When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937, she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling, " and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.

"Sent to the prestigious boarding school his family has attended for generations, Ben struggles to prove himself at the side of a marginalized roommate before realizing how much the school's realities differ from what he anticipated."--Publisher description.

Beginning with Waverly Academy's annual Halloween ball, Jenny, who is still seeking her mysterious benefactor, watches her own popularity soar as Tinsley's plummets, while Callie finds herself at a Maine "health spa."

"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--

Moira Moriarty calls upon the clever Sherlock Holmes, her brother James's roommate at school, to help solve the mystery of her father's death, leading them to a secret sect, a rare jewel, and a friendship torn asunder.

At a Charlottesville, Virginia, boarding school, fourteen-year-old Laurel realizes that she shares her deceased mother's connection with flowers, but as she begins to learn their ancient language and share it with other students, she discovers powers that are beyond her control.

Toy soldiers: The Regis School (better known as the "Rejects School") is where America's most powerful families send their wayward sons after they've been kicked out of the better prep schools. But faced with certain death at the hands of terrorists, the toughest of the troublemakers surprise the dean with a brilliant and daring plan to save their classmates. December: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and changed the course of...

Steven "Steel" Trapp has been placed in an East Coast boarding school for gifted kids by his FBI agent father. He soon discovers that there's a clubby element of faculty and upperclassmen that is very secretive and protective. To his surprise, his friend Kaileigh arrives at the school, and it isn't long before the two realize that this is not your normal prep school. There are dark forces at play. Foreign agents may have penetrated the school's secrecy...

A tense psychological drama about love and betrayal set at the height of the Civil War. An injured Yankee soldier John McBurney is rescued by a young girl who offers him refuge at her all-girl boarding school in the south. He charms the teachers and students as they nurse him back to health, but his lustful manipulations cause them to spiral into jealous and vengeful rages against him. Feeling trapped, John realizes that his benefactress cannot be...

When Heather starts spending a little too much quality time with Sasha's almost-boyfriend, Jacob, their partnership is put to the ultimate test.