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Wayward children volume 4
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English
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"Every Heart a Doorway racked up comparisons to C. S. Lewis and Lewis Carroll, and the Wayward Children series has delighted and mesmerized readers. This fourth entry tells the origin story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies,...
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Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Emmy's dad disappeared years ago, and with her mother too busy to parent, she's shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England. But right before she leaves, a mysterious box arrives full of medallions and a note reading: These belonged to your father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among the lacrosse sticks, they stumble upon the body of an unpopular games mistress shot through the heart point-blank. The school is thrown into chaos when the cat strikes again. Unfortunately, schoolgirl Julia Upjohn knows too much. In particular, she knows that without Hercule Poirots help, she will be the next...
4) Dark turns
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English
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"Nia Washington is an incredibly talented ballerina. She fought her way up from the streets and was nearing the pinnacle of her profession when an injury and a broken heart derailed her career. Taking a temporary job at an elite boarding school was supposed to give her time to nurse both body and soul. It was supposed to be a safe place to launch a triumphant comeback. It is anything but. Shortly after she arrives at the beautiful lakeside campus,...
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English
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How far would you go to uncover the truth? One spring night in 1998, the beautiful Cressida Strauss plunges from a fourth-floor balcony at the Lycée Internationale Suisse with catastrophic consequences. Loath to draw negative publicity to the school, a bastion of European wealth and glamor, officials quickly dismiss the incident as an accident, but questions remain: Was it a suicide attempt? Or was Cressida pushed? It was no secret that she had a...
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Children of exile volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
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English
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"Finding the truth seems impossible when her own dark past has her seeing lies everywhere she looks... From the outside, criminal psychiatrist Dr. Madeline Pine's life appears picture-perfect--she has a beautiful family, a successful mental health practice and a growing reputation as an expert in female violence. But when she's called to help investigate a mysterious death at a boarding school for troubled girls, Madeline hesitates. She's been through...
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English
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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Before returning to Wellsworth, twelve-year-old Emmy receives a letter from her father telling her to trust no one, but the Order is up to no good and she will need help to stop them.
11) Very bad people
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English
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"Six years ago Calliope Bolan's mother drove the family van into a lake with her three daughters inside. The girls escaped; their mother drowned. The truth behind the "accident" remains a mystery. Transferred to Tipton Academy, the elite boarding school her mother once attended, Calliope is invited to join Haunt and Rail, an exclusive secret society that looms over campus like a legend. She enters the world of the "ghosts," a society fighting for...
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English
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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 has a dark underbelly: of privileged kids running unchecked and uninhibited; of rituals and traditions that are more sinister than they seem; of wealth and...
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At an exclusive East Coast boarding school, when seventeen-year-old sophisticated troublemaker Zoey Spalding plays a game with the class list--if you lose your virginity you get a star by your name--it sets in motion a chain of shocking events that leads to murder.
14) Not my blood
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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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Series
Wayward children volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children ... Jacqueline was her mother's perfect daughter--polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it's because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline. Jillian was her father's perfect daughter--adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would...
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Wayward children volume 3
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English
Description
"Beneath the Sugar Sky returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world. Sumi died years before her prophesied daughter Rini could be born. Rini was born anyway, and now she's trying to bring her mother back from a world without magic"--Provided by publisher.
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One summer day, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Alistair Calloway, vanished from the family's lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions. Years later, seventeen-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at...
18) Hell and back
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"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
19) The murder game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
When someone attempts to frame his best friend for murder at St. Benedict's boarding school, junior Luke Chase starts investigating on his own and discovers multiple suspects with darks secrets in their past.
20) Hero complex
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When her unrequited love's grandfather, Reed Hutchins, entrusts Devon, a peer counselor at a prestigious California boarding school, with a mysterious diary--days before he dies--Devon fights to piece together the final clues to what haunts the Keaton School: the truth Reed's enemies are still willing to kill for.
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