junior high

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But Burke allegedly drove to Lake Elsinore and paid a junior high school student $1,000 to give her a new phone so they could stay in touch, according to the document filed Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

And then he talked about Greenland, teasing his remarks as if he were standing on a junior high school stage introducing an eighth-grade production of “We’re No Angels.”

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

We wrote a story about it for our mimeographed junior high school newspaper; at first the teacher didn’t believe we had really talked with him.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

As a junior high kid, the game was a refuge, a creative tool where I could envision characters, worlds and fantastical scenarios.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

So, to keep him happy, they let him start being a sort of junior high priest.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder