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42) 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.
Author
Series
Mythos Academy volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Surviving a Reaper attack at the Library of Antiquities, Gwen Frost, still struggling with the pain of losing Logan, races against time and fights formidable Reaper adversaries to find an antidote to cure a poisoned student.
Author
Series
Rosewood chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lottie Pumpkin is an ordinary girl who has spent her life longing for the extraordinary. Ellie Wolf is the crown princess of Maradova, who wants nothing more than a chance at an ordinary life. When fate puts Lottie and Ellie in the same dorm room at the prestigious Rosewood Hall, there's only one solution: for the girls to swap identities, and live the lives they've always dreamed of. But at Rosewood, a secret never stays secret for long. Someone...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her father dies leaving her penniless, Sara Crewe, a once privileged pupil at Miss Minchin's London boarding school, endures many hardships and cruel treatment until she is helped by a mysterious benefactor.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
When a brutal angel army trespasses into the human world, Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat -- and against larger dangers that loom on the horizon in this thrilling conclusion to the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy.
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"After ten-year-old Sophia meets her unicorn, Rainbow, at Lakeside Unicorn Academy, they're away on their first amazing adventure--they must discover who is tampering with the lake that gives unicorns their magic!"--
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.
52) Not my blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It's 1933 London and Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands receives a phone call from a boy saying he is his nephew, a teacher at his school has been murdered and he is responsible. Joe gets assigned to the case and finds that over the history of the school a large number of boys from wealthy families have disappeared and none of the families have followed up on their son's whereabouts.
53) The murder game
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Luke Chase's roommate Oscar convinces him to sneak out of their boarding school dorm to meet up with a couple of girls in the forest, have a good time, and no one will ever know. When the wife of one of their teachers is found dead in the woods the next morning, the group decides to solve the murder on their own. Will they be able to catch the killer before the killer catches them? -- adapted from back cover
When someone attempts to frame his best...
54) The crazy school
Author
Series
Madeline Dare mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She's inherited Sherlock2s volatility and some of his vices, and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she2s not looking for friends. But when a student they both...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is...
57) 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
Gallagher girls volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As a sophomore at a secret spy school and the daughter of a former CIA operative, Cammie is sheltered from "normal teenage life" until she meets a local boy while on a class surveillance mission.
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.
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 11
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Violet, Twinkle, and their friends embark on an adventure across a frozen lagoon, but this fun outing takes a sinister turn impelling Twinkle to discover her magic so she can lead them to a daring rescue.
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