18 books like Class is Not Dismissed!

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School of Fear Gitty Daneshvari · 2006 · ★ 3.8 · 305p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Everyone is afraid of something...Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces. Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. With very few options left, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to the highly elusive and exclusive School of Fear to help them overcome their… Shares: Phobias, Self-realization, Self-actualization, Interpersonal relations

Ronja rövardotter Astrid Lindgren · 1981 · ★ 4.2 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This is the Story of a robber's daughter called Ronja who grows up amidst a whole band of robbers in a old castle deep in a big forrest. Shares: Brigands and robbers, Thieves, Robbers and outlaws, Children's fiction

Cam Jansen and the ghostly mystery David A. Adler · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Cam uses her photographic memory to catch a thief disguised as a ghost. Shares: Thieves, Robbers and outlaws, Mystery, Children's fiction

Ghoul trip Peter Bently · 2010 · ★ 3.7 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Moderate While on a school field trip to the county fair, nine-year-old Lee Price and his friends from St. Orlock's Elementary School for Vampires find and help capture some robbers. Shares: Brigands and robbers, Robbers and outlaws, Schools, Children's fiction

Lock-in Jonathan Mary-Todd · 2011 · 112p · ≈ 3h · Moderate When a high school lock-in, meant to ease tensions between the lacrosse team and a group that likes to play werewolf, goes awry, Jackie does not know if she is safer in the panic of the dark hallways or with the crazed student council president determined to maintain control. Shares: Interpersonal relations, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Boy Who Owned the School Gary Paulsen · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz. Jacob, who is usually in a fog anyway, has the the job of running the fog machine. The problem is that Maria… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

The day the teacher went bananas James Howe · 1984 · ★ 4.3 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Fourth Grade Rats Jerry Spinelli · 1991 · ★ 3.8 · 90p · ≈ 3h · Moderate A fast, fun, friendship read from the Newbery-award winning author of Maniac Magee. Fourth graders are tough. They aren't afraid of spiders. They say no to their moms. They push first graders off the swings. And they never, ever cry. Suds knows that now that he's in fourth grade, he's supposed to be a rat. But whenever he tries to act like one, something goes wrong. Can Suds's friend Joey teach… Shares: Interpersonal relations, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Be more chill Ned Vizzini · 2004 · ★ 3.6 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants. Shares: Interpersonal relations, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Bloomability Sharon Creech · 1998 · ★ 4.1 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Set in the breathtaking landscape of Lugano, Switzerland, Bloomabilityis Sharon Creech at her very best.When 13-year-old Dinnie Doone is plucked out of her troubled life by her aunt and uncle and whisked away to an international school in Switzerland, her world is turned upside down. Suddenly surrounded by different cultures, languages, and beliefs, Dinnie struggles to holdon to her past life.… Shares: Self-realization, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

A Flying Birthday Cake? Louis Sachar · 1999 · ★ 3.7 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Two days after Marvin sees a glowing green thing like a flying birthday cake in the night sky, his third-grade class is joined by a mysterious new boy with peculiar behavior. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Humbug Mountain Sid Fleischman · 1978 · ★ 3.9 · 152p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A young boy and his wandering family foil villains and rout nasty varmints as they make a home for themselves in a beached boat on the banks of the Missouri. Shares: Robbers and outlaws, Children's fiction

Lorna Doone R. D. Blackmore · 1656 · ★ 3.7 · 458p · ≈ 15h · Demanding This work is called a 'romance,' because the incidents, characters, time, and scenery, are alike romantic. And in shaping this old tale, the Writer neither dares, nor desires, to claim for it the dignity or cumber it with the difficulty of an historic novel. Shares: Robbers and outlaws, Crime, Children's fiction

The Genius Thieves Leslie McFarlane · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 156p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A daring million-dollar bank robbery leads the Hardy Boys to undercover work on the secluded campus of an exclusive prep school. Shares: School Stories, Schools, Mystery, Children's fiction

The Misfits James Howe · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Kids who get called the worst names oftentimes find each other. That's how it was with us. Skeezie Tookis and Addie Carle and Joe Bunch and me. We call ourselves the Gang of Five, but there are only four of us. We do it to keep people on their toes. Make 'em wonder. Or maybe we do it because we figure that there's one more kid out there who's going to need a gang to be a part of. A misfit, like… Shares: School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

Perfect Sara Shepard · 2007 · ★ 3.9 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats,… Shares: School Stories, Crime, Schools, Mystery

The ghost on Saturday night Sid Fleischman · 1974 · ★ 5.0 · 57p · ≈ 1h · Moderate When Professor Pepper gives Opie tickets to a ghost-raising instead of a nickel in payment for being guided through the dense fog, Opie manages to make money anyway by helping to thwart a bank robbery. Shares: Robbers and outlaws, Children's fiction

Prom Laurie Halse Anderson · 2005 · ★ 3.3 · 215p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ashley Hannigan is one of the few people in her urban Philadelphia high school who doesn't care about the prom. It's pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it--especially Ash's best friend, Natalia, who's the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. Then the faculty advisor is busted for taking the prom money and Ash finds herself… Shares: Self-realization, School Stories, Schools, Children's fiction

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