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1) The School for Good and Evil

Author

Chainani, Soman

Series

School for Good and Evil volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16

Language

English

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Mighty Girls
National Fairy Tale Day - Juvenile Books
Page to Screen 2021-2022

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Best friends Sophie and Agatha are going to the School for Good and Evil.

2) Her royal highness

Author

Hawkins, Rachel

Series

Royals volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

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LGBTQIA+ Young Adult Fiction

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An American girl goes to an exclusive Scottish boarding school where she becomes the roommate, best friend, and girlfriend of a royal princess.

3) Again again

Author

Lockhart, E

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

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Rising high school senior Adelaide Buchwald grapples with a family catastrophe and romantic upheaval while confronting secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.

4) Looking for Alaska

Author

Green, John

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Young Adult

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Book, CD Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash. The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars. Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. New York...

5) Manners & mutiny

Author

Carriger, Gail

Series

Finishing school volume 4

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

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In an alternate England of 1851, Sophronia Temminnick is the only hope for her friends, her school, and all of London when she must put her espionage training to the test to thwart an evil Picklemen plot.

6) Waistcoats and weaponry

Author

Carriger, Gail

Series

Finishing school volume 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12

Language

English

Formats

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In her alternate England of 1851, while taking her friend Sidheag by train to her werewolf pack in Scotland, sixteen-year-old Sophronia uncovers a plot that threatens to dissolve all of London into chaos and must decide where her loyalties lie once and for all.

7) The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks: a novel

Author

Lockhart, E

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

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Sophomore Frankie starts dating senior Matthew Livingston, but when he refuses to talk about the all-male secret society that he and his friends belong to, Frankie infiltrates the society in order to enliven their mediocre pranks.

8) Don't judge a girl by her cover

Author

Carter, Ally

Series

Gallagher girls volume 3

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

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Book, eBook, Kindle

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When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.

9) A little princess

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Series

Storytime classics

Language

English

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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

10) Blow out the moon

Author

Koponen, Libby

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2004

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Description

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A fictionalized account of the author's childhood experiences moving from the United States to London, England, and attending a boarding school.

11) Samurai shortstop

Author

Gratz, Alan

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

Formats

Book (Paperback), CD Book

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While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.

12) The It Girl

Author

Von Ziegesar, Cecily

Series

It girl novels (Cecily von Ziegesar) volume 1
An It girl novel

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

c2005

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

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Having left her elite Manhattan private school to attend an equally exclusive New York State boarding school, sophomore Jenny Humphrey sets out to become the most alluring girl on campus.

13) Simon says

Author

Alphin, Elaine Marie

Publisher

Harcourt

Pub. Date

c2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

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An alienated, aspiring young painter who attends high school at a boarding school for the arts discovers that being true to himself means opening the door to both pain and pleasure.

14) Lawless

Author

Salane, Jeffrey

Series

Lawless volume 1

Publisher

Scholastic Press

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Description

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M Freeman enrolls in Lawless School which provides education for kids on the wrong side of the law. M navigates different criminal cliques and is invited to join the secret society of Masters.

15) The reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt

Author

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody

Publisher

Dial Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

[2010]

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

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On her first day of boarding school, a thirteen-year-old girl who feels boring and invisible decides to change her personality to match her unusual name.

16) Groosham Grange

Author

Horowitz, Anthony

Series

Groosham Grange series volume 1

Publisher

Philomel Books

Pub. Date

c1999

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Description

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After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.

17) Finding Hattie

Author

Warner, Sally

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Description

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In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.

18) Poor little dead girls

Author

Friend, Lizzie

Publisher

Merit Press

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Description

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Starting her junior year at an exclusive East Coast girls' boarding school on a lacrosse scholarship, small-town Sadie uncovers a murder mystery after being inducted into a powerful secret society.