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1	The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education more books like this by Grace Llewellyn add to wishlist Written by a teacher, this handbook addresses the essentials of home schooling: the legal issues of leaving school, finding work opportunities and getting into college without going to school. see all copies from $4.12! new only from $99.00!
2	Strange Attractions more books like this by Emma Holly add to wishlist Determined not to repeat her mother's mistakes, high school dropout Charity Wills jumps at the chance to attend college for free. However, she must travel to the estate of a reclusive physicist who likes to play sex games in this new work of erotica from the author of "Personal Assets." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Film Club: A Memoir more books like this by David Gilmour add to wishlist Gilmour offers his 15-year-old son an unconventional deal: Jesse can drop out of school, but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing. Through their film club, father and son discuss everything from love to drugs--and their own lives change in surprising ways. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.38! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The School on Heart's Content Road more books like this by Carolyn Chute add to wishlist Since her astonishing debut, "The Beans of Egypt, Maine," best-selling novelist Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass, earning comparisons to Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Flannery O'Connor. Her first novel in ten years returns to Egypt, and is a rousing, politically charged portrait of a group of lives on the margins ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic! more books like this by Bill Milliken add to wishlist "Did you know that we're battling an epidemic* . . . ?"- Almost one-third of all high-school students fail to graduate with their class; among minorities, the dropout rate is almost 50 percent. - Dropouts are more likely than their peers to be unemployed, live in poverty, have poor health, depend upon social services, and go to jail.- The combined ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Adolescents at Risk more books like this by Joy G Dryfoos add to wishlist Seven million youngsters--one in four adolescents--have only limited potential for becoming productive adults because they are at high risk for encountering serious problems at home, in school, or in their communities. This is one of the disturbing findings in this unique overview of what is known about young people aged 10 to 17 growing up in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.76! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition more books like this by Vincent Tinto add to wishlist As enrollments continue to decline, student retention is increasingly vital to the survival of most colleges and universities. In the second edition of this text, Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce it. The key to effective retention, Tinto demonstrates, is in a ... see all copies from $28.84! new only from $29.50! \| SVS
8	College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success more books like this by Alan Seidman (Editor) add to wishlist 51.95 see all copies from $47.92! new only from $95.00!
9	Teaching Unprepared Students: Strategies for Promoting Success and Retention in Higher Education more books like this by Kathleen F Gabriel, Sandra Flake (Foreword by) add to wishlist As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education - not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special admission status) who are academically at-risk ... see all copies from $25.57! new only from $25.57! \| SVS
10	Reality Check more books like this by Peter Abrahams add to wishlist When Clea falls for Cody, her disapproving father sends her to boarding school. Soon afterward, Clea mysteriously disappears, and Cody sets out to discover what happened, in this thrilling tale by the author of the Echo Falls Mystery series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.36! \| SVS
11 view cover	Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community more books like this by Michael Corbett add to wishlist The relationship between rural communities and contemporary education is analyzed in this innovative case study of the town of Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. Rather than supporting place-based curriculums and establishing social, economic, and cultural networks within suburban populations, the modern school has typically stood in opposition to local ... see all copies from $22.01! new only from $22.01! \| signed copies \| SVS
12 view cover	The Hesperides Tree more books like this by Mosley add to wishlist An eighteen-year-old boy goes with his parents to the west coast of Ireland where, by chance, he witnesses terrorist gun-running activity. His father is involved with a local wildlife station where biologists are studying the causes of variations among birds. On the off-shore island where this research has centred, there are ruins of the cells in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
13	Increasing Student Retention: Effective Programs and Practices for Reducing the Dropout Rate more books like this by Lee Noel, Diana Saluri, Randi Levitz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $110.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Latino Dropouts in Rural America: Realities and Possibilities more books like this by Carolyn Hondo, Mary E Gardiner, Yolanda Sapien add to wishlist Latino high school students in rural communities talk about dropping out of school. see all copies from $22.57! new only from $22.57! \| SVS
15 view cover	Educating the Net Generation: How to Engage Students in the 21st Century more books like this by Bob Pletka add to wishlist In examining the unique characteristics of the Net Generation, this book addresses the national problem of escalating high-school dropout rates and student disengagement and offers solutions as to how to best involve students of the millennial generation. Besides contrasting this generation's educational needs and expectations to those of their ... see all copies from $9.96! new only from $9.96! \| SVS
16 view cover	Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success more books like this by James Marcus Bach add to wishlist Bach's smart and empowering guide to self-education shows how leading a life in pursuit of passion can result in fulfillment and success. Anyone looking for an instruction manual on how to get a high-quality education without having to show up for classes will find all they need here.--"Publishers Weekly." see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Dreaming of Gwen Stefani more books like this by Evan Mandery add to wishlist Dreaming of Gwen Stefani is a quirky and compelling riff on the nature of romantic obsession, celebrity worship, free will versus determinism and the Joys of Papaya King Hot dogs.--Jay McInerney Mortimer Taylor Coleridge is a unique man. With a mind of rare mathematical precision, he is obsessed with imposing order upon the chaos of every day ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
18 view cover	Slam more books like this by Lewis Shiner add to wishlist Recently released from prison (where he served time for tax evasion), Dave secures a job as the caretaker of an old woman's house, not to mention the 23-odd cats that are the beneficiaries of her will. Run-ins with lawyers, computer geeks, and skatepunks are all in Dave's future in this cyberpunk-related novel, originally published in 1990. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Redundant Masculinities: Employment Change and White Working Class Youth more books like this by Professor Linda McDowell add to wishlist Failing at school, disadvantaged in a changing labour market, and characterized by policy-makers as thugs, young men are said by some to be experiencing a crisis of masculinity. In Redundant Masculinities? Linda McDowell, known for her path-breaking work on gender relations and identities, investigates this crisis as it relates to young working ... see all copies from $23.31! new only from $27.73! \| SVS
20 view cover	A Practical Guide to Enrollment and Retention Management in Higher Education more books like this by Marguerite J Dennis add to wishlist This guide offers higher education administrators advice on how to develop and implement effective and efficient enrolment and retention management programmes. see all copies from $104.81! new only from $126.89!
21	Yours Truly more books like this by Judie Angell add to wishlist Nicki loves her father. Sure he's done drugs, dealt, disappeared for years. But he needs her, and now, when she's in eighth grade, he shows up in her life again. Nicki wants to be needed. But she starts cutting classes and, finally, wanting more freedom, Nicki moves in with her dad. But its not what she drops out of that matters, it's what she ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
22 view cover	Taking Charge: A School-Based Life Skills Program for Adolescent Mothers more books like this by Mary Beth Harris, Cynthia Franklin add to wishlist Taking Charge is the first empirically tested program of its kind, designed specifically to improve academic achievement and self-sufficiency for adolescent and teenage mothers, who face increased risk of dropping out and experiencing poverty. This eight-session, in-school group intervention uses cognitive-behavioral principles to bolster life ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $2.39!
23	Keeping Students in School: A Guide to Effective Dropout Prevention Programs and Services more books like this by Margaret T. Orr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.96! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Mental Health of Children and Adolescents: An Area of Global Neglect more books like this by Helmut Remschmidt (Editor), Barry Nurcombe, M.D. (Editor), Myron Lowell Belfer (Editor) add to wishlist Around the world, a vast number of children and adolescents suffer from mental and neurological disorders and only a small proportion of them receive adequate care. This is so in both developing and developed countries. The need to raise awareness about this problem and provide specific advice regarding their prevention and treatment was ... see all copies from $77.94! new only from $77.94!
25	Breaktime more books like this by Bernard Lefkowitz add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.15! \| signed copies \| first editions

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