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Scholomance volume 3
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English
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"The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls. And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Olive Cobin Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that's now a “reforming arts school”! But nothing could’ve prepared Olive for RASCH (not “rash”). There, she’s lumped with a team of other kids who...
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English
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2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
Readalikes for 'Bright Young Women'
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge October Bonus Category: Dark Academia
Readalikes for 'Bright Young Women'
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
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English
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"Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce once again brings her knowledge of poisons and her indefatigable spirit to solve dastardly crimes -- but this time, she leaves behind her beloved English countryside, and takes her sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools!"--
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Truly Devious volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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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.
10) The broken girls
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Vermont, 1950: There's a place for the girls whom no one wants: the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town of Barrons, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears-- until one of them mysteriously disappears. 2014: Journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death twenty...
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A series of unfortunate events volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
12) Truly devious
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Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she sets a plan to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
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2023 Reading Challenge November Bonus Category: Indigenous Authors
Book Picks: March 2023
Readalikes for 'The Berry Pickers'
Book Picks: March 2023
Readalikes for 'The Berry Pickers'
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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...
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Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
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English
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2023 National Book Award Fiction Longlist
2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
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2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
2024 Reading Challenge: Read a book with a friend or book club
More Lists...
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"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...
16) Crave
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Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Grace's world changed when she joined the academy. At the academy she is a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She can't decide which faction she should join, or if she should join any of them. The one thing that unites them is their hatred of her. Then there's Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. Jaxon has walled himself off for a reason. Does someone want to wake the sleeping monster in him? Is...
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Wayward children volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Beneath the Sugar Sky returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world. Sumi died years before her prophesied daughter Rini could be born. Rini was born anyway, and now she's trying to bring her mother back from a world without magic.
19) Forever twelve
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Evers volume 1
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English
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When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.
At the elite West Archer Academy, all the students are gifted, but four are exceptional. Though the Evers look twelve, they're actually centuries...
20) The similars
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Similars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The Similars are all anyone can talk about at the elite Darkwood Academy. Who are these six clones? What are the odds that all of them would be Darkwood students? Who is the madman who broke the law to create them? Emma couldn't care less. Her best friend, Oliver, died over the summer and all she can think about is how to get through her junior year without him. Then she comes face-to-heartbreaking-face with Levi--Oliver's exact DNA replica and one...
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