Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate that her daughter, who is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette, become a proper lady. She enrolls...
Boarding schools
- Author:Carriger, GailSummary:
- Author:Shields, GillianSummary:
À l’école de l’Abbaye de Wyldcliffe, Sarah est la fidèle amie d’Evie et d’Helen, ses soeurs de la Voie mystique. Mais ce trimestre-ci, Sarah trouve que leur amitié traverse des moments difficiles. Evie tourne le dos à la Voie mystique...
- Author:Shulman, PollySummary:
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
- Author:Ehrenhaft, DanielSummary:
Carli, a teen actress who has gone undercover at a New England boarding school in order to research a role, hooks up with a student graffiti artist to investigate the disappearance of another of the school's pupils.
- Author:Shields, GillianSummary:
Cette histoire n’en est pas une de magie, mais de miracles. Le miracle de l’amitié, celui du courage et de la solidarité. Et le miracle de l’amour — le plus grand — qui est venu nous toucher quand Helen a fait face à son destin. Helen...
- Author:Webster, JeanSummary:
When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Wolff, TracySummary:
I'm in the fight of my life. For my humanity. For Jaxon. And for the world I've only just begun to be a part of. I'm all in, even if saving the people I love means I risk losing myself forever.
- Author:Wolff, TracySummary:
My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods ... or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I...
- Author:Wolff, TracySummary:
The third book in the smash hit Crave series will not disappoint-full of shocking twists, high-stakes romance, and deep fantasy lore, it'll be a must-have for die-hard series fans and new audiences alike.
- Author:Wolff, TracySummary:
No one survived the last battle unscathed. Flint is angry at the world, Jaxon is turning into something I don't recognize, and Hudson has put up a wall I'm not sure I'll ever break through. Now war is coming, and we're not ready. We're...
- Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
After Edwy is smuggled off to Refuge City to stay with his brother and sister, Rosi, Bobo, and Cana are stuck alone-and in danger-in Cursed Town in the thrilling follow-up to Children of Exile from New York Times bestselling author,...
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
A revolution in the Middle East has a direct and deadly impact upon the summer term at Meadowbank, a picture-perfect girls' school in the English countryside. Prince Ali Yusuf, Hereditary Sheikh of Ramat, whose great liberalizing...
- Author:Lang, MaureenSummary:
18-year-old Meg Davenport is in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man--having been raised in an exclusive prep school--Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy businessman but an accomplished thief....
- Author:Bradley, AlanSummary:
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...
- Author:Rowell, RainbowSummary:
"Euan Morton returns to narrate the final installment in the Simon Snow series. Morton's exceptional talent shines as he modulates between European and American accents and seamlessly shifts tones to bring each distinct...
- Author:Pearson, KitSummary:
Thirteen-year old Polly is following in her sister's footsteps to a boarding school in Victoria. Will her sister's new secret tear her family apart again?
- Author:Harvey, JacquelineSummary:
Soon after arriving at the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies, resourceful seven-and-one-quarter-year-old Alice-Miranda finds her new boarding school to be a very curious establishment with no flowers in the...
- Author:Quain, AmandaSummary:
Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Amanda Quain's Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped...
- Author:Hutchison, DotSummary:
A reimagining of the world and story of Hamlet--from Ophelia's perspective and set in an American boarding school.
- Author:Hale, ShannonSummary:
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, a puppet like Pinocchio; and Madeline Hatter, heir to...