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41) Hell and back
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
Author
Language
English
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,...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
44) Variant
Author
Series
Variant (Robison Wells) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
46) And we stay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and begins to heal.
Author
Series
Bruno and Boots volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Just as the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall is on the verge of retirement, a wave of practical jokes hits the school, and roommates Bruno and Boots become prime suspects.
49) Without mercy
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In order to keep an eye on her half-sister, Shaylee, Julia Farentino takes a job at an elite boarding school in Oregon known for turning wayward kids around. Julia is suspicious of the school, because she knows of one student who disappeared, and has never been found. Soon she uncovers disturbing information about previous students.
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
Author
Language
English
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2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
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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...
52) Bloomability
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
53) Evernight
Author
Series
Evernight volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
54) The Ivies
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Ivies, five prep school elites who would kill to get into the colleges of their dreams, has a showdown after Liv gets into Harvard and queen bee Avery does not.
55) Little men
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sick and soaked to the skin, Nat Blake has a stroke of luck when he stumbles across Plumfield, a school run by Jo Bhaer and her husband, a haven for lost boys. Immediately taken in by his new chaperone, Nat discovers a life he never knew could exist: one where education runs side by side with fun, in a school propelled by sound guidance and filled with camaraderie and love.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
58) Youngblood
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Kat Finn and Taylor Sanger, two queer bloodsuckers at an elite vampire-only boarding school, must go up against all of Vampirdom when they uncover a frightening conspiracy on campus.
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Abandoned in a therapeutic boarding school in upstate New York, 16-year-old suicide survivor Benjamin endures a turbulent environment dominated by scheduled medication, emotionally arrested caregivers and a brilliant but raging headmaster whose sudden illness throws the school into turmoil.
60) Christmas sweets
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nightmare on Elf Street: "Aside from the mortifying costume, how bad can a gig as a mall Santa's elf be? Jaine Austen finds out when she's teamed up with the Santa from Hell. But things go from bad to worse when he's found murdered on the job--and Jaine is a suspect. Now all she wants for Christmas is to find the real killer..." -- Page [4] cover.
The Christmas Thief: "Elizabeth Stone is ready for a white Christmas in Tinker's Cove, Maine--until...
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