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Author
Series
Wayward children volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late. When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines - a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes. But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A daring rescue in the middle of a snowstorm in this compelling Red Fox Road companion survival story for ages 10 to 14, for fans of Hatchet and The Skeleton Tree. After a family trip turned disastrous when their truck broke down in the middle of an old logging road in Oregon, Francie is now back in British Columbia. People try to make things as "normal" as possible for her, but they don't understand that trying to be normal in your old life that's...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company." There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as...
124) Wandering stars
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found...
125) Briarcliff Prep
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Avi LeBeau juggles navigating her first year at a Historically Black Boarding School with the revelation that her older sister Belle is in an abusive romantic relationship"--
It's fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau's turn to do what everyone in her family has done: leave home to attend Briarcliff Prep--a Historically Black Boarding School (HBBS). And as scared as she is to say goodbye to her parents and move to Georgia, she knows her fearless...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First trade edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 287 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her...
127) True biz: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring and courageous plan: to smuggle her entire school out of Nazi Germany. Anna had read Mein Kampf and knew the terrible danger that Hitler's hate-fueled ideologies posed to her pupils. She knew that to protect them she had to get her pupils to the safety of England.But the safe haven that Anna struggled to create in a rundown manor house in Kent would test her to the limit....
130) Her royal highness
Author
Series
Royals volume 2
Publisher
Putnam/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An American girl goes to an exclusive Scottish boarding school where she becomes the roommate, best friend, and girlfriend of a royal princess.
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.
132) Oligarchy: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in--and be thin--at their all-girls boarding school. It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Natasha finds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Henna loves living with her two papas and cultivating her beloved plants on the tiny island of Earth's End--until Papa Niall grows seriously ill. Now Henna is determined to find a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, even though the search means journeying all the way to St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house seeds of every plant ever grown. At St. Basil's, Henna is surrounded...
134) Black butler: XV
Author
Series
Black butler volume 15
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When students fail to return home from an English boarding school that numbers several elite bloodlines among its student body, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his indomitable butler, Sebastian, infiltrate the lush grounds and stately halls of this distinguished house of learning at Her Majesty's behest. The butler takes on the role of tutor, his master that of student -- parts to which both are more than just a little accustomed. As their dorm lives of...
135) The secret pocket
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food."--
Author
Series
Young Bond series volume 5
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Piecing together information gained while skiing in the Alps, teenaged James Bond returns to Eton College and foils an assassination attempt, then goes on the run across Europe with a beautiful and dangerous Irish girl, Roan.
137) 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.
138) The hand on the wall
Author
Series
Truly Devious volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At Ellingham Academy, three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. Stevie Bell knows who Truly Devious is-- or thinks she does. But David disappeared of his own free will and is up to something. The missing Alice Ellingham and the missing David Eastman. Somewhere in this place of riddles and puzzles there must be answers....
139) The double helix
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Cruz and his friends continue to search for the third piece of the cipher, a mysterious message arrives suggesting that someone close to him is working for Nebula, leaving Cruz unsure of who he can trust.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen and standard versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97, 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little princess: Sara Crewe, the pampered daughter of an Army officer, is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken. The secret garden: A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was...
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