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Series
Alex Cross volume 1
Language
English
Description
Two nine-year-old children are kidnapped by a teacher from a prestigious Washington day school, and life changes for Deputy Chief of Detectives Alex Cross when he is drawn into the case.
Author
Language
English
Description
When her high-achieving fifteen-year-old daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, litigation lawyer and single mother Kate Baron, leveled by grief, must reconstruct the pieces of Amelia's life to find the truth and vindicate the memory of the daughter whose life she could not save.
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Language
English
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Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name . . . or the only secret he's hiding. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention. That is until the closest person to a true friend Greg has is arrested for the murder. To prove her innocence, Greg will reluctantly emerge from the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can't stand him. Unfortunately, he'll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and...
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a storm strikes at Blackbrook Academy, an elite prep school nestled in the woods of Maine, a motley crew of students--including Beth 'Peacock' Picach, Orchid McKee, Vaughn Green, Sam 'Mustard' Maestor, Finn Plum, and Scarlet Mistry--are left stranded on campus with their headmaster. Hours later, her body is found hanging in the conservatory and it's very clear her death was no suicide. With this group of students who are all hiding something,...
10) Magic for liars
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself."--Provided by publisher.
11) Starling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Champion fencer Mason Starling and the rest of the Gosforth Academy fencing team are trapped inside their school by a ferocious and supernatural storm. Will the apperance of a strange young man who has lost his memory help Mason unravel the mystery of her own destiny?
12) Ace of spades
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At Niveus Private Academy, Devon and Chiamaka are the only students chosen to be Senior Prefects who are also black, which makes them targets for a series of anonymous texts revealing their secrets to the entire student body. Both students were on track toward valedictorian and bright college futures, but this prank quickly turns into a very dangerous game and they are at more than one disadvantage as it looks like things could turn deadly.
Author
Series
Lola Benko treasure hunter volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sent to a private school after multiple brushes with the law, twelve-year-old Lola Benko recruits classmates to help find her archaeologist father, who disappeared while seeking a powerful mythical stone.
Author
Series
Clue mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dramatic and deadly conclusion to the thrilling YA mystery series inspired by the classic board game CLUE! After a tragic accident that forever changed the lives of the Murder Crew-killing one of their own-the students at Blackbrook Academy are just trying to get by. As relationships evolve, strain, and break, Orchid, Green, Scarlett, Mustard, Plum, and Peacock find themselves lost. When the dark secret at the heart of Blackbrook forces its way...
15) The liar society
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
When Kate receives a mysterious e-mail from her dead friend Grace, she must prove that Grace's death was not an accident, but finds that her elite private school holds secrets so big people are willing to kill to protect them.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the academy's secrets and the possibility of changing her own story.
17) All souls
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
As Astra Dell, a senior suffering from cancer, fights for her life in the hospital, her privileged classmates at Siddons, a posh private school in New York City, struggle with their own concerns over boys, teachers, and exams.
Author
Series
Girls with sharp sticks volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved, learning learn to be the best society has to offer for their sponsors and investors. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardians they are obedient young ladies, free from arrogance, defiance, or opinions... until Mena starts to realize that their carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears. Uncovering the dark secrets of what's actually happening -- and who they really...
19) Skippy dies
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After 14-year-old Skippy ends up dead on the floor of a local donut shop, a number of suspects emerge at Skippy's school in Dublin, in a hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hong Kong for her mother's job, Holly-Mei Jones couldn't be happier until she makes a frenemy at school and must use all of her determination, stubbornness, and sparkle to turn her life in this new city into the ultimate adventure.
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