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Author
Publisher
Mira
Physical Desc
458 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Goode girls don't lie...
Perched atop a hill in the tiny town of Marchburg, Virginia, The Goode School is a prestigious prep school known as a Silent Ivy. The boarding school of choice for daughters of the rich and influential, it accepts only the best and the brightest. Its elite status, long-held traditions and honor code are ideal for preparing exceptional young women for brilliant futures at Ivy League universities and beyond. But a stranger...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her troubled sister Shaylee is sent to an elite boarding school called the Academy, a place where several girls have disappeared, Jules gets a teaching position there to keep an eye on Shay and discovers that something evil lurks in the halls.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian's speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core"--
7) Emory's gift
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to rebuild her life, English teacher Maura Shaw comes to Newport Academy, an elite private high school, with her two children, but the ghosts of the past, including her estrangement from her sister, continue to haunt her.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Claudia Morgan is a single parent trying the best that she can, but her four-year-old son, Henry, is a handful. When Claudia hears about a school with an atypical teaching style, she has to visit. The Hawthorne School is good for Henry. But there's something a bit off about the school. When Henry brings home stories of ceremonies in the woods and odd rules, Claudia's instincts tell her that something isn't quite right, and she begins to realize she's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sadie Roper returns to London to rebuild her shattered life, but as she navigates the politics at her daughter's exclusive school and resumes her criminal barrister career with a high-profile case, she attracts the attention of unknown enemies.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 5
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When we Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...
Author
Series
Rizzoli and Isles volume 10
Language
English
Description
Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at isolated Evenson boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.
Author
Series
The wayward children volume 9
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
146 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Bone appetit
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 328 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa in Mississippi, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder when the beauty contest/cook-off's top contender gets poisoned.
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
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.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Saint Ambrose Prep is a place where the wealthy send their children for the best possible education, with teachers and administrators from the Ivy League, and graduates who become future lawyers, politicians, filmmakers, and CEOs. Traditionally a boys-only school, Saint Ambrose has just enrolled one hundred and forty female students for the first time. Even though most of the kids on the campus have all the privilege in the world, some are struggling,...
20) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...