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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
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Series
Misfits (Lisa Yee) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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An elite group of underdogs trained to fight crime must save their unique school from shutting down
3) Omar rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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"Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding school"--
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Series
Magic kitten volume 7
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A magic kitten helps Olivia combat the jealousy of her ballet school classmates
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy Silas must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife
6) Slingshot
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Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Grace Welles is barely surviving life at a third-tier boarding school in the Florida swamps when she accidentally saves new student Wade Scholfield and everything changes
7) Crave
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Grace's world changed when she joined the academy. At the academy she is a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She can't decide which faction she should join, or if she should join any of them. The one thing that unites them is their hatred of her. Then there's Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. Jaxon has walled himself off for a reason. Does someone want to wake the sleeping monster in him? Is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When Ruby flees Hollywood to escape the fame of her parents, she tells a lie that could ruin the life she loves at her new boarding school in this M!X novel about courage, families, and finding your own spotlight
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The Evil Queen has been trapped in mirror prison for a long time so she has decided to put her time to bad use by writing to her daughter, Raven Queen. Can she convince Raven to embrace her true destiny and to celebrate her evil heritage?
10) How to be brave
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Language
English
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When her mother, the world's leading expert on ducks, goes missing, Calla North must outwit the headmistress at her new boarding school to find her mom, with the help of a few new friends and a motley crew of resourceful nuns
11) Night out
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Newly-arrived at boarding school, a boy finds an invitation and goes on an adventure that may lead to friendship.--Provided by Publisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He's been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen. But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and...
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Series
Onyeka volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun
Author
Series
Wells & Wong mysteries volume 1
Murder most unladylike mystery volume 1
Wells and Wong mysteries volume 1
Wells and Wong mystery volume 1
Murder most unladylike mystery volume 1
Wells and Wong mysteries volume 1
Wells and Wong mystery volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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At an English boarding school in the 1930s, crime-solving friends Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells struggle to find an exciting mystery to investigate and hit pay-dirt when Hazel discovers the dead body of Miss Bell, the science teacher
Author
Series
Unicorn Academy. Original series volume 11
Language
English
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Violet, Twinkle, and their friends embark on an adventure across a frozen lagoon, but this fun outing takes a sinister turn impelling Twinkle to discover her magic so she can lead them to a daring rescue
18) Chasing blue
Author
Series
Canterwood Crest. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin M!X
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Heather starts spending a little too much quality time with Sasha's almost-boyfriend, Jacob, their partnership is put to the ultimate test
Author
Series
Araminta Spookie volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When strange moans and clanks echo down the halls of her boarding school, junior detective Araminta is determined to solve the mystery
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Originally published: London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2018, as Children of Castle Rock
Eleven-year-old Alice Mistlethwaite persuades her boarding school friends, Jesse and Fergus, to set out on an off-the-grid adventure in which they face storms, illness, injury, and international jewel thieves
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