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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.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you'll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood... it's probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore that this time you'd keep safe?...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 7
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company." There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as...
64) Rosa and Crystal
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Rosa is so excited to be at Unicorn Academy with her unicorn, Crystal! She has big plans to become best friends with the girls in her dorm. When the academy's magical map breaks, Rosa asks her roomates to go on an adventure to fix it. Can the girls in Diamond dorm learn to work together in time to restore the map's magic?
65) As I descended
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tapping a dark power to prevent the favorite candidate of a distinguished educational prize from winning, school power couple Maria and Lily unleash fatal energies that blur the lines between reality and madness.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When we Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines - a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of...
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Magical Sparkle Lake is starting to freeze, and Unicorn Academy might have to close. Can ten-year-old Scarlett and her unicorn Blaze find out who's freezing the lake and save the school?"--
69) No rules
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After Friday Barnes is deported to Switzerland, Highcrest Academy descends into chaos as all their teachers are fired as an epic prank, but Friday tries to find the prankster, prove the innocence of her nemesis Ian Wainscott, and save the school.
70) 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.
72) Layla and Dancer
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Layla must overcome her cautious nature and take her unicorn Dancer on a dangerous ride to find a cure for the trees dying around Sparkle Lake.
73) Love, Jacaranda
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate this...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children's mean girl discovers her talent for finding absolutely anything, new student Antsy searches for a way back to the Shop Where Lost Things Go to be sure Vineta and Hudson are keeping their promise.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of It's Always the Husband comes a riveting new suspense novel about privilege, power, and what happens when we let ambition take control. When twin sisters Rose and Bel Enright enroll in The Odell School, a prestigious New Hampshire boarding school, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. But the sisters could not be more different. The school brings out a rivalry between them that few ever knew existed. And the school itself...
76) The star dunes
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 4
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Cruz and his fellow recruits tackle challenging missions to dispense life-saving medication to gorillas, thwart pangolin poachers, and capture images of the last known cheetahs in Namibia--all the while discovering that protecting the world's threatened species is a dangerous business. Things turn deadly for Lani, Sailor, Emmett, and Cruz as they search for the fourth piece of Cruz's mom's cipher. Cruz knows it's not going to be easy, but will an...
77) Call of the kiwi
Author
Series
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the conclusion to the In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials--and triumphs--in New Zealand and beyond.
78) The initiation
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an inprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Before James grew up to be a ruthless, remorseless villain, he was a curious boy from Boston, with a penchant for trouble and an acid tongue. Thrown into a boarding school against his wishes, James winds up rooming with a most unlikely companion: a lanky British know-it-all named Sherlock Holmes ("Lock" to his friends). An heirloom Bible, donated by the Moriarty family more than a hundred years ago, has gone missing, and it doesn't take long for the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Witches have been banned from Arrett for years. Which is why Milly has tried to ignore the tingling light that appears in her palm anytime she conjures up a wish. She has too many responsibilities as the oldest girl at St. George's Orphanage to get caught up in magicks. Sweet, quirky Cilla, though, has always longed for that power, even if it could be dangerous for her. Milly has always kept an eye out for her, but then, in a case of mistaken identity,...
Author
Series
Little Women series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years on, the Plumfield boys have all grown up. Each has taken up a new career in life and set off to different corners of the earth to earn their fortune and hone their trade. They nevertheless return to their home in Plumfield to tell their tales, to rekindle old flames of love and to mourn sad news that strikes their small community. Over all this presides Mother Bhaer, flanked by her ever faithful sisters and family.
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