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Book Cover The Poison Apples
By Archer, Lily
2007/09 - Feiwel & Friends
9780312367626 Find in the Library

Three girls have something in common with their fairytale sisters--they are the stepdaughters of three very evil stepmothers. They think they are alone in their unhappiness until they arrive at a posh boarding school in Massachusetts, where they will plot their revenge. But first, they have to meet.

Book Cover A Great and Terrible Beauty
By Bray, Libba
2005/03 - Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers
9780385732314 Find in the Library

It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls--and their foray into the spiritual world--lead to?

"From the Hardcover edition.

Book Cover Private
By Brian, Kate
2006/07 - Simon Pulse
9781416918738 Find in the Library

One of the most infamous characters from Brian's Private series spins off into her own dark world of privilege. After the death of Thomas Pearson, Ariana Osgood is safely locked away in a mental institution. But she will stop at nothing to break out and rejoin the world of the wealthy.

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The Upper Class
By Brown, Hobson
Materne, Taylor
Says, Caroline
2007/06 - Harperteen
9780060850821 Find in the Library

Welcome to Wellington Boarding school for society's elite, overachievers, and rich screwups. From three graduates of the prestigious Hotchkiss School comes a gripping novel about what high school is like without a safety net--terrifying one minute, glorious the next--and what it takes to succeed, stay sane, and survive.

Book Cover I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
By Carter, Ally
2007/04 - Hyperion Books
9781423100041 Find in the Library

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls' school--except that it's a school for spies. Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but she's also beginning her most dangerous mission--she's falling in love. Hyperion Books for Children/Miramax Books

Book Cover The Principles of Love
By Franklin, Emily
2005/07 - New American Library
9780451215178 Find in the Library

Love Bukowski--her real name--begins her first year at prep school with few friends and even fewer opportunities to explore her namesake. Unless that hot senior takes notice of her.

Book Cover Looking for Alaska
By Green, John
2008/08 - Puffin Books
9780142412213 Find in the Library

"Before," Miles aPudgea Halteras whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into a new life, and steals his heart. "After," Nothing is ever the same. The Printz Awardawinning modern classic is now available in the successful Premium Edition format with a bonus reading guide and a letter from John Green.

Book Cover New Boy
By Houston, Julian
2008/01 - Graphia Books
9780618884056 Find in the Library

A young African-American boy discovers the world--and himself--when he integrates an all-white boarding school in the 1950s.

Book Cover Those Girls
By Lawrence, Sara
2007/10 - Sleuth RazorBill
9781595141699 Find in the Library

Jinx Slater and Liberty Latiffe are lovely, rich, and wild 17-year-olds at the exclusive Stagmount School for Girls. They have the glittery seaside town of Brighton and an endless flow of cash at their fingertips. Nothing can slow them down in their pursuit of fun. Then snobby new girl Stella Fox shows up and naive Liberty falls under her spell.

Book Cover The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
By Lockhart, E.
2008/03 - Hyperion
9780786838189 Find in the Library

The acclaimed author of "Dramarama" and "The Boy Book" now delivers a story about a girl who goes from being mildly geeky to a teenage knockout to--a criminal mastermind?

Book Cover Brother Hood
By McDonald, Janet
2004/09 - Farrar Straus Giroux
9780374309954 Find in the Library

The award-winning author of "Chill Wind" pens a provocative story about a young man from Harlem who attends a prestigious prep school in upstate New York.

Book Cover Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn
By Miller, Sarah
2007/05 - St. Martin's Griffin
9780312333768 Find in the Library

Miller's narrator gets inside the head of her beloved Gideon Rayburn, an adorably clueless boy who flukes his way into one of the fanciest New England prep schools. One hysterically funny girl is savoring Gideon's every thought. But who is she?

Book Cover Enthusiasm
By Shulman, Polly
2007/09 - Puffin Books
9780142409350 Find in the Library

A first-time novelist pens a Jane Austen-inspired romantic comedy of errors as two girls get a part in the boys' school musical. What follows is a series of misinterpreted--and missed--signals, dating mishaps, and awkward incidents. This edition includes a discussion guide.

Book Cover The It Girl
By Von Ziegesar, Cecily
2005/11 - Little Brown and Company
9780316011853 Find in the Library

Jenny Humphrey, a popular character from von Ziegesar's bestselling Gossip Girl series, is leaving Constance Billard to attend the elite Waverly Academy, located in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time. Jenny's determined to leave her crazy Manhattan past behind and become a sophisticated goddess on campus.

Book Cover Black Mirror
By Werlin, Nancy
2003/04 - Puffin Books
9780142500286 Find in the Library

Frances's brother, Daniel, has committed suicide, and she can't help thinking that it's somehow her fault. It's time to reach out to Daniel's friends at Unity Service, the charitable group at their school. However, something's not quite right about Unity, and soon Frances finds herself in the middle of a puzzle too ominous to ignore.