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Hex Hall

Rachel Hawkins · 336 pages

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Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Ally Carter · 272 pages

Secret SocietyBoarding SchoolFemale FriendshipTeen Protagonist
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Threadneedle

Cari Thomas · 576 pages

Secret SocietyFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistComing of Age
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Blue Bloods

Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages

De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula

Secret SocietyBoarding SchoolTeen ProtagonistFemale Friendship
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Princess Academy

Shannon Hale · 314 pages

Boarding SchoolFemale FriendshipComing of AgeYoung Adult
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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

Boarding SchoolComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Tempted

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 352 pages

After Zoey Redbird and her gang have banished Kalona and Neferet, the fallen High Priestess, from Tulsa, you’d think they’d catch a break. But with Zoey and her sexy Warrior Stark both recovering from a brush with death, and the fledglings struggling to deal with the fallout from Neferet’s reign of terror, a break is just not in the forecast. Zoey is haunted by her confusing yet elemental connec

Boarding SchoolFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistSecret Society
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Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

Matsuri Hino · 200 pages

Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of Cross Academy. Their duty is to protect the school's secret that the night class is full of vampires and to protect the day class from the night class. Yuki believes that vampires and humans can coexist peacefully but Zero has other ideas.

Secret SocietyBoarding SchoolTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett · 224 pages

This is a story about a different kind of princess than one might imagine; a princess that is an orphan - lonely, cold, hungry and abused. Sara Crewe begins life as the beloved, pampered daughter of a rich man. When he dies a pauper, she is thrown on the non-existent mercy of her small-minded, mercenary boarding school mistress. Stripped of all her belongings but for one set of clothes and a doll,

Boarding SchoolVictorian EraFemale FriendshipComing of Age
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Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare · 489 pages

When Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother in Victorian England, something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld. Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium club, Tessa soon learns that she has the power to transform into another person. The Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the club, will stop at nothing t

Secret SocietyVictorian EraTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Dream a Little Dream

Kerstin Gier · 337 pages

Liv Silver, fifteen, has lived in six countries in eight years and she and her sister yearn for a real home and normalcy, but soon after moving in with her mother's boyfriend in London, Liv's dreams turn bizarre, filled with talking stone statues, mysterious corridors, and strange rituals conducted by four boys who happen to be her new classmates.

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Evernight

Claudia Gray · 336 pages

Bianca wants to escape. She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns B

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Legacies

Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill · 320 pages

After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.

Boarding SchoolSecret SocietyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Sabriel

Garth Nix · 368 pages

Ever since she was a tiny child, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. Though her journey begins alone, she soon finds companions: Mogget, whose seemingly harmless feline form hides a p

Coming of AgeBoarding SchoolTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Sandry's Book

Tamora Pierce · 95 pages

Four young misfits find themselves living in a strictly disciplined temple community where they become friends while also learning to do crafts and to use their powers, especially magic.

Female FriendshipBoarding SchoolTeen ProtagonistComing of Age
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Grave Mercy

Robin LaFevers · 549 pages

*Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?* Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassi

Secret SocietyComing of AgeTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Sloppy Firsts

Megan McCafferty · 297 pages

When her best friend moves away, sixteen-year-old Jessica is devastated and finds it difficult to deal with the girls at school, her obsessive parents, and her lack of a love life.

Boarding SchoolFemale FriendshipComing of AgeTeen Protagonist
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Half-Blood

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Boarding SchoolSecret SocietyTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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The School for Good and Evil

Soman Chainani · 496 pages

**A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure perfect for those who prefer their fairytales with a twist. The first in the bestselling School for Good and Evil series.** Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. With her

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Etiquette & Espionage

Gail Carriger · 256 pages

Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners -- and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what h

Boarding SchoolVictorian EraTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Vampire Academy

Richelle Mead · 352 pages

St. Vladimir's Academy isn't just any boarding school-it's a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They've been on the run, but now they're being dragged back to St. Vladimir's-the very place where they're most in danger...Rose and Lissa b

Boarding SchoolFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

Louise Rennison · 247 pages

Presents the humorous journal of a year in the life of a fourteen-year-old British girl who tries to reduce the size of her nose, stop her mad cat from terrorizing the neighborhood animals, and win the love of handsome hunk Robbie.

Boarding SchoolFemale FriendshipTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Anne of Avonlea

L.M. Montgomery

Female FriendshipVictorian EraTeen ProtagonistComing of Age

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