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Julia "Jules" Farentino, disturbed by nightmares since the murder of her father, applies for a teaching job at Blue Rock Academy, where her half-sister Shaylee had been sent after running into problems with the law, but when Jules arrives, a series of murders and strange occurrences make her wonder if she is in danger.
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Children of the Red King volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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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Children of the Red King volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When an ancient enchanter is released from the grounds of Bloor's Academy, threatening both of Charlie Bone's parents, the only way Charlie and his friends can defeat him is by finding the red king himself.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 12
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English
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Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl has lately become the target of a series of vicious and anonymous racial attacks -- and Faith is determined to put an end to the injustice. But Mansfield, she finds, is a seething cauldron of secrets,...
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Rotten School volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Bernie Bridges, the egotistical planner and schemer for a group of fourth-graders at The Rotten School, is determined to outsmart his rival in a pie-eating contest.
8) Ghost knight
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft and new friend Ella summon the ghost of Sir William Longspee, who may be able to protect Jon from a group of ghosts that threatens him harm from the day he arrives at Salisbury Cathedral's boarding school. Includes historical notes.
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.
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Children of the Red King volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Magically-gifted Charlie Bone, accompanied by his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, comes to the rescue when the enchanter Count Harken takes revenge on the Red King's heirs by kidnapping and imprisoning Charlie's ancestors in the dark, forbidding land
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Rotten School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Rotten School's bad boy, Bernie B., is trying to turn over a new leaf in order to date the prettiest girl in school, but he may trip over his own slime trail.
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Little school by the sea volume 2
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English
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It's summer, but school is in session in the delightful second book of New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan's utterly charming School by the Sea series, set at a girls' boarding school in Cornwall. For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair's first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she's...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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At Ever After High, a boarding school for the sons and daughters of famous fairy-tale characters, students Apple White and Raven Queen face the moment when they must choose whether to follow their destinies, or change them.
14) The lying game
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Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen...
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English
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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.
16) Wandering stars
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
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Flavia De Luce mysteries volume 7
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English
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"Flavia de Luce--"part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (The New York Times Book Review)--takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Alan Bradley"--
"Flavia rules! In this New York Times bestselling series of enchanting mysteries, youthful chemist and aspiring...
18) Hell and back
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Series
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English
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What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
20) Finding Hattie
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.
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