Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
22) The secret box
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.
23) Breaking
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlotte, an outsider at prestigious Weston Preparatory Institute, must decide if she is willing to risk her own safety and sanity to discover the truth about her two best friends' suicides.
24) Bonaparte
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young French boy goes away to school, he and his dog are sad to be separated until they find a way to change the school's rules about dogs.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rory, of Bénouville, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In her second year at Arcanum Training Institute, Ella grapples with fame, unearths a perilous school secret, and faces a mysterious magical illness outbreak, prompting her, alongside Brigit and Jason, to clear her name, while working tirelessly to safeguard the Marvellian realm from impending chaos.
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 2
Language
English
Description
"At Grimrose Académie, the fairy-tale deaths continue. And unless the curse is broken, one of the girls could be next. Nani, Yuki, Ella, and Rory have discovered the truth about the curse that's left a trail of dead bodies at Grimrose. But the four still know nothing of its origins, or how to stop the cycle of doomed fates. And each girl harbors her own secret. One is learning why she was brought to the school. One struggles to keep her new and deadly...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Adele grew up in the shadows--first watching from backstage at her mother's Parisian dance halls, then wandering around the gloomy, haunted rooms of her father's manor. When she's finally sent away to boarding school in London, she's happy to enter the brightly lit world of society girls and their wealthy suitors. Yet there are shadows there, too. Many of the men that try to charm Adele's new friends do so with dark intentions. After a violent assault,...
30) Omar rising
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--
Author
Publisher
Putnam/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At Swaziland's Keziah Christian Academy, where the wealth and color of one's father determines one's station, once-popular Adele bonds with poor Lottie over a book and a series of disasters.
32) How to be true
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her activist parents off fighting for good causes, Edie Berger is sent off to boarding school by her strict grandmother, Odette, and gets a chance to visit Paris, where she has a series of madcap adventures while trying to figure out her place and purpose in the world.
33) How to be brave
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother, the world's leading expert on ducks, goes missing, Calla North must outwit the headmistress at her new boarding school to find her mom, with the help of a few new friends and a motley crew of resourceful nuns.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
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.
36) Accomplished
Author
Series
Georgie Darcy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Georgiana Darcy returns to Pemberley Academy for her junior year, hoping to atone for last year's incident with Wickham by rebuilding her reputation, rejoining the marching band, and setting up her older brother Fitz with his college classmate Lizzie Bennet.
Author
Series
Shades of London volume 2
Publisher
Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After her near-fatal run-in with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Devereaux is back in London to help solve a new string of inexplicable deaths plaguing the city"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
205 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
Author
Series
Grimrose girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Académie. After the mysterious death of their best friend Ariane, the police...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request