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Series
Alice-Miranda books volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Rehearsing a play with boy cast members from a neighboring school, Alice-Miranda and classmates find the production challenged by rumors of a witch in the woods, squabbles with a new student and a pushy mother's get-rich scheme.
2) Bloomability
Author
Language
English
Description
When her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.
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Series
Language
English
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"Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley -- a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday...
Author
Series
Alice-Miranda books volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
Soon after arriving at the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies, resourceful seven-and-one-quarter-year-old Alice-Miranda finds her new boarding school to be a very curious establishment with no flowers in the gardens, a headmistress that has not been seen for years, and a mysterious stranger that seems to be hiding out on the premises.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To save her father, 12-year-old Henna, a gifted gardener, attends St. Basil's Conservatory, a botanical boarding school rumored to house a legendary, long-extinct plant with miraculous healing powers, and while searching for the seeds, Henna learns to flourish with a little help from her newfound friends.
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Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery, she uses the reward money to send herself to Highcrest Academy, the most exclusive boarding school in the country. The Academy is a hotbed of crime, and soon Friday is investigating everything from disappearing homework to the terrifying Yeti haunting the school swamp. But the biggest mystery yet is Ian Wainscott, the handsomest (and most arrogant) boy in school. Why is Ian out to ruin her?
Author
Series
Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While participating in The Challenge at Briar Academy, Abby and friends learn that their nemesis is using Briar as headquarters for planning an attack, and that The Ghost has inside help.
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
10) Ordinary magic
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
In a world where everyone possesses magical abilities, powerless twelve-year-old Abby, an Ordinary, is sent to a special school to learn how to negotiate a magical world with her unmagical "disability"--and to avoid becoming a victim of kidnappers, carnivores, and goblins ready to prey upon the Ords.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Daphne is off to an exclusive girls' boarding school, where she'll be given a brand-new start after her expulsion. But St. Rita's school for girls is not your ordinary school. And these are certainly not ordinary girls. As it turns out, nothing is quite what you'd expect at St. Rita's. But then she meets Emily Lime, a crime-solving genius, who's looking for a new library assistant. And the book smart Daphne is just the girl for the job. Mystery and...
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When two siblings attend an unusual school, aboard a ship, they make new friends, learn about all things nautical, and become involved in a mystery they feel compelled to help solve"--
13) Omar rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Pakistan.
Author
Series
Friday Barnes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Getting arrested was the last thing Friday expected after solving a mystery at her boarding school. But she has been arrested, and she'd better clear her name fast! Shes got new cases to investigate, like a scandalous quiche bake-off, a decades old mystery buried in her school's backyard, and why the new boy, Christopher, is being so nice to her.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Language
English
Formats
Description
James, an earl's son and bothersome child, may hold the key to saving Cranford Abbey, a dilapidated school where he is sent to be educated, that newly-appointed Abbot Aelian thinks can be saved if he can make cider from the golden apples now being eaten by ravenous unicorns.
Author
Series
Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Abigail is shocked to discover her elite boarding school is really a cover for a huge spy ring, and must undergo Spy Training 101 in order to save her mother, who happens to be the spy ring's top agent.
Author
Series
Misfits volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 6
Language
English
Description
When Asa Pike, a Bloor's Academy student with the ability to change into a beast at dusk, goes missing, twelve-year-old Charlie Bone suspects a new classmate, the magically gifted Dagobert Endless, of foul play.
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