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Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he’s seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D nerds, grills steroid-raging linemen, and interviews filthy-rich actresses, he soon senses that something far stranger—“witchy”, in fact—is afoot. When students start to meet mysterious and gruesome...
42) Madam
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, Caldonbrae Hall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge 'resilient and ready...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she's carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she's not like the other girls-if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don't give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one-the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
DI Herbert Reardon is drawn into a world of secrets and lies when a body is discovered at a girls boarding school. 1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider -- his ancestors helped found St. James, his older brother taught him all the slang, and he's just won a national championship in squash. But after fourteen long years of waiting, Ben arrives at school only to find that the reality of St. James doesn't quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time, his new roommate, Ahmed...
46) Justice
Author
Series
Lawless volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"M Freeman thought she had finally found a place where she belonged: the Lawless School, where the children of master criminals trained to become master criminals themselves. But now that life is behind her. Faced with the existence of a weapon that could threaten all life on Earth, M Freeman is ready to fight the good fight for a change. That means joining the Fulbright Academy. In their ancient cops-and-robbers conflict against the Lawless School,...
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When two siblings attend an unusual school, aboard a ship, they make new friends, learn about all things nautical, and become involved in a mystery they feel compelled to help solve"--
48) Fresh blood
Author
Series
VAMPS (Nicole Arend) volume 1
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Swiss Alps, VAMPS is the ultimate academy for the children of the most wealthy and powerful vampire families. Unfortunately for Dillon, he's an outsider--to be more specific, he's a dhampir: a vampire that is half human. If he wants to survive more than a single term, he's going to need to embrace his fangs. But blood never lies and soon, it becomes clear there is something special and deadly in Dillon's veins. But as his power grows,...
49) Afraid
Language
English
Description
In this collection of never-before-released, linked novellas about dark secrets, murder, and revenge, all connected by St. Cecilia's School for Girls, three women, all of whom attended this haven for the daughters of the rich and famous, find their pasts catching up to them with a vengeance.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day. From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories...
Author
Series
Scholomance volume lesson 3
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Description
"SALVAR EL MUNDO es una prueba para la que ninguna escuela de magia puede prepararte en la triunfal conclusión de la trilogía best seller del New York Times que dio comienzo con Una educación mortal y El último graduado. Lo único que nadie menciona nunca dentro de la Escolomancia es lo que hará cuando salga. Ni siquiera el alumno de enclave más rico tentaría al destino de esa forma. Pero no soñamos con nada más que con la exigua posibilidad...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Description
More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
"Un lugar oscuro donde las chicas problemáticas, las hijas de madres solteras o las que han cometido un desliz... desaparecen. ¿Logrará Fiona Sheridan descubrir el misterio que envuelve Idlewild Hall? Vermont, 1950. Existe un lugar para muchachas...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Shuggie Bain and A Burning, a queer coming-of-age novel set in 1990s India, about a young man who joins a traveling theater troupe Shagun knows he will never be the kind of son his father demands. After the sudden deaths of his beloved twin sisters, Shagun flees his own guilt, his mother's grief, and his father's violent disapproval by enrolling at an all-boys boarding school. But he doesn't find true belonging until he encounters a traveling...
55) Wandering stars
Author
Series
There there volume 2
Language
English
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Description
''"For the sake of knowing, of understanding, Wandering Stars blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you." - Morgan Talty, bestselling author of Night of the Living Rez Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When her new friend at Broomsfield Academy, popular girl Isabelle, shares a huge secret and makes her promise to keep it, witch-in-training Heidi Heckelbeck finds it difficult to keep her word, especially with a nosy classmate snooping around"--
57) Truth be told
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Are you ready to start this conversation? Kamran Hadid feels invincible. He attends Hampton school, an elite all-boys boarding school in London, he comes from a wealthy family and he has a place at Oxford next year. The world is at his feet. And then a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter, and he must ask himself a horrific question. With the help of assault counsellor Zara Kaleel, Kamran reports the incident in the hopes that will be the...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The disappearance of a brilliant scholarship student and a young, charismatic teacher from an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Ireland is an unsolved mystery that has captivated the whole country. Year after year the media revisit it, and the conspiracy theories persist. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearances, a journalist who grew up on the same street as the missing girl delves into the past to write a series of articles...
59) Mrs. S
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortlisted writer K Patrick In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.” Within this landscape...
60) Siempre amigos
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una conmovedora historia sobre la fortuna de enfrentarse a los desafíos de la vida con verdaderos amigos a nuestro lado. Cuando Gabby, Izzie, Billy, Andy y Sean se conocen el primer día de colegio, sienten una conexión y una complicidad especiales. Ajenos a los nubarrones de tormenta que se están formando a su alrededor, compartirán horas de clases y juegos, y poco a poco se harán inseparables. La adolescencia vendrá acompañada de confl...
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