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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"When Kevin Gogarty's irrepressible eighty-three-year-old mother, Millie, is caught shoplifting yet again, he has no choice but to hire a caretaker to keep an eye on her. Kevin, recently unemployed, is already at his wits' end tending to a full house while his wife travels to exotic locales for work, leaving him to tussle solo with their rebellious teenaged daughter, Aideen, whose troubles escalate at her new boarding school. Into the Gogarty fray...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...
64) Heartless sky
Author
Series
Zodiac Academy volume 7
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The winds of fate are shifting, and it finally seems like they've been twisted in our favour. On the run and cast out from society, we've been forced to hide from the mad man who stole our throne. But as more secrets come to light and my sister and I work harder than ever before to reach our potential and claim our birth right, the end is finally drawing closer." --
65) Cadaver & queen
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn't have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she'll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-Mechanical--one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school--she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program. Only this Bio-Mechanical...
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Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
68) Falling stars
Author
Series
Shooting stars volume 5
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
The conclusion to the Shooting Stars series begins as Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, and Honey meet at a prestigious school for performing arts housed in a New York City mansion. There, the four become fast friends, but they soon realize this is no ordinary school, and they dig deeper into its mysteries that could very well destroy their dreams.
69) When I was eight
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
This book chronicles the unbreakable spirit of an Inuit girl while attending an Arctic residential school.
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2017, 2015.
Description
Crime hits close to home when Friday Barnes learns her mother has been kidnapped. But her detective work gets put aside when Friday is distracted by other happenings at school: a new VIP student (a Norwegian princess!) has just arrived and a master thief called the Pimpernel is causing chaos across campus. Can super sleuth and girl genius Friday crack the case of her missing mother, reign in a royal brat, and unmask the elusive Pimpernel?
71) Spy Academy
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Zack Pearce is thrilled to be attending St. Perfidious Yearling Academy, known to its students as Spy Academy, but when he is accused of being a double agent from St. Perfidious's rival the ROGUE School, Zack wonders if he can uncover the real double agent before it's too late, and if anyone will believe him if he does.
72) Redemption Prep
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Told in multiple voices, teens at a preparatory school for the exceptional in the forests of Utah uncover a larger mystery after a student disappears.
73) Finny: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
We meet Finny Short as an observant, defiant fourteen-year-old who can t make sense of her family s unusual habits: her mother offers guidance appropriate for a forty-year-old socialite; her father quotes Nietzsche over pancakes. Finny figures she s stuck with this lonely lot until she meets Earl Henckel, a boy who comes from an even stranger place than she does. Unhappy with Finny s budding romance with Earl, her parents ship her off to Thorndon...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Central International School's annual lock-in is legendary. Bonds are made. Contests are fought. Stories are forged that will be passed down from student to student for years to come. This year's lock-in begins normally enough. Then a group of students led by Marisa Cuevas stage an ecoprotest and chain themselves to the doors, vowing to keep everyone trapped inside until their list of demands is met. Some students rally to their cause -- but others...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Radcliffe Prep. The third most haunted school in the country, where a student disappearance isn't uncommon and no one dares stay in the library after dark. And Este Logano enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father. Not literally, of course. She doesn't believe in ghosts. Going to her dad's school just seems like her best hope at figuring out who he was. But then Este meets Mateo, who is maybe--probably--definitely--a real ghost. And an annoying...
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Description
Eleven-year-old Friday Barnes discovers that her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime and soon she is investigating the disappearance of homework, stolen desserts, and a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"By the author of The Shortest Way Home, a charming and redemptive novel about unexpected second chances, following a publicist who, after the sudden implosion of her career, takes a job as a dorm mom at a Sonoma boarding school"--
Gillian thought she had everything she ever wanted--as a successful publicist running her own Manhattan firm and working with a high-profile-celebrity clientele, she finally made herself at home among the elite who eluded...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Monique is a preacher's daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. Everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can't have sex. After two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. To win him back, Monique teams up with straight-laced church girl Sasha--as well as Reggie, the misunderstood bad boy... While on their quest, Monique discovers the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy returns to Pemberley Academy for her junior year, hoping to atone for last year's incident with Wickham by rebuilding her reputation, rejoining the marching band, and setting up her older brother Fitz with his college classmate Lizzie Bennet.