Sentences with phrase «by schoolmate»

In this Newbery Medal winner, Manhattan sixth - grader Miranda Sinclair recounts a mind - bending, time - traveling story that begins after her best friend, Sal, is attacked by schoolmates and then, afterward, barely acknowledges Miranda.

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He was taken in by the parents of a schoolmate, according to that family's attorney.

Milton was grieving for the death by drowning of his schoolmate, Edward King, on his way to Ireland in 1637.

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

And yet, the Millers are finally driven from their Eden by the destructive behavior of their son toward a black schoolmate.

Fourteen years ago a high school junior named Jermaine Ewell was beaten into a coma by a former schoolmate and his crew.

Last week, at his graduation from Breckinridge County High School in Hardinsburg, he was voted the Rotary Club's Citizenship Award by his mostly white schoolmates.

Regular presentations by the students to their schoolmates, to parents, and visitors give Waldorf students a sense of confidence that students in other educational environments often lack.

Let's just hope that your child's future schoolmates won't take it too far and mock your child by saying «A River runs through it,» or «Cry me a River.»

They do their part in expanding the pool from which tomorrow's minority scientists are drawn by helping their schoolmates take advantage of the resources available on the site.

-- Schoolmates.co.uk can be used by anyone who attended school in the last 100 years and is designed to be the number one place for schoolmates to keep in touch.

However, the arrival of Gordon's daughter, Alexia (Michelle Ryan), an old schoolmate of his, on top of some threatening behaviour towards his sister and brother by local thugs, starts to send Clayton spiralling out of control, and down the same path that his father travelled many years before.

Peter's parents are dead, he's being raised by his aunt and uncle (Sally Field and Martin Sheen), and he has a crush on a schoolmate — not the girl next door this time, but Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), the daughter of the police chief (Denis Leary).

They're called upon to go all Buffy when an ancient evil rises from beneath the ground in Manitoba and threatens their invites to a big party thrown by one of their schoolmates.

Greg has found a way to avoid the trappings of high school by building vague relationships with a large number of his schoolmates so that no one really relies on him but no one dislikes him either.

Data generated by these initiatives indicate that while some violence is unexpected and isolated, the majority of violent acts experienced by children is perpetrated by people who are part of their lives: parents, schoolmates, teachers, employers, boyfriends or girlfriends, spouses and partners.

For example, the literature on school finance and control is currently absorbed with the question of whether students are affected by the achievement of their schoolmates.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

Researchers typically examine peer effects by defining the peer group broadly (all classmates, schoolmates, neighbors) because of the lack of friendship information in many data sources as well as to

As Pakistan marked «Malala Day» in a global day of support for the teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting girls» education, security fears in her hometown meant her schoolmates could not honor her in public.