Book Topics - School - Ideas for Learners

Book Topics: School

Book Recommendations by Theme are listed here in order to help teachers, book club organizers, and other readers find books organized around a common principle, or big idea. Please see the Main Page List of Themes for more categories, as well as Book Lists by Topic

Academic Challenges

After Ever After
Bright
Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers
Fish in a Tree
Focused
The Lemonade War
Lights, Camera, Disaster

Sahara Special
Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time

Academically Gifted Students

Chasing Vermeer
Colin Fischer
Counting By 7s
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
Ender's Game
Flipping Forward Twisting Backward
Geek Girl
Kyle Finds Her Way
The Lemonade War
Millicent Min, Girl Genius
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
The Mysterious Benedict Society

Neil Flambe
Out of My Mind
The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
Ungifted
The View from Saturday
Vincent Shadow, Toy Inventor
The Westing Game
A Wrinkle in Time

Boarding School

The Bad Apple: Merits of Mischief
Carry On
Ender's Game
Ever After High
Harry Potter
A Little Princess

Outrun the Moon
Princess Academy
School of Fear

Bullying, Cliques

Changing School Policy

After Ever After - using standardized tests for promotion to the next grade
Anger is a Gift - armed security guards and metal detectors in school
Ban This Book - going to the school board to enforce existing library policies before removing books
Full Cicada Moon - girls who want to take shop class and study science
A Good Kind of Trouble - wearing an armband to support the Black Lives Matter movement
The Homework Strike - too much homework
Losers Take All - requirement to play on a sports team
The Report Card - grades, gifted programs
Sliding Into Home - girls who want to play baseball
The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy - resisting a reality TV show contest