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Two more weeks, and Lily Hopper is officially finished with boarding school! When she receives a mysterious note inviting her to join the anonymous senior class Jester in executing the end-of-year prank, Lily sees her chance for a little fun. The Jester turns out to be Taggart Swell, her ex-boyfriend. She'd back out, but he has a brilliant plan to steal the school's yearbooks, targeting Lilly's prom date: Senior Class President, Daniel. As the pranksters...
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Series
Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy. Then politician Edward King arrives at her house to offer a deal: he will bring Stevie back to Ellingham if she will play nice with his son, David, a fellow classmate. King is in the midst of a campaign and can't afford his son stirring...
5) Wilder girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island.
It's been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty's life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange...
6) Silver
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Emma is used to things going her way. Her father is headmaster of her prestigious boarding school, her friends take her advice as gospel, and she's convinced that a relationship with her long-time crush is on the horizon. As it turns out, Emma hasn't seen anything yet. When she finds an old book in an abandoned library, things really start going Emma's way: anything she writes in the book comes true. But the power of the book is not without consequences,...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Mia is officially a Troubled Teen"--she gets bad grades, drinks too much, and has probably gone too far with too many guys. But she doesn't realize how out of control she seems until she is taken from her home in the middle of the night and sent away to Red Oak Academy, a therapeutic girls' boarding school in the middle of nowhere. While there, Mia is forced to confront her painful past at the same time she questions why she's at Red Oak. If she were...
9) Court
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 4
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
"No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don't recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I'm not sure I'll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we're not ready. We're going to need an army to have any hope of winning. But first, there are questions about my ancestors that need answers. Answers that might just reveal who the real monster is among us. And that's saying something...
10) Charm
Author
Series
Crave volume 5
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Unravel the mystery of the missing four months between Grace and Hudson -- when she finds herself trapped with the last boy she ever expected, and certainly the most obnoxious one she's ever met. If he doesn't shut up, she just might kill him...if she doesn't kiss him first. He's under my skin...
After Katmere, Grace shouldn't be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world called the Shadow Realm. Yet here she is, stuck in a strange,...
11) Liar's beach
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Michael Linden -- or just Linden to his preppy boarding school pals -- doesn't belong in wealthy, storied Martha's Vineyard. But when his roommate Jasper invites him to spend the end of summer at his massive beachfront home, August House, Linden tries his best to fit in. Linden wouldn't call it lying, exactly. Though it turns out August House is full of liars. Then someone is found unconscious in Jasper's pool, and everyone has something to hide...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Paralyzed by grief, Moira feels punished when her parents send her to a therapeutic boarding school in Maine where she meets eleven other troubled girls and gradually begins to understand her parents' true intentions behind sending her there.
When Moira Dreyfuss's parents announce that they're sending her to an all-girls boarding school deep in the Maine woods, she knows her parents are punishing her. She's been too much trouble since her best friend,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's senior year, and Daphne Elizabeth "DE" McKinley, the heiress to the McKinley hotel dynasty, is still licking her wounds after a painful breakup. She's determined to keep her head down and her heart shuttered--even from new student Xander, no matter how dreamy he is. Then Rosetta Academy is swallowed up by a sudden and massive spring storm, and very strange things start happening. The students start to fall into a stupor, then a deep sleep...one...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Then a student...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions is a window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challenges they face and the risks they take to control their destinies. Students at an all-girls boarding school, Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape forge an unbreakable sisterhood that is tempered during a school rebellion, an uprising with repercussions that will forever reverberate through their lives....
Author
Series
Little school by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
17) Cherish
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 6
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"It's been over three months since my friends and I took down Cyrus. Three months where my biggest fear was what paper was due next... But I should have known it was too good to last. Now everything is falling apart. The Vampire Court has no king, the Dragon Court has no heart, and the Gargoyle Court has me--a teenager in way over her head. And it's the worst possible timing, because a threat is brewing just as the Circle is collapsing. I have no...
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