Books with title The Game

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cecilia Calhoun's transition to Capital Central High School has been rough. She joined Stepperz, the school step team, but hasn't really become close with any of the girls. The team co-captain, Brennay Baxter, rules Stepperz like dictator. She makes life miserable for any girl who doesn't do her bidding. Cecilia is horrified when someone starts an anonymous blog that awards points for every documented interaction students have with Remy Stevenson, an autistic Cap Central student. Capital Central High School, or Cap Central as the students like to call it, is in the northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Any urban school faces broad challenges, and Cap Central is no different. But some tight-knit juniors meet the difficulties head-on with courage, friendship, determination, and hard work.

Many patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floor—two of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head of the department did them the honor of waiting upon them himself—or did Joe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthed awe of the elevator boy who brought them up. Nor had she been blind to the marked respect shown Joe by the urchins and groups of young fellows on corners, when she walked with him in their own neighborhood down at the west end of the town.

An eerie new young adult series about a college where kids go to start over—and a pair of siblings with a secretThe famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for the highly gifted. But to Julia and her brother, it's the perfect place to hide. When they stumble upon a dead body their first week they'll learn they can only run so far from their past—and that the valley has secrets of its own.

An eerie new young adult series about a college where kids go to start over—and a pair of siblings with a secretThe famous Grace College, located in a remote valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is an elite school for the highly gifted. But to Julia and her brother, it's the perfect place to hide. When they stumble upon a dead body their first week they'll learn they can only run so far from their past—and that the valley has secrets of its own.

Hayley’s parents disappeared when she was a baby. Since then, she has been raised and homeschooled by her grandparents. Grandad is overworked and travels a lot; Grandma is much too strict and never lets her meet any children her own age. When Hayley does something wrong—she is not quite sure what—they pack her off to her aunts in Ireland. To Hayley’s shock, her family is much bigger than she thought; to her delight, the children all play what they call “the game,” where they visit a place called “the mythosphere.” And while she plays the game, Hayley learns more about her own place in the world than she had ever expected. This original novella by Diana Wynne Jones is sharply funny, fast-paced, and surprising until its very end—like all of this acclaimed author’s work.

On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter.Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general, that I wrote The Game." With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set it on a respectable literary course that extends from A. J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story The Game tells remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.

On the eve in their wedding, twenty-12 months-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her handiest rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's fearful eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair younger lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," in opposition to the savage and brutish John Ponta and that well-knownshows as a lot approximately her own nature, and Joe's, because it does approximately the force that drives the 2 guys of their violent, fateful come across.