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81) Lyra and Misty
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy treasure hunt volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lyra is excited to start school at Unicorn Academy with her unicorn, Misty, but when she and her friends find a piece of a treasure map, they must solve the clues to find the next piece--and the hidden treasure--before someone else does.
Author
Publisher
Medicine Wheel Education
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the story of Orange Shirt Day (an important day of remembrance for First Nations and non First Nations Canadians)."--publisher's...
84) Charm
Author
Series
Crave volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Katmere, Grace shouldn't be surprised by anything. Including the existence of a world called the Shadow Realm. Yet here she is, stuck in a strange, dangerous place with the worst of the supernaturals, the monster that other monsters fear: Hudson Vega. He might be Jaxon's brother, but the question is whether they will find a way out before she kills him... or runs out of time. They'll have to work together to survive-- and to save all those they've...
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
86) And we stay
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
87) We Were Children
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 84 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
In this feature film, the profound impact of the Canadian government’s residential school system is conveyed through the eyes of 2 children who were forced to face hardships beyond their years. As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools, where they suffered years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult lives. We Were Children gives voice to a...
88) Dorm
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Thai
Description
In Thailand, the young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to study harder and have less entertainment with television. Once in the school, Ton feels outcast and misses his family and friends. He becomes scared with the ghost stories his new schoolmates tell about a boy that died in the swimming pool and a young pregnant woman that committed suicide. He becomes a close friend of the also lonely boy Vichien, and later Ton realizes...
90) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of on the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
91) The broken girls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants--the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming--until one of them mysteriously disappears. . . .
Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...
93) Truly devious
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When Stevie Bell, an amateur detective, begins her first year at a famous private school in Vermont, she plans to solve the cold case involving the kidnapping of the founder's wife and daughter shortly after the school opened.
94) The new girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A transfer student and scholarship recipient, sophomore Lia Setiawan is angered when she discovers a cheating ring, but by the time she finds a dead body and shuts down the campus drug dealer, she fears she might be the biggest snake in the Draycott Academy nest of vipers.
Lia Setiawan is the new girl at school: she won a full ride to prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship. She's determined to make it work, but feels out of place. But...
Author
Series
Ever After High (Shannon Hale) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
303, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious being from Wonderland begins to infect Ever After High with a strange magic, everything goes topsy-turvy. Lizzie Hearts, Wonderland's future queen; Cedar Wood, daughter of Pinocchio; and Madeline Hatter, heir to the Mad Hatter's Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe, seem to be the only ones who haven't completely lost their heads. It's up to them to save their best friends forever after from a curse that threatens to give their school--and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Tess and Eliot stumble upon an ancient book hidden in a secret tunnel beneath the school library, they accidentally release a devil from his book-bound prison, and he'll stop at nothing to stay free. He'll manipulate all the ink in the library books to do his bidding, he'll murder in the stacks, and he'll bleed into every inch of Tess's life until his freedom is permanent. Forced to work together, Tess and Eliot have to find a way to re-trap...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Attending boarding school in London, Adele enters the glittering world of society girls and their wealthy suitors, until a violent assault leads her to a roguish young con woman, and together, they become vigilantes who mete out justice.
100) One year at Ellsmere
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Second edition.
Physical Desc
166 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Juniper is the new student at a prestigious boarding school. She needs to make friends fast--not to mention try to avoid the mythical beast rumored to be roaming the forest.
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