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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
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Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
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With two sons of her own and twelve orphan boys filling the informal school at Plumfield, Jo March couldn't be happier. But boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, even when they are being cared for by the warm and affectionate March family.
Author
Series
Scholomance volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
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. El and her friends changed the nature of the Scholomance forever. But now that she is back in the real world, will the lessons she learned inside the school apply? Will her grandmother's prophecy come true, and El will spell the doom of all the enclaves forever? An enclave war is brewing, and El is about to learn the most significant lesson of all:...
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
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...
7) Bloomability
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
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.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 4
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Charlie and his magically gifted friends and relatives work together to rescue Billy Raven, a young orphan, from a mysterious and dangerous couple who have adopted him.
12) The Honeys
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
14) Madeline
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1960.
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format"--Page 4 of cover.
15) The secret place
Author
Series
Dublin Murder Squad novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says "I know who killed him." Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Charlie and the Children of the Red King must call upon all of their strength to defeat the darkness and finally learn the fate of Charlie's family, the evil intentions of the Bloors, what has become of Septimus Bloor's will, and the destiny of the Red King's heirs.
19) Hysteria
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
20) Not my blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
345, 12 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard Detective Joe Sandilands is caught off guard one night in 1933 by a phone call from a distressed boy named Jackie Drummond, who just might be the illegitimate son Joe never knew he had. Jackie is in trouble at his Sussex boarding school, where a teacher has been murdered. When Joe gets himself assigned to the investigation, he learns the boarding school case is more complicated than it appears: A frightening number of boys, all from...
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