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Enthusiasm

Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr.

Boarding schools, fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations, Musicals

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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car

Boarding schools, Death, fiction, Interpersonal relations, Schools

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The Tequila Worm

Viola Canales

Sofia finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to her family in the barrio community of McAllen, Texas.

Boarding schools, Catholics, Family life, fiction, Mexican Americans

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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and a

19th century, Boarding schools, England, fiction, Great Britain

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The Austere Academy

Lemony Snicket

As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by

Boarding schools, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Humorous stories, Orphans

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Down a Dark Hall

Lois Duncan

Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.

Boarding schools, fiction, Supernatural

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Simon Says

Elaine Marie Alphin

An alienated, aspiring young painter who attends high school at a boarding school for the arts discovers that being true to himself means opening the door to both pain and pleasure.

Artists, Boarding schools, fiction, Identity, Individuality

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Missing the Piano

Adam Rapp

When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Miserables," Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St.

Boarding schools, Coming of age, Family problems, fiction, Military education

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Black Mirror

Nancy Werlin

Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

Boarding schools, fiction, Murder, Private schools, School stories

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And Both Were Young

Madeleine L'Engle

Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in Switzerland until she forms a supportive friendship with the mysterious Paul.

Boarding schools, fiction, Friendship, Schools

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