I don’t need friends getting booted from school.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have come to offer Tom a place at my school.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I was going into ninth grade, to a new school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of the school looked like a maze of stucco walls, each hall exactly like the one she had just come down, or turned around in and walked back the other way. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He had agreed to be their official Quiz Bowl coach because he really didn’t want anybody tearing down the school, either. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

“My mother’s dragging me out for school supplies.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

How many kids go to school and come home to find that both of their parents are dead? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

So I stayed in his room after school and waited for the other twisted criminal minds to come join me for ninety minutes of forced study. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was never asked out for a date by anyone in school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you how school went. You’re not the only one who had a tough go. It was picture day today.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Barack would be leaving sometime in August, disappearing into law school and whatever else life held for him there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I take the school bus home that afternoon, and when I walk into Morning Glory Cottage, Mom is on the phone in the kitchen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were ever here.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In Bridgeport, there would be boys’ schools and girls’ schools, and they’d all be split up. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Quick recap: I’m in summer school with my ex-boyfriend. I thought I was going to reunite with a cute guy yesterday. I didn’t. Life sucks.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Every other school in the country was getting ready for campouts and parties to celebrate the end of the year. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You’d better get back to school,” Sirius said, getting to his feet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why he was going away somewhere to school. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

All week Francie walked home slowly from school with her eyes in the gutter looking for tin foil from cigarette packages or chewing gum wrappers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran into the school and came out carrying injured children. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as a kid, I preferred the black side, and often wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He teaches English in a college near the Hudson River, and during the long school vacations he helped me with difficult chores, like making clay pots and blueberry jam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was supposed to come to Freetown for school, but then the war came. I heard it is a beautiful city,” Alhaji said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But now, listening to Leon sounding as if the school was embarking on the Crusades, for crying out loud, Archie was doubtful. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Gey eight years to get through medical school because he kept dropping out to work construction and save for another year’s tuition. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Because the girls at the lab school are mostly scary. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “Total” column represents their cumulative classroom learning from all five years of elementary school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We had a brand-new brick school now, and a brand-new Confederate flag out there on the stage. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about other new schools that I had entered. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of softball games are being played behind the elementary school, but I don’t stop to watch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

No school could have more than one of its actors named. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

All the other children at my school are stupid. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He used to sit in the front window every day with a stick in his mouth and wait for me to come home from school to play fetch.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I became quite the ninja when it came to undressing in our high school locker room, developing strategies to change my clothes so that no one would actually have to see me naked. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Abdel-Qawi, the school principal, had concluded the letter he read over the loudspeaker by reminding students to “show our student, currently in custody, compassion and tolerance.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was so focused on getting to the school that he almost didn’t see her walking along the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a bomb threat was made at her school, they decided the safest solution was to move to another town. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She must be a great writer if the school board is afraid of her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

At dinner, when Mama asked how Sunday school was, he said “fine” in his usual monosyllabic way but gave me a warning look that I knew meant I should keep my mouth shut. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We asked for help to send disabled and street children to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Also, he called Mom into school on Wednesday. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Usually, at the beginning of the academic year, the team would be nearing their first game and the school would be focused on them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’d come up to me after school, ask me if I had plans, and I’d say yes, I have big plans to get the hell out of here, and they didn’t get it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I actually went to your middle school, remember? Last year? I was the one with the gorgeous bod and the perfect makeup?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Given a choice between traditional discipline—which would probably have meant Saturday school—and participating in a restorative justice circle with the three girls he’d touched, Jeff chose restorative justice. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One Friday after school, Carl invited me to his home to see his coin collection. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That day Bull had signed Ben and Matthew up to serve the 11:15 Sunday Mass for the entire school year. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was time to quit school and get a job. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could call the school and tell them not to let Maribel get off the bus if I wasn't there in time. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was a few years out of school and beginning to think I ought to do some graduate study, though in what I didn’t know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. And you better go back to school. You have to become a teacher. It's not every day you get a second chance like this.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Slytherin, according to the legend, sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that none would be able to open it until his own true heir arrived at the school. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In school the next day I was dull. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the school day, I got a text from Nicole: Need help please call soon as you can. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I knew that Ocean, for example, would never befriend me beyond this school assignment. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as the bell rang, he left Mr. Torres’s World History and Civilizations class and wove his way through the crowds to reach the large studio at the back of the school. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Walter McMillian, like Tom Robinson, grew up in one of several poor black settlements outside of Monroeville, where he worked the fields with his family before he was old enough to attend school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While Fern was in school, Wilbur was shut up inside his yard. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I was abruptly awakened by the loud ringing of a churchbell, signalling the start of the school day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, we sat by grade, next to whoever our friends were. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I walk the next blocks, turn the corner, expecting to see the familiar dingy oblong of the school, in weathered red brick the color of dried liver. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now they seemed not ready to give up the old school, the familiar paths and classrooms. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its residents were still fighting for water, sewage lines, and schools. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had known boys like him in school—desperate to be a man, yet trapped in his own mind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The only problem is, it's difficult to be a nobody when everyone in school knows you and your mother, when your artwork is going to be on the entrance of the building. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s the field that leads us back to school,” I replied. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Only once did he receive a grade lower than B: an F, in high school physics. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many secrets can there be at one school? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather had all the books sent to me, and she made sure I was keeping pace with what all the public school kids in my grade were doing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the mornings when Ashley and Tevin got dropped off at school and us younger ones got dropped off at day care, my baby sister would cry inconsolably. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Schillinger brothers warmed up their violins as older children chased each other around the school room. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After class he followed me all the way to the lockers and then to the gym, quiet, until we saw Celia being led from the main office by her father and the school security guard. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After school ends, Mrs. Battle and the girls’ team come with balloons and cards, but they aren’t allowed in either, which really makes me worry about Erin. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing a school project on local government. Would we be able to see some records from a council meeting?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I walked into the front office, Mrs. Soto, the school secretary, looked up. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

On the way to school, Momma keeps giving me little sideways looks until finally I say, “What?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Morgan's not at school on Friday, and she’s not replying to my texts. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Rashid watched her go, went up to the second floor, and then headed to the bathroom near the science classrooms, at other end of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I remember my old school, but only dimly, as if I was last there five years ago instead of five months. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our school uniforms were white shirts and dark blue pants or skirts. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If Joe graduated from a school as highly regarded as Roosevelt, Fred said, he just might be able to get into the University of Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to go to a school for almost seven years and then one day discover that there’s a dentist’s office inside it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Elena was determined to return to her hometown after school, and the more she told him about it, the more willing he was. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rest of her teachers had just welcomed her to the school and left it at that. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

And with that, Princeton became my top choice for school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“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

Walking to school, I am feeling better, like I just may be able to pull this thing off. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what it’s like uptown. We’re fine here. I’m going to go to school and see what I can find out.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘No child of mine’, he kept saying, ‘is going to school anywhere else but in England.’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m new in this school, and nobody paid any attention to me until I pulled you out of my pocket. You have to run the maze.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

She spends the twelve minutes of our ride to school humming, and I spend the rest of the day peeking around corners and flinching at every unexpected sound. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Nok, your father and I have been talking, and we think it could be good for you to stay here in Tanaburi for the rest of the school year.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She looked way too young to be in high school, and her clothes just made it worse. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

All my friends in elementary school were Pakistani and Indian. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I decided to make it a boarding school in the boonies.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Something better be done,” she says, “or the school board is going to hear about it.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to live after Isaac didn’t make it out of the school,” he said. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But the thought of the strange woman’s lamentations over her dead son presented a somewhat strong case for going to school: I didn’t want to end up dead in the streets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw half of the school staff running toward the scene of the fight. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was inert, still in my school clothes, lying on top of my sheets, dozing in a transitory space between asleep and awake. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I would be spending brief periods on a gallery but would also have a lot of time off, accompanying inmates to the mess hall and, later, to the commissary or package room or school building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked out of the school and wouldn’t slow down. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“So of course it had to be me that hacked into the school network.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some kids cheat at home but not at school; some kids cheat at school but not at home. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every athletic coach at Bartlett High has been trying to recruit him since he first walked through the school doors, but he refuses to be a black stereotype. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I left school, walked around, and didn’t get home until one o’clock in the morning. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

While I’m off to boarding school, Tanisha’s headed to Saint Anthony’s to play basketball. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t have left school, but Amá is always talking about how it’s a sin to waste this and that and it feels like a sin to waste a day like this. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “Well, you think about it. Maybe you should go to bed now. Why didn’t you go to school today?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For two months, Rowan had been the school pariah—an outcast of the highest order. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“He is. And there’s a girl named Shay at school who isn’t very nice to me.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every day when the older children went off to school, I asked to go as well. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It’s about a girl and her older sister who get to leave school and go to the hotdog store for lunch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He and Omar slugged each other hello and boarded the school bus. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s the kind of a place I’m in with a world war going on. A school for photographers of beaver dams.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Just restless. End of school does that to me. Keeps me awake. My brain won’t stop talking.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Most of the boys had stayed late to pitch horseshoes in the school yard, but Tony joined her. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You know how at every open house at school, when the teacher meets your mom, they tell her, ‘Oh! Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

My mother sometimes invited my grammar school friends to stay for dinner or even to stay overnight. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know about the shutting down or the trouble at school beyond sophomore year because last year, after the guitar-smashing episode, I told Principal Wertz my dad was killed in a hunting accident. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Under apartheid, the government built what became known as Bantu schools. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“One spring, she just stopped coming to school as much, and in the fall, she didn’t come back. We were told she was too sick to do much besides stay in Morning Glory Cottage.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how news travels around school and why it is very often right. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The way I got to really know her, I had to stay after school one day for flipping spitballs, and she was staying late so Miss Neppie could help her catch up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When I came to school in the middle of the year, my class was studying fractions. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For those of you who did go, let me describe what school was like on the day of his funeral. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Between my moms night classes and my private school tuition, we could never afford to do special stuff like shop for a skateboard. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They also began teaching “space” courses, and they invited me to come back to the school to take some of them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you did. I think I’m going to turn in. Tomorrow is a school day.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a school of thought,” I said, “that parents shouldn’t criticize children. They should encourage instead. You know, people rise to other people’s expectations. And when you criticize, it just means you’re expecting failure.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to school early and stayed late. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There were several letters about distant relatives dying, school and job acceptance letters, invitations to weddings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Wow. Do you even like going to that school?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s the most unpopular guy in the whole school. I’m not even a close second.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the time Dad had played the back half of a donkey in the school pantomime. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Told you at the very beginning that I was in summer school with Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I read magazine articles in the school library on health and gave them mental physical examinations and tested the health of their marriage. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, she said today, before this all happened, that she wondered how long the school could keep this up. I wouldn’t be surprised if they finally gave up on all this after today.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Those are just a hobby, Ashish. Kid stuff. This is real life. It’s not high school anymore.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nydia’s eyes were wide, like a little kid on the first day of school, and Jerome and Izzy gaped in amazement. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Graham was the public high school nearest to Coconut Cove. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One area of concern is the shrinking playground time during the school day due to an emphasis on more test-driven curricula. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When I returned home from school that afternoon, I went to see if he was waiting for me by the creek. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’d be a good idea if you stayed home from school and cleaned the house with me tomorrow.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every junior in the school had known for two weeks, and so far not even the faintest rumor had leaked out. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When Deborah was a junior in high school, at the age of sixteen, she got pregnant with her first child. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s my father. But I don’t like talking about him at school. I don’t want people trying to be my friend just because my dad is famous.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He showed her the park and how she could walk through it diagonally to go to school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the school superintendent, Carl Cohn, supported us all the way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since I’d never made a lot of friends in Welch, I hardly ever went to the school’s football games or dances or rallies. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even David, my old high school boyfriend, sometimes dropped in to seek his counsel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

My life began revolving around school, reading and tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since his school required it, he had managed to develop an athletic build in gym, but he viewed sports as a dull and useless pastime. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around him the shouts and screams of children playing and running about echoed from the school’s brick walls, and a cold wind carried the noise away over Port Meadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pictured him waiting at school for me every day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, while Siobhan was at school, he sat in on conference calls with his board members and employees, existing clients and new customers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s not that I love the poem, I mean I do, but it’s mostly just nice to know that there’s someone as weird as I am in this school. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“What, they didn’t teach you about hordes at your fancy government school?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Why you so happy to go to school?” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying I think the school handled this right,” he said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“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

My father, in light of my continued successes at school, had begun claiming all the credit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made it all the way to the track with my back straight and caught up with Ghost and Lu going on about some dude who Ghost, I guessed, was having beef with at school. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"Did you have a good day at school?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I’m almost at the doors to school when someone beeps from the parking lot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Jasmine holds my hand all the way out to the school gates. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He has found a new job, not in Paris or the Netherlands, not in art or preaching, but in teaching, at a boys’ boarding school run by a minister on the eastern coast of England. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Fenwick had gone to school at the same time as him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“But you were so close to finishing! You can’t quit school for some food stamps!” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was an old school friend of her brother’s. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about to tell another of his stories about school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

After searching all over the house for days, he had found an old school satchel, in a drawer in one of the spare bedrooms. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

When he got home after school, he called the Shaws. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Waves seem to ripple across the fabric, and a school of bright orange fish zips around her waist. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There has to be something serious, something provable, something that violates school policies, or something that violates the law. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom played the radio the whole way to school, laughing at some joke the DJ made, then glancing at Grace to see if she thought it was funny, too. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I skipped. I skip all the time. It don’t matter. What do I need school for? You don’t need school to join the circus.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before I left the Hollows for home school, pretty much everybody called me Spaceman. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And the proof was obvious to everyone when a new girl came to school when I was about nine. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After feeling more and more like an outcast, Peer Communications was my safe haven at school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He’d perform Dhuhr early, as he often did when school was in session, then get in line after he was done. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The learning environment of the missionary schools, while often morally rigid, was far more open than the racist principles underlying government schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a while, I began to think of school again. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Noah has an overactive imagination, written on every school report I’ve ever gotten. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“No. But there’s something I want to look into. I’d drive you back to school, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for us to be seen together just now.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

If only I could make Mr. Norton understand what the school meant to me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Facebook and Instagram had existed back then, the rest of the school would have died of jealousy from the #NoFilter window into their social lives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Iona had several sports fields of its own—more than enough room for the few hundred students from our small elementary school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the bus pulled out of the parking lot and headed toward town, Howard rattled off a list of school bus rules. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A boy at school called Ashton had had nits in his hair last term and the matron had made him dip his whole head in turpentine. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was a two-year school with a focus on communication arts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I showed up for the first day of school and went to my classroom. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He’s definitely got a place at your school, you say?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad made me skip school this morning to go to Mass, even though it’s not even a Holy Day of Obligation. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As usual, at the end of the school day, Roberto and I met in the parking lot and headed for Main Street Elementary School. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But now I had left school and was out in the big world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The job is wheeling Brian Finestein around the block in his baby carriage after school, for an hour or a little longer if it isn’t too cold, one day a week. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the awful part about lunch was the eating part—school food. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come back next week, and let’s talk about school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only knew 1 had to go to school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A school bus pulled up to the stop sign at that corner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of a classroom with an endless chalkboard where I would be first—in school and in my mother’s heart. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

This morning, Justin woke me up before he left for school. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I've got to get him back to the school," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching her inspired me to do well in school so I could help her financially one day and she wouldn’t have to work so hard. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next two days I couldn’t go to school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As far as Shin could determine, none of these children were allowed to go to school. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Why do you wear high heels to school anyway?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nobody was taken to school by car in those days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, I started my businesses at school, and I’ve been secretly adding cash to the jar ever since. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Remember? Baker the tattoo artist who quit medical school?” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The school maintenance crew hadn’t washed it off, and what made it all the more powerful was that it was still true. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as school ended, Gale and I hit the woods, because I wanted to get enough to trade for a present for Prim. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though she and Tony were both in the fifth grade and had walked to school together since first grade, Stella felt a little self-conscious sitting in the dark with a boy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And have you riding all over school? Not a chance. You’d get lost or get into trouble or someone would see you.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The entire school looked forward eagerly to Christmas vacation. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, because her class is on the opposite side of school from the counseling office and I’m not exactly running to get there, I show up five minutes late to my appointment. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew only that we were the best students coming out of what was thought to be a middling, mostly black school in a middling, mostly black neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

The children’s Sunday school classes were already in session when I sat both boys in their metal folding chairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It's good, because I need money, and I need someplace to go after school where no 8-5s are likely to come knocking. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Felicia visits her son the first Sunday of each month at his school in the potato fields outside San Antonio de los Banos. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did I tell you my girlfriend went to art school?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is what school government is about—students uniting to take on a tough problem that affects all of us. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They marched into the gymnasium to meet their competition—Quiz Bowl teams from the five other middle schools in the district. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he could read the name, if the light was sufficient and if he had not forgotten too many of the little pictures he had learned at the scribe’s school. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

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

Draco Malfoy was strutting around the school as though he had just been appointed Head Boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The youngest, Luke, she had seen more often, back in the days when she had gone to school. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my friend Sam. She goes to my school.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I knew middle school would be good for you.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We wear cotton dresses to school, and cardigans, which we take off walking home. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the kids at school back home in Watley called me ’Lunch Meat.’” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, at work, I tried to think of what school must be like. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once, I am glad my school is so far from home. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When the “leader” wanted a little something for his people: “Er, boss, some of the people talking about we sure need a better school, boss.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys got a break from school, and since few had anywhere to go, they passed the time in one another’s apartments, playing video games and hanging out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I think I recognize her from my new middle school, which I transferred to last week. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

“We have a special guest today. It’s Arnold Spirit. I didn’t realize you still went to this school, Mr. Spirit.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Jim,” Mr. Crane began, “it’s like this, to make changes to the budget, we have to have the whole school board present.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you didn’t sign up,” Soojin complains as we sit down at what has already become our usual spot in the lunchroom three weeks into the school year. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

The bicycle she had ridden to school throughout her earlier years was taken to be refurbished and given to a different, younger child. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since it’s a school night, we end up leaving before the others. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was ten, in fourth grade, and probably the best climber in the whole school. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, which dictated that schools be desegregated, many black CPS students continued to attend schools that were nearly all black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But the thing is”—I fidgeted—“I’ve missed a lot of school now, and exams are coming soon. I was hoping I could go back to school tomorrow.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Again I walked out of the office and out of the school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And it is rolling through this school like a stink bomb. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Naheed had worn her hijab to school the very next day. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

With Boobie lost to the team, Permian, if it was blessed, might have one player sign a scholarship with a Division I school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that he had chafed against the schools, that he had almost been doomed by the streets. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Farms are really nice. Where do you go to school?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

With the excitement of watching the snow fall all day and school dismissed an hour early, I was on the bus home before I remembered that I was supposed to see her. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How have things been at school? Has that kid Derek been giving you any more trouble?” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had been planted on the front lawn of the high school, between the road and the bus lanes. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t the type of person to engineer fights between seventh-grade bullies and my brother after school, but I was still mad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“She said she recognized the colours of his school uniform,” Granny said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who’d call their mother, especially if she was generous and nourishing, a middle school? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

In Spanish I said, “My name is Alma Rivera. My daughter Maribel goes to your school. Is there someone who speaks Spanish?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I could find out....What school are you from?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When school was out in June, he said we couldn’t afford the train fare to Mississippi. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She helped a certain harelipped schoolmate with her homework, wrote her a part in the school play; and in return was introduced to that schoolmate’s brother, a man gentle, handsome, and intelligent past imagining. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

So I agreed to meet him there after school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Charlie, there are lots of other kids there. It’s a school.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

You must be very kind and respectful to those who are old, Charles, I am sure they teach you that at school.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They went to school, came straight home, and went straight into the house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We frequently retreated to the school gym to play basketball and to try to make sense of things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was like this at the end of high school, and then things got better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year she had her first job as an elementary school teacher in East Oakland. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On their way back to their building after school, Emily and James walked through the stretch of shops and restaurants that surrounded Hollister’s bookstore. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before long my sister and I were so caught up with school that neither of us thought much about the Coral Queen, or about what might happen to Dusty Muleman. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

This school was vastly different from Central High. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since school let out this summer, it had been nothing but skin pigment every livelong day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My school back in Kansas only had about three hundred students. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My mother stayed in school until fifth grade, but then her family could no longer afford to send her. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Comparing it to every other art school is never going to turn out well because Prism is the art school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been about to leave for school. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when Mom drops me off at school, fourth period has only just started. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In 1951, McKissick applied to the law school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and was rejected because of his race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the matter of school desegregation, Durham’s reputation for tolerance, racial harmony, and liberal politics once again proved sadly overrated. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know I asked for it, and that it looked good at Ronnie’s place, but seeing it in the school bathroom mirror is something else. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder what he told the boys this morning when I wasn’t there to make their breakfast and get them ready for school. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was said around school that she didn’t have any time for children who pretended to get out of doing work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton said that this was to give them a chance to support their families and go to school. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not exactly a forest, just a single line of maples that created a barrier between the school and the road. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next time I heard his voice was when I came home from school the next day. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Maybe," she said, holding up the envelope again, "they're postponing school? Maybe the first day isn't going to be next Tuesday? Ya think?" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Were we going to steal the clapper of the school bell, or would we tether a cow in chapel? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a school, most whites never had much use for Ector once it had become pegged as the minority school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, just yesterday when I got home from school, my mom looked at me strangely—which she’s been doing a lot of lately—but this time there was a clear reason. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He knew Emo meant what he said; Emo had hated him since the time they had been in grade school together, and the only reason for this hate was that Tayo was part white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The half-American with the Arab eyes in the navy blue Armenian school uniform. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The children in the camp must go to school. We have to create some sort of school here.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He stuck his head in Mrs. Granger’s doorway after school. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you babbling about? I didn’t do anything to Cap. It was Winkleman! Haven’t you heard? It’s all over the school.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“And I have to get ready for school, and I’m not ready at all to go study.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

I was an Outstanding Student, an Excellent Young Pioneer, and even the da-dui-zhang, the student chairman of the whole school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother couldn’t handle teaching the kids at home and running the farm, too, so she sent them off on the bus to school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, I wouldn’t join any school club or organization before a member first approached me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been sixteen days since I’d run out of my house in Mingora, shouting good-bye on my way to school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year we were both in tears as we said a heartbreaking farewell, because I’d been accepted at the Jewish Lyceum, where Margot also went to school. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wait to show this to the whole school,” said Burton. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s mind-blowing enough that I can almost forget that we’re talking about staying after school for debate club. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had been selected the same year, both Twelves at the same time, and so she had known Elissa through her school years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us stay up far past my bedtime, and I can already tell my mom and dad won’t expect me to go to school again tomorrow. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I walked home from school full of importance in my green and yellow uniform. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

"And the days after, until school ended and all through the summer..." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Brook says she just wants to talk to me personally and see how I’m doing because she can’t come back to school for a few more days. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will come to see you next year when school begins,” I told her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You keep getting me in trouble,” Liyana’s friend Sylvie sighed on one of their lunchtime walks from school to the falafel stand. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the other boys had gotten so curious about what Ken and Toby had found to do after school that was better than basketball, that they were getting ready to launch an investigation. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was for moral reasons and sporting interest that she left her school and her home to compete with a man whose fame as a great, unprincipled eater had spread throughout the country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Just knowing there was light on the other side made it easier to be around all those kids who called me Medusa and talked about school dances. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Her daughter goes to your school. Judging from how Zack’s fawning over her, I think this is the ‘babe’ he was talking about at dinner the other night.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe I wore a floppy straw hat to school again. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Now the hoodlums were mounting a last-ditch effort to get us out of school before May 29. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They called Yuko’s husband and made plans to get the kids out of school early. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

People at school who groan on seeing my summer look would positively melt on seeing Mr. Ram. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t on the Marauder’s Map, is it, Harry? I thought there were only seven passages in and out of school?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I recognize one guy from school but don’t know his name. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She tore a book from the suitcase, hurled it at him — “Here/” — and dashed into school. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I probably would still be going to school. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had broken a school record without a day of practice? A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Bennie counts back my change and tells me, “I saw your friend today.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I kind of like the idea of having a place in school where I can be honest about feeling bad.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I had doubts now about my being able to enter school that fall. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school was able to provide substitutes for their classes, but not everyone’s. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, you might remember last year coming to school and finding all the homecoming posters had been replaced by ones that didn’t take themselves quite so seriously.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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

Next came two white women, school teachers, who said that Bigger was “a dull boy, but thoroughly sane.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We’d had the same classes all through elementary school, and we always sat next to each other. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then she skips up the school steps, her braids bouncing as she and Keisha chatter-giggle, crossing left into the elementary school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking ballroom dancing now, to get ready for high school mixers and formal and semiformal evenings.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked slowly after I crossed the bridge, partly because I was tired and partly because of the dread of school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same week my mother told me about the rice bowl and my future husband, I saw a shocking film at Sunday school. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kevin, I’d thought, was headed to medical school, but then he swerved, deciding to put off schooling and instead pursue a sideline interest in becoming a sports mascot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When Mom asked me how everyone at school liked the cupcakes, I said, “They were great.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

For you, that means leaving school and doing the same.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"My lord will find my tongue well schooled. When I was a girl I learned when to use it, and when not." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"And another thing. We can't have everybody talking at once. Well have to have 'Hands up' like at school." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And when Dad banned me from all school sports teams as punishment, it wasn’t for plunging the whole town into darkness for three days. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The first goes away the moment you walk out of the school grounds and the second is forgotten as soon as the ship enters port. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day at school, Mr. Chang starts science class with a chapter on insects. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Truthfully,” Sally said, “I don’t much care which side of this issue I’m on, as long as I get to skip school and get new clothes. Mother bought me this.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

One square has 1 for the first day of school. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

If his plan was to distract me from being the talk of the school, he succeeded. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

During the week, the church would act as a school that taught women who wanted a domestic job the skills they needed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She did not imagine a police arrest for not paying her school fees, but what did happen if you did not pay your school fees in America?’ Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Behind the school a high board fence separated girlside from boyside, and the back of the play yard was bounded by a slough of standing water in which tall tules and even cattails grew. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for calling. I’ve got to get to school now. See you later.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard not to stare at his involuntary movements, but Joseph smiled at the boy, and the boy adjusted the tie of his school uniform and smiled right back. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In all directions, loud partying brigades from public and private high schools, from Lost Cove U., are gathered around kegs, bonfires, picnic tables, drum circles, car hoods. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Marcus, what are you going on about? The closest school is in DC. Are we supposed to move?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Practically every family member stopped into Abuela’s on their way home from work or school or wherever. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He followed her down the steps, across the gravel driveway, to the back stoop of the elementary school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And the odd rumour will go round sometimes about what Hailsham’s become these days—a hotel, a school, a ruin. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had worried that my mom was too educated for my dad when they wed, and of course, she had attended school for just a few years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could never get my parents to care about my life at school. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was nearly lunchtime and as Harry had only had one bit of treacle toffee since dawn, he was keen to go back to school to eat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of his senior year at Permian he had had an accident in the school parking lot when he drove his motorcycle while drunk and skidded. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had so many questions for Martin, like How can you get to go back to school? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They all gathered around me and asked me where I lived and about school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hate always being the tallest girl in school. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last time we’d gone this long without seeing each other, well, at least during the school year, Monday had that crazy flu and ended up passing it to the rest of her family. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I, for one, was glad for the Christmas break and that we wouldn’t return to school until after the New Year had begun. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We were sitting in the grass on the rise at the edge of the school playground. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I have been going to school now for six years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Across the South as a whole, a mere 1 percent of black school children were attending school with whites in 1964—a full decade after Brown was decided. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s the fault of those terrible middle school teachers and their homework,” I say. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

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

At school, Twig’s always crawling around under desks, pretending to be a secret agent spy or something weird like that, but when her mother’s around, Twig turns into one of those embarrassed sitcom-type twelve-year-olds. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By the way, what kind of school project is it? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

How long would the kids be out of school? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I felt like some kind of bad dog that had pooped all over the carpet, eaten the slippers, and attacked the mailman, and was now being sent to obedience school. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hopefully,” said Judy, “the schools will open again, and they’ll decide to give this whole integration thing a rest for a year or two.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many reasons for the inclusion of diversity in education, not the least of which is a mandated curriculum in many school districts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Imagine that we had met any one of these four fresh out of law school, sitting in the elegant waiting room at Mudge Rose next to a blue-eyed Nordic type from the “right” background. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was so intelligent that she not only learned to talk but soon passed all her school exams. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since he’s leading the conference in all categories, no one seems to mind that he was acting bonkers for most of the school year. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took two years of Spanish in high school and can say only a handful of phrases, but I recognize that word. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

Charles and Emma remained involved and loving parents—to the boys in person on school holidays and through the mail the rest of the year. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bless your heart. Okay, boys. Let’s do this. The last time we ever go school shopping together, thank the sweet Lord.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns—as well as her own family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Why doesn’t he want me to go to school?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I settle onto the couch with the chocolate pudding I saved from Friday’s school lunch. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

If these dang Indians had been this organized when I went to school here, maybe I would have had more reasons to stay. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Servants to press my school uniforms and a cook to make any snack I want. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

About why Papa was always mad at him, or why he didn’t try harder in school. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, except that one of the teachers at school called the police when he saw our shotgun in the back of our truck when my dad was picking me up after school.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My mom is a teacher in an experimental school and my dad’s an inventor. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I run down to get them, the text messages are flying all around the school and throughout town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Their parents were professionals; these children went to private schools. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But, tell the truth, she’d been too busy directing the school’s Christmas play to worry much about him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Dad, are you serious? The apartment is closer to school than our house was. Is. Whatever.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bus pulled up to the curb outside school and Charlie told me how. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s bless the food. We can’t be late for Sunday school.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Every day, we left school for lunch but came back for last-period baseball practice. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was the youngest boy the school had ever taken. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“A bigger school,” I said, and explained her offer. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve always wanted to ride on a school bus,” said Brad. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you heard anything back from any schools?” she asks, her eyes focused on the road. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t like anyone at this school, because all the boys here are plain dumb-acting and behave like they have no home training. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They continued to snowball, treestump and otherwise torment her on the way to and from school. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

But before I got to eat my breakfast, I saw what looked like about a hundred police officers, park rangers, and school staff, all gathered around the front gates to the school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Cullens” — I kept my eyes on the shoes — “to be out of school a lot?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We were wondering if you would be interested in signing a petition to change the school’s mascot to something less violent but still formidable?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

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

Another time I emptied a fire extinguisher into the school piano, because I knew we were going to have a performance at assembly the next day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What if they had come to get us because they didn't like Mother going to their school? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I remember the first time I walked home from school. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But I am a stupid girl, so midnight finds me leading Katherine out the rarely used side door to the summer kitchen behind the school. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As we jogged around near the school, the cheerleaders were coming out. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He’s decided to go to theology school in Amsterdam. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He headed into the school without looking at me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I know English, I can read, and I have money,” I say as I walk down the front steps of the school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just from listening to what the other children at school say, I know that not many mothers like Miss Joe. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I spiked the ball in the end zone and did my TD dance, which I was never allowed to do in school. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the other kids walking into the music school with their instruments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We could’ve worked on it some more and made a bunch of copies in the library and sold it around the school.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Or where to find a pair of old-fashioned shoes for the school play. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana gives me a ride to school the next morning because I accidentally miss the bus. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you know I don’t go to school anymore?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin might not have gone to school for too long, but he knew a great deal about nature. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to school, she took the headphones off and gave them back to him. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The school performances are technically dress rehearsals, but everyone misses class to watch them. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I watched Janice head away from the car to talk to some people loitering outside the school building. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them launched into small talk about the crowd and Christmas and the weather and school—and their words felt like tiny droplets of rain, like the drizzle that says, Watch out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Later, she and her parents moved into nearby Huntington, where she went to high school. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He’d read all the books at the school, but every week a new stack of unread magazines, books, and newspapers appeared in the library as though they were waiting for him. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

But Liz had been the only colored girl in a whole school full of white kids. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It covers a lot of her body, not like how some girls dress at school. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I go to boarding school back east,” he says. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

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 nodded, gathered my books, and walked out of the school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The wall was my bad grades in school. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At school she plays with the other girls in her class. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There couldn’t have been more than twenty—of the hundreds of kids who had flooded through the halls of the old school—twenty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even get out of the school yard before Byron and Buphead caught up to me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We never were as poor as the two of you, but we weren’t rich either. She came to this school. It’s a school for young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After school one day I saw George from our class hanging out on the street selling drugs. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam and I are walking from the bus stop to school. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As hard as I tried not to care, I couldn't start my morning without knowing what the governor, his National Guard, and the school board were up to. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go to the Pet Hut on Friday after school. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"If I let you skip school this afternoon and go for a little walk, will you cut out the crazy stuff? Will you go back to school tomorrow like a good girl?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

On the appointed morning, the entire school, including staff members both black and white, gathered in the dining hall, which was where we held school assemblies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes things aren't as simple as they teach you in school." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, he was selling used clothes with a friend in the market to make money while not in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“How far did you get in school?” the judge asked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to that school. Only aliens go there.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Covering the school with our handiwork takes planning, since we don’t want anybody catching us at it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

We stay until school ends for the summer and the daylight lasts past bedtime and wet heat descends over the streets like a steaming blanket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t fitting in at school because we were consistently one of the token minority kids. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“When somebody had my car all afternoon? Whether or not she was in school today is already past,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike interrupted us then — he was planning an epic battle of the blizzard in the parking lot after school and wanted us to join. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m not skipping. My school has the day off.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The new headmaster, Mr. O’Halloran, says he’s sorry, I’ve missed over two months of school and I have to be put back in fifth class. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The city of Baltimore didn’t give its kids the California Achievement Test just at the end of every school year, in June. 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

Often, I went to the movies either with my father or with some of my school friends. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We said we didn’t want to learn the code, that we didn’t want to learn anything until school started in the fall. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was confusing, I know, how I’d gone from wanting a new friend in this school to suddenly wishing I could hit undo on the whole thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anise begins talking loudly about me, the smelly sinner, and in class often asks Missus Wilhelmina if I should even be allowed to go to this school. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I finished talking, Professor Steinberg eyed me for a moment, then said, “Tell me about your education. Where did you attend school?” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To explain that a bit, you have to know that Auggie Pullman is this kid at our school who was born with very severe facial issues. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We pull into the school parking lot and immediately notice that there are several police cars in front of the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

This warlike name was faintly familiar, with its whiff of school and adult certainty, but the twins found their courage in each other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be the best—the fastest runner in the school—and now / am. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“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

How many chances do you get to show that the guy who runs the entire city school system is an even bigger dipstick than you are? Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

My heart stops beating every time I hear someone mention where they are going to school, or how excited they are because they have just been accepted to their first choice in universities. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

In school I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After I wash all of the dried dog slobber off my hands, I switch my dog-walking backpack for my school backpack in my room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After school, I called Monday’s number five times and the automatic lady told me once again that I was wrong. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He imagined himself wearing it as he walked to school. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He could hardly remember what the school looked like. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A school picture of Joon when he was seven hangs above his desk. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even want to go to school, anyway. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

No, she was not looking forward to school at all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the school lot the man took the road that led away from the town. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The bell rings before I can ask Lorena to go downtown with me after school. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Go get your bags and return here in thirty minutes. My secretary will give you some letters addressed to several friends of the school. One of them will do something for you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was big on that, wanting me to think about things, and do good in school, and read books and stuff. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He’d only admitted to showing up at the elementary school with unicorns. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After school, they crunched through the snow to the post office on campus. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

All we have at Bailey’s Wharf is a crossroads near school where there’s a post office and the firehouse, a gas station that sells bait, a video store, and the 7-Eleven. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, Gilly’s a fine name,” said Mr. Evans, which confirmed to Gilly that at school, too, she was fated to be surrounded by fools. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I went to that school through the seventh grade. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why do you always have to go straight home after school? The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grew up very much apart from the jocks who dominated the schools, the towns, his world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both live on Tower Hill Road on the edge of the campus, and we both spent our nursery school and kindergarten days at the university lab school. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bellevue High is a rich school, a rich city, and the kids there win everything, every football game, every track meet, every academic scholarship. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In school there were announcements about everything in the world. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Every student here today was handpicked for both academic and political excellence. You will represent all the teachers and students of our school when we celebrate the Communist Party Birthday on July first....” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white stockings are new though, and even itchier than the brown ones I wear to school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the speaker at the front of the room crackled, and Finn heard the school secretary say, “Pardon the interruption—bus thirty-two has just arrived. Teachers, please admit the late students to class.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But on Thursday afternoon, in that narrow window between school and rehearsal, I finally see her stepping out of the bathroom near the atrium. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“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

“Guess who’s dropping out of school and moving in with their parents.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He wanted to go to work, but Abuelita would not hear of him missing school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

But, she thought, if she married Daniel, perhaps Naka could send her to school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he says, leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees, “I think you’d like chess. I could show you how to play after school. You know, if you’d like.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could only imagine what she’d be feeling the day before next school year—freshman year of college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I attended meetings where black youths sought ways to get hold of submachine guns and grenades with which to storm white kindergartens and schools and shopping malls in the name of liberation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Marlee is one of the school counselors, and the Reflection Room is where you go to think about what you did. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Hey, you had blue hair, right? On the first day of school?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At the time Mr. Kapasi had been teaching English in a grammar school, and he bartered his skills as an interpreter to pay the increasingly exorbitant medical bills. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The legionnaires haul us up the cliffs and through the school. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I used to walk past it every day on my way home from school.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When Craig and I got our report cards at school, our parents celebrated by ordering in a pizza from Italian Fiesta, our favorite place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Instead I pictured Sunday school, which I attended each week and which I hated. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just like she knew school was not the same. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Every school day includes a pie-eating contest!” calls out one of the eighth grade boys. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

“It was obvious to anyone who went to that school that that was the case.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"But what does this school think, sending children like you alone to a foreign country?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph, whose weekend had been so long and so lonely, felt such a surge of joy and relief at the sound of school buses that he skittered back to Room 5 in a forgiving mood. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was so eager to hear how the interview went that he was not only home when I got back from school, he was even sober. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday night I skipped the school dance and stayed home to read more of the novel. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mamita would feel utterly out of place in a school auditorium. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school it was poems I liked best—Wordsworth and Keats and Shelley. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She knocked off a master’s degree in mathematics from Atlanta University, and then taught school in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee before coming to Langley in 1943, where she was hired as a P-l mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s only a half day at school, which I’m hoping my mom doesn’t know so she won’t wonder why I’m late. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to be glad, he thought, when school started again. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not too sure that desegregating schools is going to fix the Negro’s problem.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’s actually really good, but there’s this twelfth-grade guy who’s been the main pianist since he was a freshman, and he’s not about to get booted by a middle school girl in his senior year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got to school on time every day, got my stories read to me every night, and the three of us waited and hoped and prayed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Prior to that, Daddy had taught at Industrial High School, which later became A. H. Parker High School—the first high school in Birmingham built specifically for black students. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Casting a last nervous glance around the school yard, I hoisted myself through the window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

So Bull ordered the city’s school buses brought to the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But some of the other girls roll their skirts up even shorter as soon as they arrive at school and let them down again before they go home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I was little and I first went to school, my main teacher was called Julie, because Siobhan hadn’t started working at the school then. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Cofield began spending his days at Hopkins, digging through the medical school’s archives, taking notes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The one thing the superintendent knew about me was the school I went to. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But on Sunday night, while Richie was at the bar, Eleanor told her mom that she might go over to a friend's house after school the next day. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

And then Joseph told Albert about making the fire in his toy chest, and burning the Persian rug, and being sent away to boarding school, and how he’d been fascinated by fire ever since. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My favorite day of school was Proclamation Day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Freeman touched up the dark roots on the head of a lady school board member and asked if Principal Principal needed help. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

My school didn't have a track team, not that I would've tried out for it if it did. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Sincerely, Maria Jon and Susan carried the letter idea to all the schools they visited, and when the week was over, six hundred were in the mail. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Making the varsity crew hinged first of all on paying for another year of school. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I ran into him before school. You do something?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“My entire class is in Cabo for our school’s senior trip.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Others strolled in, the English jocks at the school. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I applied for a job at school and was told there were none available but was also given the address of the New York State employment service. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So I don’t say anything else until I wheel the cart into the aisle with school supplies. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It got to a point where Brad was getting stoned or drunk before school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In my old school, teachers used to make them. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But letters from school—the kind that are written on real paper and sent in a real envelope, with a stamp and everything—those are even worse. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

With school out, there was so much extra time and nothing to do, with only Conrad and Grandma around. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He played soccer, a cool sport at my school, and had wavy brown hair that almost touched his shoulders. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It had been the school’s first, but this was its one hundred and sixty-third Winter Session, and the forces reassembled for it scattered the easygoing summer spirit like so many fallen leaves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I hadn’t spoken since our fight just before the last day of school, but she was still my best friend. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They came off before my school uniform, before I had a snack, before I switched on the television. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

Everyone was trying to fit in at the new school, including me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On my way to language arts, I passed the school newspaper office, which gave me a new idea. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Even within states, different public school districts have different rules about how many days you can miss.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This was made clear when I signed up for art classes in high school. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

April and Melanie just looked at each other and nodded, and on the way to school they started telling Elizabeth all about the Egypt Game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuff like that isn’t supposed to happen at rich schools. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The girls’ soccer team has its first home scrimmage after school today so the team got to wear their jerseys. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Secretly, I wasn’t sure that I could stand school with neither Caroline nor Call there with me, but, of course, I didn’t mention this to my parents. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My name is Alex Morales. I don’t know if you remember, but I was in school with Chris. St. Vincent de Paul Academy?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She has made a bargain with her school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, four things happened to make me stay in school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost add Arthur won’t be there either, but Arthur not being around for school or anything is a bigger problem eating away at me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Us, Latinos, the neighborhood, who else? We want you to join the program, quit that job of yours at the supermarket and concentrate on school.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One day that winter, I went to a classmate’s house to work on a school project. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There was a time they didn’t even let black people go to school.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If your school has no problem hurting its own student body over and over again, they’ll never learn.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lots of other white men at other schools did the same. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to be so confused that at a school all about social justice, there was still a lot of racism and sexism—and actually all kinds of-isms. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

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

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 had a sudden picture of schools in every one of the forty-eight states grinding out millions and millions of sheets of paper covered with leaning letters exactly alike. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m used to seeing Mrs. Walton at school in her suits and heels. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They knew in their hearts they were still going to State, and they also knew that when they got to school on Monday no one would think of them as losers. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In secondary school, some of us changed in our friends’ houses so our parents wouldn't know.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget the student council meeting after school. Link wants everybody to be there.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Next Friday is their last day of school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Mrs. Popper was still away at her meeting, and Janie and Bill had not yet come home from school, there was a loud ring at the front door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Dale isn’t just the leader of Friendship Club; she’s the guidance counselor for the whole school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now a number of reporters were following the story of Fazlullah’s attempt to shut down the girls’ schools of Pakistan, including a man from the New York Times. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the rest of you, I guess, are new to the school, right? Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

Almost every afternoon now, Joyce got off the school bus on Silberhorn, down by the river, rather than at her home in Happy Valley. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was also waiting for him every day after school when he left, taking them both straight to the hospital to see his mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Last year, Lily told me that since I was in middle school, I should be reading “real” books. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Our school is not big enough to teach their children, too; only our own. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We’re out of school. The weather’s gorgeous, and we get to hang outside going on rides all day.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Maleeka. You know what Juju will do to me if I get kicked out of school.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Due to my aforementioned laziness I was no good at school, except at English, because of the reading. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My Sunday school dress was torn in three places, and Peach’s white shirt and blue suit pants were brown, heavy and sticky with mud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hampden graduates never seemed to do anything after they got out of school but start little ceramics shops in Nantucket or join ashrams in Nepal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The minute I found out about that camera, I realized it looks clear across the park...all the way to the school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

So I played along, jumping off the last two steps and running into the kitchen dressed in my school uniform and new sneakers, greeted by the table laid out with my feast. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"There are some in the school who try to get her off balance. Some are in our homeroom." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sister kept me late in school, fixing things for Lent. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Vinny and Patrick were actually friends last year in middle school. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Much smaller. You won’t get lost there. It’s a small Jesuit Catholic school.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Still, it takes me a minute of standing by the school doors before I finally muster the courage to go in. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

During the first silent year I spoke to no one at school, did not ask before going to the lavatory, and flunked kindergarten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In Nashville, school shopping for Lydia and Dill. I told you.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then, like usual, he turned the radio up and headed toward my school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was already school drama circling the two of us, and now this, the picture of us together, he said, was just too much. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

So it was like this that I entered school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In lower school, Savanna and Ellie and me and Maya and Summer: we were all friends. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been going to royalty school three years now; something had to rub off.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The school secretaries told me to walk through the front office into the guidance area. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

For me, school only stopped being eight hours of daily stomach surgery when I realized everyone wanted me to sketch them more than they wanted to talk to me or bash my face in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Like I said before, she seem like a new-laid egg, but at school, all the boys say they done her. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"But learning things at school isn't going to take away your independence—it's going to add to it." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He promised he would not let anyone harass me on the school bus, which I appreciated until he showed me a knife he had hidden in his backpack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

The rest of us must go to school, repeating the last grade, left unfinished. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What time does school start here?” he asked, not turning around. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a whole week left before school starts, after all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t no one dare fight this close to the school so me and Cooter ran over to see what the commotion was. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“The paper chain project is over. This is a school. We can’t sacrifice our gym indefinitely because a few people are disappointed.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Got myself chucked from that posh art school you don’t go to.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

While Mama filled out the money order and figured out how to pay some of the other bills, Ty'ree made grocery lists and school supply lists and added and re-added the cost of everything. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Keep them. You still have to walk back through the school and—” His eyes drop to my ripped dress, my bare skin, and he jerks them up again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Ever since she arrived, Hannah rode a blue bike to school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He stayed silent as they came upon their school. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

On Wednesday, May 23, a few days before the end of the school year, Miss Scalapino took me by surprise. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It sounds boring,” she shouted from up ahead as we biked to her house after school. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Time to get moving. My alarm never went off. You already missed the bus. I’m driving you and your brother to school.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Kids at school started expecting him to be clever and funny all the time, and even for a kid as smart as Nick, that was asking a lot. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What everybody does. Went to school, high school, college, worked in the summers.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"They had a school in jail. I had a nice teacher called Bedi Ma'am." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Weeks after, it happened: One day in school I raised my hand to volunteer an answer. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told Dr. Johnson, “I guess we sent him back to school too early.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Matant Jo’s money back in Haiti, my mother was able to send me to one of the very best English-speaking schools. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

You’d make me change diapers all the time and I’d complain, but secretly I wouldn’t mind, because I’d know you were busy with school and homework and rehearsals and your daughter. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to the voter drive at the Negro high school.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I don’t want to stay here, he says I have to apply to at least one school in the state, just in case. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Osh didn’t say, “I told you so,” but he seemed quite pleased when I came home from school so soon after leaving. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“If only Leper had enlisted in the Army Air Force and been assigned to Parachute Riggers’ school...” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the very last Friday before the very last week of school. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

One thing’s for sure: If none of this had happened, I’d be out there crabbing every day, baiting my pots in the morning and pulling them in after school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I passed out at Cade’s house and we missed school the next morning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Matty, just a boy when he first came here to live with the blind man, had attended school full-time for a while, and still went for added learning on winter afternoons. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

No one had seen the child since school let out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

District Court, Judge Roth had devised a clever way to desegregate the schools. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I would hate to be out of school longer than that, because school is one of the only things that I love doing. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He considered going back to school, with the company’s support, to study engineering. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“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

“That way he can help him at work and both can attend school.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Student organizations would hear about it and talk to school officials about bringing the exhibit to campus. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “next week you have a game against the minister of education’s school. You must win that game. It’s very important to me.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew puffed white steam, “you guys run on to school. See you tonight, Tony.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I seem to remember telling you both that I would have to expel you if you broke any more school rules,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

The school lunch line ran the entire cafeteria wall. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The new law placed a limit on the number of Jews allowed to attend elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So, after reading selections from Negro schools all over North Carolina, we are pleased to announce that one of the winning contestants is from Riverside School!”’ Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

At school, she sometimes brings me a little present. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He was aware of it—everybody in town was—but up until the sixth grade Permian was off-limits to him because the school system was segregated. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us rode the bus together in the mornings and back home at the end of the day, but at school we were scattered between houses, mostly on our own. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We followed the crowd into the school, hanging back so nobody would spot us. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It might have been because school was starting the next day, but this felt different somehow than in years past. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Two letters from Dante in one day on my bed when I got home from school. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Were raising money for our group. We do volunteer art projects for elementary kids ’cause they’re cutting art from the schools, you know? The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need to major in it. Teach it, maybe, but you don’t need class to study life. Besides, I was thinking of art school.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When the school comes into view, I leap to my feet, smashing my head into the roof of the SUV. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Instead, she got her MBA from a not-so-stressful program at a state school, which I viewed as kind of a lazy move. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Without so much as turning his head, Javier said, “I’m glad I don’t go to your school, then,” which made Moss think, That’s too bad. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She and Dad both made a show of signing the permission slip, but I’m not really sure it ever made its way to school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to be like my friends who could go to school and not have to worry about being harassed over their religion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

One night, as I was practising my oration, Uncle Piet came by and gave me a small transistor radio as a present for doing well in school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not allowed to do anything after school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All his life he’d had moments of feeling like an outsider—in his family because he loved school so much, at school because his family had so little money. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

One day in early September shortly after Vivian had arrived, Branwell and I were on our way to the campus bookstore to get our school supplies, and we stopped on the bridge and looked down. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are the kind of girls who have boyfriends in high school, and the kind of girls who don’t. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Freed, the school secretary, looked up and smiled. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tension flowed between all of them, and so their walk to school was not as cheery or social as it could have been. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

Directly in front of them, dressed in white jersies and forming a little protective phalanx, were the Pepettes, a select group of senior girls who made up the school spirit squad. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I just put the pad and pencil in my pocket and started walking fast as hell up to her school--I was too excited to write the note right in the stationery store. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Now that I was wearing hijab to school every day since I’d officially hit puberty, and I was in seventh grade, my life had gotten complicated. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There had always been staff to clean up after meals, both at school and at his parents’ homes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I adored my school uniform and never wanted to take it off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Two threats of school suspension, because I was the instigator of the PE locker room fights, according to the So-Called Gym Teacher. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a specialized teacher who went around to all the schools in that area. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were going to kill yourself here at school?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At school I continued to ask about jobs and was directed to another address. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get a special phone call at school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she left and went to another school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Tracy—Mom—had a most awkward talk with me about the subject near the end of last baseball season, during our school's spring break. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I also missed Mama and Papa, my room, my school, everything I’d left behind. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, like now, he felt like an intruder in his new circle, of people who believed that the latest schools, the latest curriculums, would ensure the wholeness of their children. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Today is the last day of school,” he announced as he stood upon a makeshift podium. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Arable gave him a feeding around noontime each day, when Fern was away in school. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Our schools are right next to each other, the Government School for Boys and the Government School for Girls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t much for school besides that, she admitted. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I know so many of them because we all went to middle school together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He first noticed Rahel in the school library and then again, a few days later in Khan Market. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might feel that way now, but it isn't like that forever. Wait until you see what the world has to offer besides this small town and your high school. People are different out there.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

“And Madoc killed our parents, so that sucks. And then there are the jerks at school that you don’t like to talk about.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kit kept her word to Mr. Kimberley and threw herself so diligently into the school work that the children were bewildered. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A little boy who had been told he wasn't good enough to go to school was now "Dr. Leyson." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Two other people? Emily, it happened to you. Not to him. He doesn’t have to walk around knowing that half the school has seen—” “But I don’t mind,” Em said quickly. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bridge was early to school, where kids were lined up against the fence in a chilly wind, waiting for the main doors to open. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

This was my first morning at the military school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She barely listened when I tried to tell her what happened, just shook her head and said she couldn’t believe I got put out of school. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The following morning, before he left for school, he told his mother that a scythe had invited him to become his apprentice and that he’d be dropping out of school to accept the position. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The first hint of it was Mr. Morton going around the schools teaching Christmas carols, but the first sure sign was the store windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Lempert is saying is that by the only measure that a law school really ought to care about—how well its graduates do in the real world—minority students aren’t less qualified. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was a copy of the school’s dress code. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the way to school a few years ago, Dad had an unusual freak-out moment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Now he can visit schools and teach kids about wildlife preservation. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The story of the miracle school that transforms losers into winners is, of course, all too familiar. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her poster about the forbidden word had quietly disappeared from the bulletin board, and kids were not staying after school writing sentences anymore. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vacation on a school day . . . teacher workdays were the best. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I ask when she get home from school on Thursday. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I’ll look after your mama. She’d want you in school,” Grandma said as she fixed me a big plate of fried eggs. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

But I thought going back to school would be different, but it’s not. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That very first day of school I remember seeing August in the cafeteria. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I had to do something about school, that eventually there would be the phone call that would reveal how many weeks I hadn’t attended, and I would be in trouble all over again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I texted her and said I was staying after school to do some additional ACT prep. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Why are you here? In this school? In the club?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even if it was your idea to go to Catholic school, I know you’ll change your mind. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday morning his house became a school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

For a while I went to school every day, but soon I began missing days again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kennedy is in the school district’s mini tractor, plowing the parking lot to admit an endless stream of cars. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“There were also several times I thought about sassing adults back, mostly teachers and principals at school. And I didn’t trust God on two occasions.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The school pays for it. We have a budget, which is really rare. And Mr. Partridge is great. You shouldn’t believe what people say about him.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But when Beatrice Ziaty found out her son was sneaking off to play soccer with strangers after school, she became angry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To help Minnijean remain in school—to be a better friend to her. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides vacation and presents and everything, it was as if she had three Christmas trees because she helped with three—their own, the school tree, and the Chrises’ tree. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had lots of questions for Dr. Fiona; it was like being back in biology class at school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Can I change? We came straight from school.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

That was the only way for any of us to get to school: on our feet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now only summer separated me from going to school every morning with them. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

“We have to write the script, invite people to be on the video, interview and film them, edit the videos, and prepare for the school event. Hmmm, how about the beginning of November?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

I was the guy at school who couldn’t get a date. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For probably the hundredth time in less than a week I had to remind myself that working at this school served a purpose besides a paycheck. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

Confession was a regular part of my grammar school years. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to have college training. Like a doctor, almost. Takes a lot of money to go to veterinary school.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shaker Heights was officially a city; there were nine elementary schools and a new redbrick senior high had just been completed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Celia was from the Dominican Republic and the finest chick in the school. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny returned to school at the end of the first week in April, apparently too soon, for he was back in bed two days later with bronchitis. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Sir Grummore sent a gross of spears, with the old school crest on all of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that Mom had called Miranda’s mother the night before to ask if she could drive me home from school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I am done with instructions about fuel, and trading, and staying in school, I turn to my mother and grip her arm, hard. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Wanda had a great voice and sang in the school choir. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At school, the diversity project is moving along. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once, he remembered guiltily, he tried to use it to cheat in school. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I always addressed the tough times many Americans were facing, as well as the inequities within our schools and our health-care system. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That’s why I wanted to come to school in the first place. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Stories about her had filtered down to Izzy even in middle school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day after her fight with James was the first time in the weeks since starting Booker that Emily felt lost in the big school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Katie had held Francie back wishing both children to enter school together so that they could protect each other against the older children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated that I had to go to school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dante had repeatedly told school officials about his father's abuse, but no one ever intervened. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“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

In the schools, periodic brawls broke out between white and black students, and I spent parts of my high school years with police and police dogs stationed in the corridors to keep the races apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Junior considered the playground his own, and the schoolchildren coveted his freedom to sleep late, go home for lunch, and dominate the playground after school. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left home in the mornings and simply didn’t go to school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t admit it, not even to Melanie, but she was having nightmares about the first, day of school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1935, as Henry Metelmann, now thirteen, sat in school, he listened to his teacher rant about the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But either she really believed I was having deep emotional reactions to questions like, “Should our school have uniforms?” or she was just giving me enough rope to hang myself. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

You think if you drop out of school somebody’s gonna beg you to go back? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This will be the first time two completely different sets of philosophies have united to work for this goal of better schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did his hair tickle, but I was embarrassed, even though he went to school thirty years ago and does have some kind of medical degree. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

“Hold on. I need this pageant for the scholarship money. So I can go to medical school.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When the parent of one of the few black students at a white school complained that his child was marginalized, C.P. heard a white working-class student point out that he also felt marginalized. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I paid cash, but I needed spending money, so I got a work-study job at the school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Whatever the merits of the suggestion, unification of the schools was unlikely to happen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not often do such things as use our entire school day cleaning the classrooms and washing the windows of the building. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went online the following week and ordered a taxi to pick me up at the curb when school was over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I’d heard about them in Sunday school, through Jesus and such. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a big school of dolphin, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would persevere and make a name for ourselves, and I would go to school, an English school where Jews were able to learn right beside gentiles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I want this pretty person It was biology, they said at school. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were going to your school and I wanted to see it! You never take me anywhere with you!” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to know about how well I was doing in school and all my accomplishments. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She watched from the window as they trudged along the long sidewalk back into the main school building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But perhaps we should give the whole thing away right off, as you said. To a hospital. Or an orphanage. Or a school.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I know I kinda just took charge yesterday, but I was thinking that since I don’t go to your school, that might be a good thing.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’m quiet too, thinking about school tomorrow and how I’m going to quit flute. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When I went away to school my mother said, “Give the concierge oranges.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of all those stories I had to read for school and the questions the teachers always asked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the school after practice, he found a letter Scotch-taped to the door of his locker. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So sending him off to middle school like a lamb to the slaughter . . . ,” Dad answered angrily, but he didn’t even finish his sentence because he saw me in the mirror looking up. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell her about how he waited for you outside school every day.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

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

I thought Mom would try to get me to drop my aversion to having my picture taken for school, but she didn’t. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All the other kids at school got brands, Nike and Adidas. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He'd grown up on a farm in Kentucky and ended up in Washington, D.C., after finishing law school. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some guy started swinging a stick that came from one of the art classes at school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I reach home in the late afternoon, with my red plastic purse and my Sunday school paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I smoothed Dinah’s crepe wool hair and placed her on the bed, then shoved my hand through my Devil’s Shoestrings bracelet and got up to get ready for school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We had to do The Hobbit at school.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The chemistry teachers used it for storage and as a break room, equipped with a coffeepot, a microwave, and enough microwave popcorn to feed the entire school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Despite her protests, Gilly stayed home from school Tuesday and Wednesday to nurse the three of them, and Thanksgiving Day found her exhausted from going up and down stairs and from bedside to bedside. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then he’d staple them together and drop them off at random places throughout school. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You can do a news interview saying we’re not such bad people and that everything is getting better at school. That way everybody in the world won’t think we’re all villains.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an undeniable fact: The Colonel would have no chance at a scholarship to a good school if he got expelled from the Creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Her locker had been neatly stacked with textbooks when Lacey opened it, I remembered, as if she intended to come to school the next day. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You can’t keep cutting school if you want to get decent grades,” I say. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My uncle said it was one of the best schools in the city. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“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

Dressed in her tan gabardine teaching suit with black blouse, she was off to school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With little more than a week left in the six-week grading period, school principal C. C. Russeau transferred Gary Edwards out of the course to one with another teacher. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I helped write it. I’m Moony — that was my friends’ nickname for me at school.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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 walks him into school and gives him a kiss on the cheek and rubs his back. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

As we went outside to the walkway in the back of the school, I could hear the roar of the crowd in front of the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day at school, I’m not really focused. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“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

“I can go to culinary school. Maybe in Paris. Felix could support us all.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been friends since middle school, and they know by now that when it comes to plans, my CF gets the final say. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Back in school with people watching or poking at her, Biddy would have thrown some kind of fit, or get her feelings hurt and run off crying. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If Corey comes back to school we will try to be his friends. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

In August, city officials announced that schools would not open in the fall. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One box is filled with photos from school. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later we celebrated Valentine’s Day at school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There is no place more hollow, more soulless, than a school at night. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"And vot", shouted The Grand High Witch, "is happening next in every school?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“A friendly but fierce competition against all the other middle schools in our district.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that this man, dressed like a white man, was a Navajo made us look around the school yard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the first in his family to go to school, and when he learned about Henrietta as a postdoctoral fellow in Gey’s lab, he felt immediately connected to her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was also during this time that we were given school supplies—books, pens, and pencils—and told that we would have classes from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on weekdays. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The three of them would probably be happily imagining what deadly dangerous task the school champions would be facing on Tuesday. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She considered going to the state teachers’ school to take the required courses, even went to the administration building to register. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it she carried our birth certificates, immunization records, and school papers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

This is why I like this new school. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

See, that’s the thing with private schools: they can kick you out for any reason. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was becoming too “rich” for the kids from the neighborhood and too “poor” for the kids at school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He is aware that his parents, and their friends, and the children of their friends, and all his own friends from high school, will never call him anything but Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They should print in the paper that she would work with anybody to make the needed changes in the Durham schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were going to a movie today after school,” he said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Our morning music jam with our brother was like our own little dance party before school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Early in my senior year at Whitney Young, I went for an obligatory first appointment with the school college counselor to whom I’d been assigned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Those daydreams helped me escape from the boredom of boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child, Turner had once tried to persuade himself that preventing his mother’s sudden death by avoiding the pavement cracks outside his school playground was a nonsense. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She may not have liked the books she’d had to read for school, but she’d loved the stories her mom had read aloud to her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My dad makes me go to those meetings—where they plan what to do to get you’all kicked out of school.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has ever talked to her about college except the school guidance counselor who halfheartedly recommended nursing school when she got an A last semester in bio. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were going to school during the day, but she wouldn’t get home from work until well after dark. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They had always played in the same gang when they were kids, but in the last three years he had been at Vocational while she was still in grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Christine dutifully submitted to civil defense drills at school, ducking and covering under her desk, practicing the maneuver that adults said would protect her and her classmates from that telltale flash “brighter than the sun.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A week before, he’d help lay the pipe for a new Parade Oil bleed-off line that ran straight across the school grounds. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A neighbor dropped me off after school to wait for Grandma to come home from work, so my birthday celebration could begin. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Only boys are allowed to go to school here. I always wanted to go” “You want to go?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, most of that had been during the school year, but still... not cool. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

With Mr. Baca’s help, she found a spot for us outside the school, near one of the cafeteria exits. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Which is what? Picking up garbage for white people? Delivery boy? Is that what you’ve endured eight years in school for? Is that what I’ve sacrificed so much for?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t met many other girls like me, who didn’t go to school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she got her permission to go to law school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“He’s just a boy I go to school with. He’s okay now.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been their idea to move schools, and I wanted them to think things were going well. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Our school mascot is a rocket, and right about now I’m wishing I could shoot off into space instead of waiting for Mr. Tobin. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

If I had money, I could dress nice, like the kids I go to school with. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If Tad wanted to hang around—Frankie shook his head as he made his way to the front of the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But he has dropped out of school. two blocks from the camp. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Just before noon Julie and her classmates put on their parkas and mittens and skipped out the school door in awesome silence. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared at first, because by then I’d learned in school about how slaves were sometimes dumped off of slave ships before they could even make it to the island. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Many Osage students at Mollie’s school tried to flee, but lawmen chased after them on horseback and bound them with ropes, hauling them back. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If you were to ask me how I performed in school the day after my round-robin bus rides, I would have to say that there was not much difference between my vegetative state and Nikki’s. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our school we didn’t even have a school bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, I did not receive any graduation celebration invitations from my old school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m locking the door behind me to leave for school, Miss Fulton is coming out of her apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She studied the other kids at school like an anthropologist, trying desperately to fit in. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“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

“Going to school?” she asked, whistling curiously as she spoke. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We think the transition to middle school is hard enough without having to place greater burdens or hardships on these young, impressionable minds. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s on the far side of the middle school’s football fields, just before the train tracks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A group from the Dance Theatre of Harlem was spending six weeks at her school, working with talented young people. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the downpour and pictured all the da-zi-bao in the school yard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed that going to middle school would be life- changing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I mean, Mom is spending her days at the clinic cracking backs, and Dad is meeting with other teachers and professors to ready a makeshift school, beginning with the younger kids. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

But it came as no surprise when, hardly three years after I had begun school, the novelty of learning began to fade. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Aron’s first day in school he waited eagerly for the recess. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll probably be through junior high school, almost, before I earn enough to pay Doc Murphy’s bill. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt so dumb that I hadn’t known his place in the hierarchy of this stupid school, I felt dumb that I’d never asked him what he did in his free time. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he returned to the States, schools all over the country tried to hire him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The Mess is a giant characterless cafeteria, like you’d find in a public high school or a prison. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

And after school, especially on a Friday, everybody popped in to make sure plans hadn’t been made without them knowing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But Monday in school, Brad kept saying the same thing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know who’s sub-human, man? You. You are. Going to school every day. And back home on the bus. And do your homework.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When John Mark picks me up from school on Friday, he seems to be in a really good mood. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

So Danny and I resumed our old habits of meeting in front of my synagogue, of riding to school together, eating lunch together, and going home together. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The school itself consisted of a cluster of two dozen or so graceful, colonial- style buildings, which included individual homes as well as dormitories, the library, and various instructional halls. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys got into a lot more trouble in school. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Later, in graduate school at Indiana University, it was my hope that the gene might be solved without my learning any chemistry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On some level, I think, he’d decided that if he couldn’t go to a school like Chicago, then perhaps he ought not go at all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, in middle school, back when I played soccer, I was stretching with three other girls, and a boy walked by with his friend. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to criticize you in your moment of great weakness, but you’ve allowed us to be outflanked, and now there’s nothing between the terrorists and the school.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As Moss ascended the front steps to the school, he glanced at the grease, grime, and years-old gum lining the concrete and railings. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be handing out these debate tournament entry forms today after school, and I want you to seriously think about it. The fees will be covered. All you’d need to bring is yourself.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She was usually still in bed when I left for school, so I didn’t get to appreciate her outfit until she got home from work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

While their parents were at work, the kids were at school, learning the rules of the new culture, and sometimes using this new knowledge against their parents. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I changed into my costume in the same room where I attended Sunday school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Non-Mormon as well as Mormon kids are given time in their school schedules—the kids call it going to “seminary”—to visit nearby Mormon churches daily. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fleeting vision, which had been a celebration for her when she came home from school, passed through Meme’s heart without a quiver. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In eight years Permian had gone from being a virtually all-white school to one where the proportion of minorities in the student body was about 30 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

—We should not be terrified when, occasionally, we saw white people about the school, for they would not eat us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah is very quiet, which I like, and she smiled at me on the first day of school. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Elijah Karriem removed his own children from Detroit public schools, to start a nucleus of children in the University of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a crack between the boards I watched him pick up his book bag and head off in his earnest, square-shouldered Anatole way down the road toward the school. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen Carl for a while, but he came that morning to pick me up in the ambulance because it was the last day of school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I even rewrote some of the lyrics to the song so it would be okay for school,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I axed Syl, “So you learnt how to do ciphering in that school?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

There didn’t seem to be any more purpose for them than there had been for the fight at school earlier in the day. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

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

The legionnaires manning Blackcliff’s gates seem not to see us as we pass out of the school, and I wonder if Cain has used Augur sorcery on them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know whether to run to the trailer, to sit here on the curb, or to go to school and find Toby first thing. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The authorities came and said, “You must send a boy to school. Choose.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to go speak to the board about it, and to some of the parents, to see if it was allowable for an Oriental to represent the high school in such a visible way. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nuah. He goes to my school, a junior, new here. By the way, thanks for sending Farooq over. I was swamped at the table. Maybe girls started coming because of him.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Olanna knew the tranquil flatness of the yard would change soon, when the children came back from school. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was good at baseball, and she was better at soccer than most of the kids in the whole school, boys or girls. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he bought her a new car as a surprise, she told him her old car was perfectly fine, the Peugeot $05 she had been driving since he was in secondary school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to go to school if you don’t want, sweetie.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I need to work on some projects for school. But I’ve got some free time. Do you need help with orders?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later I walked out of the school, ran the three blocks to the bus stop, hopped on the M86 to Central Park West, and took the subway home. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age,” he’d said, “I was already working two jobs. And here you are, complaining about waking up for school!” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A couple of days before the official school closing, my father was going to Peshawar to meet two video journalists from the New York Times, and I went with him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Banging his knee against the golden lard bucket he used for school lunch, he contrived a good bass drum, while his tongue fluttered sharply against his teeth to fill in snare drums and occasional trumpets. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why send a daughter to school?” the men often say. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At that precise instant there was a vibration in the air and we were struck by a school of flying fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Honestly, Percy. Don’t you guys have dances at your school?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I could have gone to kindergarten, but when I went for one week, I cried and screamed so much that my parents thought maybe I shouldn’t start school until first grade. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bread crumbs from the morning are always on the table when we come home from school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“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

“Lily,” Father said, “it’s time to leave for school. Would you walk beside me this morning and keep an eye on the newchild’s basket? We want to be certain he doesn’t wiggle himself loose.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I won’t go to school for the next two days, but Mama says I can meet you at 3pm on Fri. at Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“As I said in the beginning,” Dr. Jansen interjected, “the school has a very strict anti-bullying policy.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The afternoon his mother returned to the corner to guide students across the street, Mr. Munch found Canton in the bathroom after school, sitting on the nasty tile floor in the corner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m screaming loud enough to make the whole school crumble. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m heading uptown from Harlem to get to school, and this is not what I want to see first thing in the morning. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I’m about to say yes, let’s go to Everybody’s Favorite Diner and get egg sandwiches and then walk to school together and all this can be over. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Why would the only Dominican kid in the whole school be the one to draw a racist symbol? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And whenever she saw Palmer with them at school, she acted as if she did not know him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Besides me, eight people at this school have already listened to the tapes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

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

We heard that almost two hundred hard-core segregationist students protested our presence by being absent from school on the day of that rally. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Madam Rosmerta, can he come into the Three Broomsticks while I go up to the school and get help for him?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In junior high school, I became good pals with the truancy officer in the area. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stop at the top of the school steps and put the case down to rest. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Both of you look as though you’ve had Stretching Jinxes put on you. I swear Ron’s grown four inches since I last bought him school robes. Are you hungry, Harry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“See, that’s one of the things that sucks about being a new kid at school. You don’t have any friends to fill you in on all the dirt.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In chapter 9 you will read about boarding schools created by the US government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The young man was abroad on a medical school scholarship, although he had no intention of becoming a doctor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Deer hunting was popular in our area because shooting and dressing a deer provided a lot of winter food for a family, so we had school off for the first day of hunting season. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

I wanted to say something to her as she walked toward the side door of the school. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They happen to teach English in schools all over the world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I promise. You’re the best. Can you come over right after school tomorrow?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I liked the Courters’ large house, my school, and my friends. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The guns were on their way to the drop-off point, the mission disguised as a school ride for us kids. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing to do now is to meet Tats on the roof after school. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was he who pinned the notice on the school notice-board on match days announcing the team. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I said, I never saw him again after we got back from the school. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Luke Teague, I swear to god, if you don’t apologize, I’ll call that school and get you yanked off that wrestling team quicker than you can spit.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I reached the red borderline that marked the edge of the school grounds, I glanced around to make sure no one was watching me, then stepped across the line. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The art teachers signed on first, followed by the social studies teachers, so now paper links are under construction all day, not just before and after school and at lunch. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I think of all the times since I came to this school when a teacher has scoffed at me or a student has glared. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

People had heard of it, especially the three village teenagers who studied English in school and often dropped by to discuss life in what they called, "Ny." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The kind of day on which we draped our coats over our heads, left our galoshes in school, and came down with croup the following day. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article was inspiring and many teachers throughout the country responded by inviting us to speak at their schools. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She must be exhausted, working at the school from the early morning and then coming here when she's finished. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He knew he was sensitive about this stuff, but it sounded like she was trying to blame the students for the lack of schools at the college fair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

June suggested maybe you’d gone through an agency near your school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was pleased by the familiarity of the arrangement: me, pressed into the corner, away from the other children, a precise reproduction of every Sunday school lesson from my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the director of an elementary school in Jableh, and also spoke English. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"How was your school today?" she says, ignoring my correction. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I listen to the message a dozen times before I call the school nurse and tell her I’m having a really bad day and I’m on my way to an emergency appointment with my shrink. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

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

I remember hearing the air brakes, and someone yelling “Mr. Hoodhood,” and the “Oh” that came out of my sister when I hit her just ahead of the sliding school bus. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They passed an elementary school one day as it was letting out, and Citra had a sinking feeling that she would glean one of the students. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since it wasn’t a school day, he wouldn’t have to worry about people making fun of him washing in the bathroom first. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After school the next day, Nora and I get off the bus, drop our backpacks off in our apartments, and then meet outside Mae’s door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Fun times, made even more fun by the thousands of bug bites and peeling sunburns I always showed up with on the first day of school. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“How about cousins? Or maybe a close friend from school?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

So I called my sister at high school. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t figure on what happened Monday at school. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have a good day at school. I have to work late tonight so I won’t be home for dinner, but I’ll see you later.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Sunday evening air seemed unusually still as the baby blue school bus rolled. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was a troublesome boy as well and always got into fights in school and at the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sprawled out flat in the aisle on the sanctuary floor, I still held the Sunday school reports in my hands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it would be easier to go back to school if you quit your jobs,” Georgie said. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The practice actually saved the school money by decreasing the garbage-disposal expenses. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As Port-au-Prince and other cities were rebuilt, new housing, schools, and health projects were initiated. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The schools were all identical, because the same construction code was copied and pasted into a different location whenever a new school was needed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The school is made of this phony stone, and the mortar joints are deep and wide, and it took him all of about fifteen seconds to get to the second floor. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Trying to help remedy the imbalance, I pushed for us to consider law students coming from other state schools and from historically black colleges like Howard University. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I start to think about what’s going to happen to Russell if he pretends to be from outer space once school starts. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least, this is what the last day of school is supposed to encompass. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The day before the start of the Passover school vacation period, he told me that his father had asked him once again why I wasn’t coming over to their house anymore. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Alex opened his eyes, hoping to see their school out the window. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then everyone waits for the judges from each of the participating schools to decide the winners. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s time he went to the mountain school to learn his proper role. He’s not taking after me.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst thing that happened was we had twice as many Latin verbs to study at school when we went back. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He and Arletta made some healthy treats together that could be sold along with braided key chains and bracelets in school colors. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

When they got to school, Sherm said, “So, tomorrow morning, same comer?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I would find a house, get the girls comfortable and adjusted in their new schools, find a job, rejoin my church, and begin where I had left off back in 1971. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She knew I yearned to fit in with my classmates and on the school softball team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Only, instead of picking the smartest guy in school, Zach had zeroed in on somebody who didn’t even seem to know what a PA system was. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“How will being on the winning team change your life at school?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He built brick houses for his workers, hired a teacher for the school, and raised the standard of living of everyone on his lands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting into business with a girl who drank in school, but did I have any choice? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

“If Mom was a kid at our school, I think she’d have to go see the guidance counselor,” I say. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Since we had both been to mission school, he would tell me stories about his own school days. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Monday morning, toward the end of what would have been my fourth week away from school, she followed me secretly to find out where I was actually going. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we throw our cups away, my brain starts worrying about what’s going to happen at school tomorrow. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“If I can raise enough funds, I might hire you to build new desks for the whole school.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought that he would at least give us a tour of the school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember how to get home from school tomorrow, right? To the new place?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And now the kids in the village are saying, “I’ll go to school to buy cows for my mom, like Lekuton did.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks he needs to get into anger management and get into school to put his quick mind to good use. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Now come on, get out or you’ll be late on top of everything. Look, even the school buses are leaving!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

Most did not attend high school at all. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She stopped checking her mail and rarely left the house except to work her shifts driving a school bus for disabled children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I like tap dancing. I don’t want to change dance schools.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told my mom this when I got home from school, and she smiled. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I am really sick, today and I'm just going to stay in bed, so I'm sorry I'll miss seeing yon today at school. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dad took all of us kids to the museum the week before school started. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We were going at last and I took a last longing look as the bus shot around the highway which circled the school. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from BYU law school, he worked in several county attorney’s offices in the state, spent a year as the Logan city prosecutor, and in 1997, he joined the Cache County office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From grammar school to graduate school I could always name my reader. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She had a baby, started staying out of school, started coming home late. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she had offered the challenge, all he could think about was learning in school how shark teeth angled inward so fish could swim in but not out. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And schools across the country were banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing, white makeup, Goth music, computer gaming shirts and symbols. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, today was just another first day of school in another new city, so I did what I always did when I showed up at a new school: I didn’t look at people. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mom drives David to school so he can hand in some giant science project on a trifold display. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, there weren’t even any black kids at our school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Part of me was excited for the first day of school. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dad’s crossing the bridge by the old abandoned gristmill, turning at the boarded-up school, and for the first time I can feel Shiloh’s body begin to shake. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor made a mental note that when she returned home and won Miss Teen Dream, she’d start a charm school for clueless college boys. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Hardly any of the other kids will eat it, because if you eat anything other than a dry, crumbly bagel for lunch at this school you are basically announcing yourself as a freak. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s smaller than my old school, and the kids aren’t so bad.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

With eveiyone speaking Spanish, it almost felt like we were in a boarding school back home. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“When school’s over, then can we? I like living here with Grampa.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

As a pigtailed child, Joella had once ditched school to compete in, and win, a horse race against legendary Arapahoe riders. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let me see—you have done fine in the sale, David. Eighteen boxes sold. Fine. Fine. Not only are you an excellent scholar but you possess school spirit.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, Jessica followed me home in her old white Mercury so that I could ditch my books and truck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

According to his biographer, John Maynard Keynes, He was rather a Judaic Monotheist of the school of Maimonides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say much in school, and I never raised my hand. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Eight blocks to travel between home and school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“So is that why everyone calls you ‘the Nazi’ at school?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He wanted with all his heart to play high school football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even lets me borrow some from his personal collection and gives me a list of schools he thinks I should apply to, which is why he’s my favorite teacher. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get bullied out of school in Rochester for wearing a voluminous denim skirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Why’d you have your hair dyed blue on the first day of school?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Because of her status at school and her friendliness, she had no lack of them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me and Bobby Gene doing all right in school. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Several months before Orson graduated from high school, his father died. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It would be very nice if we could make a decision irrespective of football,” said school board member Lee Buice, “but that may be where the gauntlet is thrown.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one thing for poorly schooled nonwhite students to claim that they were minorities. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we emerged from the school with Maureen, we began to moult immediately. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school Kirk worked part-time at Birmingham’s Greyhound bus station. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school she handed out report cards to the other kids, but when it came to me she took me to the principal’s office. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to cheer for other schools? Fine! Go there! Don’t come to my school. Get outta my school!” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But by the time we got to middle school, Ma had the newest car on the block—a minivan with leather seats. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“My father gave it to me when I graduated from high school.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walk to school Erin says, “Russ, you interested in playing basketball?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would park the car several blocks away from school, behind the county fairgrounds, and walk to class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I was assigned to a tailor shop, and the work was manageable, but it seemed as if my former life—school, friends, time to play and read—belonged to another world entirely. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

E-mails from school are always bad, but they try to hide it with big words that are hard to understand. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, will it make it awkward when we have to spend an hour and a half after school today filming? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“She’s always complaining about all the stuck-up kids she has to go to school with.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“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

All the other uglies were gone, off on some unscheduled school trip. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t routinely taught in medical schools, and many American researchers —including Southam —claimed not to know it existed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In history, Sally was still retelling the story, though everyone at school must have heard it about a hundred times by now. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss my old school and my friends there. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even the pleated skirt and tailored blouse of my school uniform always felt awkward to me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t Abnegation, I’m sure the girls at school would stare at him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The farm was located up in the hills, away from the river, about a half hour’s walk from Shin’s former school and the house where he had lived with his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Ashish said, and immediately, Dimple could see them as elementary school kids, having a very similar fight about whose turn it was to pick the cartoon they were going to watch. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And she doesn’t come, not even when the school bell rings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Along with two friends, he headed about ten miles away to Geauga Seminary, a school of 250 students run by the Free Will Baptist religious denomination. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if “une très jolie demoiselle of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like many civil rights lawyers, I was inspired to attend law school by the civil rights victories of the 1950s and 1960s. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This part wasn’t a lie: that Via was checking out her new school today. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But I swore I wouldn’t grow up to be like him. I ended up having friends of every color at school, and I knew that none of the stuff my dad said was true.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what that means except that it’s probably why, now that our American school has officially closed, Sam and Mundín and I go over to the Mancinis’ house for our lessons. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Of course he knows. We had to ask him if he minds the Azkaban guards stationing themselves around the entrances to the school grounds. He wasn’t happy about it, but he agreed.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I hated thinking about Jackie getting on that bus to Raleigh, going back to her happy life, painting her fingernails with Carol Lee, dating Scooter the paintball champion, maybe even going to beauty school. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Phoebe arrived at school with another message, which she had found on her porch that morning: We never know the worth of water until the well is dry. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My parents were also poor, but at least I was still in school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At a girls’ school you didn’t have to be so vigilant about keeping your knees together or your skirt tugged down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was tiny, crowded on one side by a school district van and on the other by the chain-link fence that wrapped around the entire property. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Cole thought about his own troubles with the law and about all his troubles at school. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But school and learning were just as sacred to Mother. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I have tried all means to get money for school fees by doing the following every day after school: I cleaned cars of people and got a few coins which I saved. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted desperately to go back to school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sports anchorman went through the professional baseball and football stuff, then the college football scores, and then the high school scores. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about you? What do you want to do? After high school, I mean.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Two weeks before Christmas Malachy and I come home from school in a heavy rain and when we push in the door we find the kitchen empty. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We executed Plan Number One an hour and a half later, when Stephen headed off to school. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They said he had married and when the children came, had decided that there was more money in being a school engineer than in being a schoolteacher. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of leaving us alone like any normal dad, he’s always asking us dumb questions about music, school, and boys. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The next day the sun shone, and Coraline’s mother took her into the nearest large town to buy clothes for school. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Just when he reached the cistern, a wild commotion of barking burst from under the floor of the school. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have told him that he’s being taken to school,” my mother said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school when I walk into Miss Saunders’s classroom, she’s got her feet on the desk and her head shoved all up in a book. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Looking at the proportion of women in graduate school at a large university, some women filed a lawsuit claiming that they were being discriminated against by the graduate school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the school parking lot. When we get back tomorrow. There’s always a crowd waiting for the returning hero. Remember the film at school? My vision?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“No, just...you know, some people from school.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Katherine paid a cab to take her to the house of the principal of the Marion school, where she had arranged to rent a room. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Roger lives right near the school, and on Tuesday the four of us walk to his house together. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The two weeks would be a welcome relief from trudging back and forth to school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear the rest of the school moving into the stadium beyond. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I came back to school from my own little “three-week vacation” when Ms. Gruwell asked me, “Why have you been absent so much?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Johnny Villani made the announcement: The schools were open, but the buses weren’t running. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“With her bike. The one she always rode to school.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She’d finally swung by my house after school to see if I was there. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

But Warren had been different—he just had a talent for it; his coach had said he might make a Division I school, if he trained hard enough. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I played football in high school but couldn’t get into a college. You know the only thing I’m good at?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When school was over I didn’t even go to my locker to get my stuff. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Star could have one year in that beautiful new high school," he says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We knew of each other from school, but we didn’t know each other. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Even I could walk from one end of my old elementary school to the other in four minutes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Every school day, before Jack put on his navy blue uniform and walked to his public school, his mother insisted he eat a big breakfast. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A great football, track, and baseball star, Sam Ransom, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eighth, and a track star, Binga Dismond, left his medical school studies to enlist. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had left my keys at school and waited two and a half hours at Belle’s Market on Amsterdam Avenue for Mom to get home from work. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The troops were still in place around the school, and every morning the crowd of segregationists grew larger. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean anything by it. I’m just wondering why you’d practice writing essays when you said you didn’t think we’d ever get to go back to school.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t get out of school, but there was one thing she absolutely could not face this morning. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But then one day in fifth grade, we had a new kid come to our school. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Cole imagined the cold, the rain, carrying water, keeping a fire going, doing school- work, and long, long hours of being alone and bored. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“And you found a verse in his journal that led you to an ancient Bible in the school’s library.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In 1943, she and the school’s music teacher, Altona Johns, put students through their paces in preparation for the year’s Christmas cantata, “The Light Still Shines.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and apparently I need a school uniform.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

They’d never pulled him out of school before, not in the middle of the day, not even when she was hospitalized last Easter. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then and only then would she strap the skates together, sling them over her shoulder, and march off to join the skaters at school. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mine was too short at the wrists 'cause Mama had bought it the year before for me to wear on special occasions like school assembly and church. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

At the end of the school day, Miss Scalapino gave me a note to take home to my parents. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Ophie tried to get a moment alone with her great-aunt there the cousins were, telling a funny story about school, or asking to help with dinner, or just being a general nuisance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

One girl from a working-class family—Katie Brindle — sang in a choir after school. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They were pretty heavy school stuff—Latin, algebra, things like that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took your school pictures off the wall. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Carmen and her pal Tony were heading back from school, making their way through the noisy streets of their neighborhood, Boston’s North End. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Willibey explained that when a new kid comes to school, their Backpack Buddy shows them around and tells them the rules till they get settled. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“And the next day at school, she wasn’t there.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Everybody on this comer is smart. You ain’t no smarter than anybody here. If you so smart, why you got to come on this comer every summer? ’Cause you flunkin’ school! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you have a lot of hard classes, one after the other, getting out of school at the end of the day is like getting out of a torture chamber or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Soon it would be time to go to school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“La migra swept through the camp about an hour ago, and I didn’t know if the immigration officers searched your school too.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to school today,” I announce as I walk into the kitchen. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two more weeks of school visits, and several hundred more letters were sent to Mr. Lon Herbert. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She should thank her mother for leaving; without the money she sends for books and uniforms, Belky could not even attend school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“But this year we can start over. The school wants me to take you down to the doctor and get you fixed up.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We just went after school. It’s probably until seven or eight. Your mother knows my grandmother?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t come home from school the next day and he’s still gone at bedtime. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Because even though I already calculated that I have enough food left to feed Henrietta until after school starts, now I have that invisible chicken too. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

We never kept in touch over the school year. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Just a fluffy m/m retelling of the school concert scene. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Training classes...on top of school? Will that affect my normal extracurricular activities?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next time I saw Peggy, she asked me to walk her home after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I know all about how the Americans run their country because we have to study it at school. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

September through May, I went to public school in the morning and to heder, Jewish school, in the afternoon. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I am sure Dumbledore would have wanted the school to remain open,” said Professor Sprout. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

“Our final destination all along. It’s mostly safe and peaceful, with work opportunities and good schools.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The problem is, every high school looks pretty much like every other high school. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

If there’s one thing Momma hates, it’s me and Hana getting in trouble at school. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Around three, when I figured Augustus would be home from school, I went into the backyard and called him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve texted Dawn to tell her I’m not in school, but the date is still on. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My best friend in high school was a Jew. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Let me guess, I was too good-lookin’ and needed an extra bump on my nose, a reminder that only English Jones runs the school? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everything about it was different from grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Malia was already signed up to sing in a middle school choral concert. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ekman was then a young psychologist just out of graduate school, and he was interested in studying faces. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And whereas most other historically black schools were scattered like forts in the great wilderness of the old Confederacy, Howard was in Washington, D.C.— Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, we’d spray paint on the handball wall, or on a park bench. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Seven’s gonna bring you to the clinic after school, then you and I will go to the station. Are you absolutely sure you’re up for it?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Outside of group functions, they rarely talked to each other at school. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The person who rules this school looks exactly like Mr. Brady. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Marshall was eager and happy when they picked him up at nursery school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Recitation was a huge part of the lessons at her school. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

When the priest had built his first school, it had only a thatched roof, and classes that couldn’t fit inside were held under a mango tree. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That was until Will Thompson’s grandfather, who was a member of the school’s board of trustees as well as an esteemed donor, got wind of the article. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Does Mr. Elliot think that he can ask students to be here over an hour before school starts every day?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Except that after school as I waited for my mom, this girl, Ileana, came up to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

Daddy often warned my older brothers, “Samuel and Chester, you protect our ‘girl-child’ and walk to school together.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was already at Clarkeburv, a boarding school about sixty miles distant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I actually tried playing basketball in middle school. Loved it. Still do.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He makes you learn everything by heart, everything, and that makes him the hardest master in the school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was, after all, the lady of the estate, and it fell to her to pay for one of the better combat schools for her charges, should she be so inclined. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A glimpse of a shining yellow shell of a school bus coming down a dirt road. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A few had escaped from the schools, and the stories they told were anything but heartwarming. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But he has decided he doesn’t want to go to school anymore. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I am trying to wake up, to go to school, but I can’t. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When it had come to it, when they had seen what he was facing, most of the school had been on his side as well as Cedric’s.... Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I first started school, my father was always saying to my mother, “Why do you want him to go to school? We want him here. We should take him out.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and I were fooling around in the pool, near a big bronze plaque marked with events for which the school kept records—50 yards, 100 yards, 220 yards. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the long way around school to avoid seeing any teachers or staff who are now starting to head home. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then, out of nowhere, Fazlullah agreed to lift the ban on elementary school for girls. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As he dropped him off in front of the school, Mr. Eberhardt asked, “Think your friend will be at the ceremony today—Beatrice’s stepbrother?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was talking with Daisy Ramirez, who’d played the role of my Best and Most Fearless Friend since elementary school, but I couldn’t follow their conversation over the noise of all the others. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not mine, but try telling that to the brothers at school. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had assumed that the Pacific, but for passing schools of fish, was a sparsely inhabited waste of water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor and TeeTee basically begged Becca to host it at her place, which I guess made sense because it was right across the street from the school. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

No one at school knows what I’m about to tell you. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The third was the worst: Because of the McCoy ordeal and the school board looking to avoid any further mishaps, I wasn’t allowed out of the car without wrist restraints. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“When we need to, we use the high school’s gymnasium.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cut school to stand in line for killer concert tickets. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wish they had, I wish they had—it would have been far better than burning it at the school. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s old news,” I mutter as I begin to launch into a summary of what had happened to Annie, how I’d hacked into the school’s directory. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three of us from my high school got into this program for pregnant teens. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bridge’s just a footbridge that connects the far end of the school playing field to a country lane that goes down to Upton-on-Severn. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then there is Isolde von Linden, at school in Switzerland, who doesn’t know yet that her father has just shot himself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I was getting better at understanding school customs, but this one didn’t make much sense to me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Parents and guardians received a recorded message from the school saying that there was an emergency and that they must come get their children. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Something I’m reading for school,” I say, my face getting hot. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Where he first went to a real school and learned to read and write and speak his new home language. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Parents are at the school doors demanding to get their kids. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can stay until your school opens,” he went on. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of kids didn’t stay in school. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was ten minutes early at the corner where he met the guys every school day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

You get to continue on to high school, and then you're assigned to a college. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

So as soon as her mother entered the kitchen that morning, Hazel asked: “Mom? Will you drive me to school today?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I look up art schools in the area, narrow it down to three, and tilt the screen back to Jamie. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I kind of got into a fight at school.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be acknowledged for my writing talent outside school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In school we were told that East Prussia was one of the most beautiful regions, but it had proven treacherous for those of us fleeing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been in trouble at school before, but most of the time, that just meant a whack on the bottom from one of the nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

I stayed after school ‘to help’—to get my teacher’s undivided attention. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People at school were being...weird. Talking about me, whispering. Passing notes, even.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Last night, my mom tried to get me to drop out of school and go to work full time.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He had not only read medicine for six months under a doctor over in Athens, he’d gone two whole years to medical school up North. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If you’d had a head start at home, you were rewarded for it at school, deemed “bright” or “gifted,” which in turn only compounded your confidence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Your dad didn’t graduate from high school. And I quit high school to marry him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He took out our school pictures, the big ones with frames. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He became so engaged in the work that he asked the federal judge he was clerking for after law school if he could cut short his two-year clerkship to join us in Alabama. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was easy enough to lose myself in all the school things. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the school taught rudimentary literacy and numeracy, drilled children in camp rules, and constantly reminded them of their iniquitous blood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Canton smiled, knowing a school bus is many things. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I want the scholarship money for medical school.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Even our school uniforms, which we had to buy each year, were secondhand, and often thin or torn in spots. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I know who you are, Mr. Potter, but even you must understand that it’s against school covenant for parents or professors to enter a House quarters without express permission from . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Then I went into the bedroom and asked Mom and Dad if they were driving me to school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The day before, Izzy had startled, but not surprised, her family by being suspended from school. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I scrambled to my feet, I looked back to see the brigade of attacking mothers within striking distance, shouting about how they weren’t going to have me in school with their kids. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that, she stands up and turns to the lady who’s still waiting on the cushy sofa for our head of school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

My dad would pick me up from school in his gold Chevrolet. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

“I believe the school was created for that very purpose,” said Mr. Benedict. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks—then two weeks until time for school. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dev told her stories about his childhood, when he would come home from school and drink mango juice served to him on a tray, and then play cricket by a lake, dressed all in white. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“My school chum, Charlie,” I answered the question in his voice, then tucked the letters in my lunch basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She’ll have it when she picks me up from school today, though?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Now I don’t like school, which you might say is one of the factors that got us involved with this old guy we nicknamed the Pigman. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was late and I had to go to school the next day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mommy enrolled her in two more schools, but she quit both, declaring, “The white man’s education is not for me.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought she cared enough to consider sending me to art school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“And what’d you expect? I had to make other friends. All you do is hole up making your lame drawings and obsessing about that stupid school with Mom.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that they were both three years older than Ji-yong and all three of them attended different schools, the three boys were close friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older school of historians and philosophers took this framework for granted, while a newer school has wanted to debunk or deconstruct the concepts rather than explain their significance and trace their origin. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Izzy, however, knew nothing of this until she arrived at Mia’s after school, let herself in through the unlocked side door as usual, and came upstairs to see Bebe crumpled at the kitchen table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had a home and food and school. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Alarm Clock Mom, I overslept, can you drive me to school, please? Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“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

My lack of sleep did not merit my staying home from school. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s only to meet this headmistress, anyway. It’s not to go to the school.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I sign onto Facebook, and over on Violet’s page someone from school has posted about her being a hero for saving me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Matthew and Mark stayed out of school to help Dad bring the crops in, the three of them working some days from dawn until midnight. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse slowly removed the checkered blouse of her school uniform, followed by a spotless white undershirt she wore to keep her blouse from getting stained with sweat. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Now, listen—I’m sending a patrolman in to drive this bus back to school. I don’t want to hear a peep out of any of you in the meantime.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“They think this place was too dead last year. They think if they plant some nutcase in with the students—” “Like they plant narcs in schools!” someone else shouted. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Mary stood close to the mound, with Atal nearby for reassurance; but she sensed all their eyes on her and felt as if she were a new girl at school. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It became hard for me to get through a school day without someone after me to join this or head up that—the debating society, the Junior High basketball team, or some other extracurricular activity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had just begun lessons at school when his dad had dropped out of sight and become a prisoner of the rats who probably hated music. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning when my dad dropped me off at school, he left me with the same piece of advice. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“How did you hear of this place? Do your friends at school go there?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Tuffett gripped the edge of his desk and said between clenched teeth, “For that bit of impudence you may remain one hour after school, young lady!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I want to know why he’s letting me teach in the school now, for instance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he insisted she quit school and get a job to pay her share of the expenses? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was a relief to be back at school. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tears still stained my cheeks from when I’d run home from school, sobbing, because someone had pushed me down at recess and I’d scraped holes in my favorite jeans. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were news vans set up like permanent trailer parks—surrounding the strip mine, outside the school, and along US Route 30. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

When I got out of my truck at school, I saw why I’d had so little trouble. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She took down the school phone book and looked through the listings for both of last year's third-grade classes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Corcoran has asked me to write to Bunny’s friends at school and extend an invitation to spend the night before the funeral at his house. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I brought it so you could wear it to school,” Papa said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’d wanted to go to school, to college ...” “I know,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simpsons Reps are sucky kids who appear in high school yearbooks wearing blazers with crests on the pockets, looking clean-cut, and advertising Simpsons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those who had once been the Bronchos’ biggest supporters, who had gone to school at Odessa High and played in Fly Field, fled to the suburbanlike security of Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I push, I realize she’s intimidated by the thought of just walking through the school’s imposing gate, past its security guard, through its neatly manicured gardens. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are finished in this school, young lady!" she shouted. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have one as well: they were handed out at school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Oh, Christ, Q. Am I not nice to you? Do I not order my various and sundry minions to be kind to you at school?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jutta sends letters that the school censor blacks out almost completely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some people hate him because they think he’s weird and he gets into fights and gets kicked out of school and does what he wants. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fannie managed to earn enough to feed her children and send them to school, but she never made enough money to escape poverty. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

We learned the same things in school that children learn all over the world—reading, writing, arithmetic. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just something about Via’s school that has nothing to do with you,” said Mom. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Depending on public transporation meant she was late for everything—for work, for open school nights, for picking us up whenever she had to. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never walk home with me after school. You’re never there for me at school.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I put on my headphones but keep the music off as I join the crowds headed out of school. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were conferences with her mother and the principal, conferences with the principal and the school psychologist, and conferences with her mother and every one of her teachers. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded Rowan of the way they treated him in school. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He was the only kid allowed to wear a hat in school. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I hug him and kiss him and spin him so his back is to the school’s entrance. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“But I do like being outside in the darkness. At least I did before tonight. Seems like stuff that’s hard for me at school is easier at night. Does that make sense?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The natural next stop is the fields, which are behind the school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I told myself I'd misread the signs completely when I got back from school, and my gut knot unworried itself a bit looser. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I'm yanked out of a dream-filled sleep—first of my mother walking me to grade school, then of Eden's bleeding irises and the red number under our porch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Myers is one of only two men who teach in the whole middle school. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

We turned the corner and pulled around the side of the school, stopping just short of the main driveway. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I think being disgraced in school is a great deal tryinger than anything bad boys can do,” said Amy, shaking her head, as if her experience of life had been a deep one. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It started one day during the hour of free time, when the children in their class were playing on the front steps of the school. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wealthier neighborhoods in the hills boast good schools, low crime, and views of the bay. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dad stayed home, Mom stayed happy, and I got to go back to school on Monday. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Njemile turned the volume up once an image of their school flashed on the screen. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All right but not until school’s out not for the entire summer, and he’s got to be back before school starts again.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the way to school the next morning, Petra asked Calder about the V for Vermeer business. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This one might be coming from school. He didn’t get on with them.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Blowing leaves, and missing birds, and Byrd at his school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But once the act was passed and the schools were established, there wasn't anything they could do, even if they’d wanted to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Liz was like some of the other kids at school, calling colored folks names I wasn’t allowed to say. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not help thinking that only Shirley had to go to school, and only Shirley would be in trouble if she failed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was reading story after story about how difficult a year this was for college admissions, how selective the top schools had become, how even the brightest lads were meeting rejection. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I skipped school and am in the waiting room. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ears flared out and were very red, and though he was just out of high school he wore a size thirteen shoe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And it looked as though my school worries were over. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I was dressed I was pushed out onto the school yard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They go to school the whole year round. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I close my eyes that night, I’m back at school again, getting off the bus to see a crowd of scowling faces. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But here's what my parents actually helped me discover by driving me to theater school every week: I totally sucked at acting. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The whole middle school had read this book called Lord of the Flies, where all these kids get marooned on an island and go psycho. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan and Roamer are there, and about two hundred other kids from school. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She let me off by the mercantile so I could walk to school. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d teach us old songs in Korean, drinking songs, school songs, whatever we could learn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the last day of school, I cleaned out my locker and went to say goodbye to Miss Bivens. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I put my arms over the picture to cover it up before turning around to see Emma from school. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Only the most important social event of the school year! Not that I’ve ever been to one.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe we start school in a week. The trip flew by. It didn’t seem like a whole month.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s not a bad idea. But watermelons take three months to harvest. You and I will both be back in school by the time they’re ready.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Is that like going to a new school?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

“What school did you go to before this?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in school over a month now, and she hasn’t said two words to me. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It sure was a good thing for Jimmy that I was the only one from school who saw this. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I took the test for Hudson, a selective public school in Manhattan. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as school was out I made for the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Well, she’s the only one in school that has Willard Hughes’s name crossed out on her sneakers. Besides, the smoke is so thick in there you need a gas mask.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Back in elementary school, our field was scorched, and you had to watch out for pieces of glass that were sometimes crushed in the dirt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first time I had lived among other Japanese, or gone to school with them, and I was terrified all the time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I bet Maggie would hold hands in the hallway with Dominic if he went to our school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In later years he would brag to us that he “went to law school” and imply that he held some kind of degree from a northern university. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you guys to go into town and get Halloween costumes for all of us. Before school starts in the morning, Casey explained. I gathered up the money. “ Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All I knew was that it didn’t fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Felicia remembers how when she was in grammar school the paraphernalia of faith had proved more intriguing than its overwrought lessons. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was streaming out of the school, and there was no going back for her backpack or her jacket, because she did not need to add missing the bus to her list of crimes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The clues are mounting that this is maybe the worst day at school ever. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And Lauren was a cheerleader at our school, so she had that whole thing going on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone in Zimbabwe took this test at the end of primary school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Rose Johnson is a teacher here," she informs Dr. Williams, as if he doesn't know the school employs Shanti's other grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Something bad had happened at school and Alex, in his bad mood, hadn’t given her the chance to tell him in her own way. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Day after day in Japanese school at Tule Lake, she’d thought about whether she would really ever go to Japan and when. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Axel usually goes on Fridays after school, but with no school, this trip is even more wonderful. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The poetry class began at the same time the last bell rang at school, so I’d race over there to try and make it without being too late. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time,” he remarked one day as he walked dejectedly home from school. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

All the way to school, he’s been talking about what a great time he’s going to have now that his bossy older sister is leaving. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The whole place is singed, but you can still see the definitive structure of a school, except for straight down the center, which is entirely gone. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the battle for desegregation in Alabama schools was only heating up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Thanks," said Jelly, "but I got a girl friend lives around the corner and I promised to do her a favor tonight. She goes to cook and baker's school and I'm gonna check her homework." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months I practiced, joined the baton club at school, and even entered contests. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom’s a medical technician, but she just got her nursing degree by going to school at night. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Brand-new teacher, fresh out of education school, all smiles and enthusiasm. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

But instead of going to school, I’d head to campus, so the shuttle could take me to the airport. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was an all-boys school, which I didn’t know until after I arrived. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Unh-uh. Sam Houston, in Texas. I did basic there and then went right into medical school. I got assigned to the hospital in Devens, but it got boring. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it was the middle of the school year.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Several afternoons a week, after public elementary school let out, I fed them healthy snacks and ran around with them on the lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was given cakes and cookies and rides to school. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Not one child showed up for school the next morning. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He wants to know how our week was, how was school, did we learn anything he might not know. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to go to school after a while, but Momma said I had to. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s a private school out there that I’ll be going to,” she said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Not having a gym, or an auditorium. Two more facts apparently overlooked by your father. And what am I supposed to do? Send you to school every day in rain gear? With an umbrella?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you choose to do as parents is your matter but this is my school, and these are my students, and I will choose what punishment they will face. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

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

The families we Lost Girls were staying with didn’t encourage us to go to school anyway. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody’d care enough to question, not as long as they showed up in school. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

These numbers were astonishing to me and my staff, but the sad fact is that urban schools around the country were contending with epidemic levels of gun violence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Let’s take it old school then!” says Hype. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the break between classes during Sunday school, and I’m starving even though it’s only eleven a.m. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was like balancing a sack of gravel on my head every day at school and not being allowed to steady it with my hand. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But i don’t think it can be at school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She would teach at the primary school, her own win-the-war effort. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They had a pile of clothes they got from the elementary school, as well as a bunch of blankets and even some soft toys for the twins. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“But Mum, everybody at school’s got gray blouses and everything. Nobody’s got green gloves. I could be the only one.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I walked back to school alone and convinced myself I needed to do everything in my power to get over Evan Parker. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“They have confirmed your father’s application. He can take his leave when my school vacates,” her mother said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could remain in the school if Mama and I agreed to put me under the supervision of a city agency. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Not sad cries, or alarms like in the hallways at school. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Pixel was definitely older than the twelfth-year students at Seven’s school, but not by much. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

It was track season; she’d find her father in the back of the school with Coach Douglas. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It sounds really nice. You probably know your neighbors, huh? And you get to go to school with all the same people.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A stark warning issued by survival school instructors flashed through his mind—never wear wedding rings into combat. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t been anywhere but school and Stagecoach Pass since I moved.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They started acting like they were in school. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Trying out for field hockey or crew or whatever boarding school kids do. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The truer critique would be just the reverse: not that schools change ghetto students too much, but that while they might promote the occasional scholarship student, they change most students barely at all. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school today, Mom says, “I’ve got a ton of clothes in my trunk that I want to drop off at Goodwill. I might even find a couple of surprises there as well!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This facility provided children from my school and other tribal schools in the area with a low-cost lunch—peanut-buttered brown bread, and a mug of skimmed milk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She enjoyed the secondhand education she got from typing his graduate school papers. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to visit Hugo in a long time, because I guess I just wasn’t feeling that much like donuts, but Monday after school I decided to go. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought it took place in a boarding school.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the nurse sent another note saying Lori couldn’t attend Emerson unless she wore glasses, and the school would pay for them, so Mom gave in. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But we don’t mind having to work at it. In fact, that’s what we want; it’s what we came for. Dale’s going to stay on there and work while the children finish school.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of all the hype surrounding school desegregation, I was beginning to think seriously about where I wanted to go to college myself within the next few years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Proper English, like the school principal, and even better. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I just want to go to school, wearing my hair big like cumulous clouds without getting any special attention, without having to explain why it looks different from the day before. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gradually I lost interest in school and began hanging around on the streets. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police have been hanging around the school a lot, interviewing kids and keeping their eyes open. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When Eleanor got home after school, her mom followed her into the kids' room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Second, N says “soon our eyes will meet again,” because Neil is coming back to school at the end of the month. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I suffered at the hands of both, but I resent the schools more. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A stinging editorial in the school newspaper, the Permian Press, applauded a new rule prohibiting Pepettes from placing candy in players’ lockers every Friday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His composure, which Smith had patiently schooled into him over six months, began to unravel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wicked cold and would have cost too much to heat the school. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were pretty fancy cars, too—Mercedes and the like—and there I was, in my old, patched school uniform. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was used to fencing against boys during our school practices so I didn’t even blink. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For this boycott to work, the parents and the community would have to step in and take the place of the schools. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason holds up a bag of food, grinning at me as the smell of fries from my favorite diner a block away from our school wafts down the hallway, trying to reel me in. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The hall had become the school’s focal point. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I sought out a school conducted on a more indulgent system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it was the same way the whole feel of school can be in the sound of a bell ringing. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfect timing, because I’d be off to school in a few short months. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to a regular school now!” he told me excitedly. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had seen maps in school, but they had never interested me as this one did. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I met my wife in graduate school,” I said to Sandy Sterling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they had to crowd in beside their younger sisters and brothers at the lower school. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You think I woke up today and decided to blow up the school because I’m a Muslim? Unbelievable.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"So you don't really go to school, like not every day?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jenkins cut her off, to say: “Our school, however, has a policy not to put brothers and sisters in the same grade. Do you want to be in Sammy’s grade, Maybeth?” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day he broke the school swimming record. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re doing what the school counselor said, reducing reliance,” Dad says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than insist I eat my own apple, she started sending me to school with two apples. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I push my empty glass away and announce, “I’m going to school today.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

How many schools enforce a respect-for-all policy, and enforce it fairly? Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know what to make of this unconventional teenager any more than we had on the first day of school. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

When she arrived on campus, Elizabeth discovered that she had already mastered most of the academic curriculum offered at the school. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The police are trying to put out a fire at the Coloured school.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He was considered educated, having graduated from grammar school. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says why keep her promesa when Mama and Papa still won’t let her go to law school in the capital? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s funny and tough and not nearly as irritating as most of the girls at school. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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 decided to do some reading, and reached for a book titled A Land Remembered, which he’d checked out from school. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you see any of those wusses getting expelled? From every public school in Tangerine County?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are more people outside the school than usual. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He stayed only long enough to unload supplies, pick up Cole’s school assignments, and look at the totem. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

His mother used to be the playground lady for us when we were in elementary school, and I know she’s an incurable gossip. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Gabi came home from school that afternoon, there was a note: “I’m going for a little while. I’m going to work very hard.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They knew that Egypt was waiting for them just as they had left it because several times they had been able to stop by on their way to school. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But wait a second. I checked if anyone at school had Billy’s last name and no one did.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He put on this Riff Raff-style accent he didn’t have at school. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“No, just listen, okay? You used to be a part of Quinton’s tutoring program. But I also know that you gave up on school after he went missing. Well, I’m going to restart the program.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then there’s Josiah—the tech nerd who somehow in a place like this is one of the coolest, most popular guys in the school. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After school, I paced around my room, trying to come up with the best method to get Tina to notice me—in a good way—when I happened to glance out the window. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clean, sleeveless white undershirt and cotton pants his sister left for him after school were folded on her mat. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The distance I experienced in my first year of law school made me feel lost. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be gone for five days. We have appointments to show our birds at seven elementary schools.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She went to med school at Louisiana State University. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then her uncle got cancer, and she had to quit school her senior year to take care of him. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, Hana-chan. But you mustn’t. You just study hard. Do everything you can to help your grandparents. Do everything you can. But go on to bed now; you need to get up for school.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s an amusing children’s proof that they don’t have time for school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The same reason your ma is so adamant that you go to school.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“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

I hooked a right on red and gunned the minivan—it had better pickup than Mom’s but only just barely— toward school. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren’t bad. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The girls I had known had been hard and calculating, those who had worked at the hotel and those whom I had met at school. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way home that last day of school, Shirley heard their voices echoing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Franz's son had been due to graduate from medical school the following June. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s because she didn’t go to my elementary school. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z