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A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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Misfits volume 01
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Olive Cobin-Zang has . . . issues. And they mostly aren’t her fault. (No, really!) Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So, imagine her doubts when she’s suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school: a former castle turned prison that's now a “reforming arts school”! But nothing could’ve prepared Olive for RASCH (not “rash”). There, she’s lumped with a team of other kids who never...
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Wayward children volume 9
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
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English
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Sophie Smith is a teenage orphan stuck in a boarding school in London, but at night she dreams of Russia and wolves. Then, on a class trip to St. Petersburg, she finds herself and her two friends deliberately separated from the group and whisked off into the silver forest of her dreams, where a mystery awaits.
5) Untouchable
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Private novels. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Although things aren't going as smooth as they should at Easton Academy for Taylor, Kiran, Noelle, and Arianna, they suddenly take a turn for the worse when Josh becomes the main suspect in the murder of Thomas Pearson.
7) Bilgewater
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English
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"originally published in 1977, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater as "one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love." Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private...
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Evers volume 1
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English
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At the elite West Archer Academy, all the students are gifted, but four are exceptional. Though the Evers look twelve, they're actually centuries old, possessing knowledge and talents that make them extraordinary. And boarding school is the perfect cover for their brilliance -- and their secret. It's supposed to be a typical year in the anything-but-typical lives of these "kids" . . . until Ivy Stewart shows up. She resembles an Ever who went missing...
9) Mrs. S
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of "matron." Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body. That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster's wife, a woman who is her polar opposite--an...
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"From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls they carried.... Sissy, born 1961: Sissy's relationship with her beautiful and volatile mother is difficult, even dangerous, but her life is also filled with beautiful things, including a new Christmas present,...
11) Babe in boyland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Natalie, a seventeen-year-old former drama club member who now writes a relationship column for her school newspaper, decides to go undercover as a student at an all-boys boarding school so that she can figure out what guys are really like.
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Littlest Bigfoot volume 03
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In alternating points of view, Alice, Millie, Jessica, and Jeremy must work together when the secret world of the Bigfoot is threatened by someone with a personal vendetta against them"--Title verso page.
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English
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Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy Silas must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife.
"London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather...
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Herbert Reardon novels volume 4
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English
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1930. A body is discovered at Maxstead Court School for Girls and DI Reardon investigates. He finds the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets and schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it is clear that the victim was not who she claimed to be and Reardon is convinced that more than one member of staff is not telling him the truth.
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Arkwell Academy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for "magickind," sixteen-year-old Destiny Everhart feeds on the dreams of others, working with a handsome human student to find a killer.
18) The showdown
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Series
Saddlehill Academy volume 02
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Abby is worried her unmasked blackmailer will expose the one secret she cannot risk getting out, and to make matters worse, the drama is affecting her performance on Beau, putting her place on the team in jeopardy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
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"Left at a New York boarding school by Aunt and Uncle Twice, eleven-year-old Emily finds horrors even greater than those she faced at Sugar Hill Hall, especially after she gets word that her inheritance is lost."
20) Legacy
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Series
Private novels. Main series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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After the death of Cheyenne, Reed is elected the new leader of Billings Hall, but her grip on the social scene is tenuous, as she discovers when Easton is the only prep school not invited to a Legacy party and it falls to her to get them back on the list.
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