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Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old pranking mastermind Doe Saltpeter abandons her plans to win a rivalry with the neighboring boys' school and instead joins forces with her enemies to protect a younger student from a teacher's inappropriate behavior.
Author
Series
Mythos Academy volume 1
Publisher
K Teen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Jasmine Ashton is murdered in the Library of Antiquities, Gwen Frost is determined to find out who killed the girl after she realizes she should have been the one that died.
83) Scammed
Author
Series
Vale Hall volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Brynn's new assignment, to try to bring Grayson's father to justice, threatens not only the future graduating from Vale Hall would ensure, but her relationships with her friends and almost-boyfriend.
84) The expectations
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Sent to the prestigious boarding school his family has attended for generations, Ben struggles to prove himself at the side of a marginalized roommate before realizing how much the school's realities differ from what he anticipated.
85) The Furies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1990s England, at an elite boarding school connected to seventeenth-century witch trials, troubled sixteen-year-old Violet is drawn into a circle of friends dabbling in witchcraft to avenge wrongs done to them.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Isla has had a crush on classmate, Josh, since their freshman year at the School of America in Paris. After a chance encounter over the summer in Manhattan, they return to France for their senior year, where they are forced to confront challenges every young couple in love must face.
87) Girl detective
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A genius girl detective discovers her ultra exclusive boarding school is a hotbed of crime, from missing homework and stolen lemon tarts to a mysterious yeti haunting the school swamp"-- Provided by publisher.
88) Very bad people
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Calliope Bolan joins a powerful secret society at her new boarding school, hoping to find answers about her mother's death, but she becomes involved in a dangerous campaign for revenge that threatens her new friendships.
Author
Series
Dark mirror novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tory and her friends receive an urgent summons, leading the young mages known as Merlin's Irregulars to ask Rebecca Weiss, an untrained telepath from 1940, to join them in 1804 and stop Napoleon from invading England.
Author
Series
St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.--
91) Under suspicion
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The mystery continues in this middle-grade series about a genius girl detective who solves crimes at her exclusive boarding school"--
Author
Series
Ravenborn volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As she discovers the truth about her past, Kaira, a senior at a boarding school for aspiring musicians and artists, discovers that vengeful gods are threatening humanity.
93) If we were us
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael prove to everyone at Bexley School that their close friendship does not hide a romance when new student Nick Morrissey and Charlie's twin brother, Nick, stir things up.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 6
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Asa Pike, a Bloor's Academy student with the ability to change into a beast at dusk, goes missing, twelve-year-old Charlie Bone suspects a new classmate, the magically gifted Dagobert Endless, of foul play.
95) Dark passage
Author
Series
Dark mirror novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Safely back in 1803 England, Merlin's Irregulars are more confident, proud, and powerful, but class distinctions complicate their relationships until the mages are called upon to rescue a vitally important French scientist and his family from Nazi-occupied France.
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fated to be the next Rapunzel, Holly O'Hair has long hair while her twin sister Poppy wears hers short, but when Holly's hair begins getting shorter as Poppy's grows longer, the sisters may have to reveal a secret about their fairytale destinies.
98) The secret box
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In this book without words, a young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place.
99) Wilder girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend's tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley--a new student and a teenage literary prodigy--who enlists Felicity's help in researching the school's bloody, occult history for her new book.
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