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Thorn Abbey

Nancy Ohlin · 295 pages

When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max but Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, Becca, and Becca's ghost is not quite ready to let him go.

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Gothikana

Runyx

An unusual girl. An enigmatic man. An ancient castle. What could go wrong? An outcast her entire life, Corvina Clemm is left adrift after losing her mother. When she receives the admission letter from the mysterious University of Verenmore, she accepts it as a sign from the universe. The last thing she expects though is an old, secluded castle on top of a mountain riddled with secrets, deceit,

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RoseBlood

A.G. Howard · 428 pages

Rune Germaine moves to a boarding school outside of Paris, only to discover that at this opera-house-turned-music-conservatory, phantoms really do exist. RoseBlood is a Phantom of the Opera inspired retelling in which Rune s biggest talent her voice is also her biggest curse.

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Rebel Angels

Libba Bray · 548 pages

Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma's visions intensify--visions o

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Betrayal

Gillian Shields

Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil.

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Awakened

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 304 pages

Exonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa's House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. Dominion over Kalona is only one of the weapons she plans to use against Z. But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. Being Queen would be cool, wouldn't it? Why should she r

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A Wounded Name

Dot Hutchison · 320 pages

A reimagining of the world and story of Hamlet--from Ophelia's perspective and set in an American boarding school.

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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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Blythewood

Carol Goodman · 489 pages

"After a summer locked away in a mental institution, seventeen-year-old orphan Ava Hall is sent to Blythewood, a finishing school for young ladies that is anything but ordinary"--

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A World Without Princes

Soman Chainani · 433 pages

When Agatha wishes she'd chosen a different Happy Ending, she accidentally reopens the gates to the School for Good and Evil. But when the girls return, they notice that the world they knew has changed. Witches and princesses reside at the School for Girls, where they've been inspired to live a life without princes, while Tedros and the boys are camping in Evil's old towers. A war is brewing betwe

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The Moth Diaries

Rachel Klein · 256 pages

"To anyone who wonders whether it is possible to survive adolescence, this is as much as I can offer of reassurance. So begins Rachel Klein's dark and disturbing first novel. Told through the pages of a sixteen-year-old girl's journal, The Moth Diaries is an unsettling and provocative portrait of obsession and fear.". "In the hothouse atmosphere of an exclusive girls' boarding school during the

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Wake Unto Me

Lisa Cach

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Dark Companion

Marta Acosta · 368 pages

Brought back to life and orphaned at the age of six, Jane Williams grows up in a series of foster homes and wins a scholarship to the exclusive Birch Grove Academy, where dark secrets abound.

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The Revenant

Sonia Gensler · 322 pages

When seventeen-year-old Willemina Hammond fakes credentials to get a teaching position at a school for Cherokee girls in nineteenth-century Oklahoma, she is haunted by the ghost of a drowned student.

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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.

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Villette

Charlotte Bronte

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Notorious

Cecily von Ziegesar · 275 pages

Popular Gossip Girl character Jenny Humphrey is making a splash at Waverly Academy, an elite boarding school in New York horse country where glamorous rich kids don't let the rules get in the way of an excellent time.It's less than a week into school, but Jenny's already been caught with her roommate's boyfriend (in bed!), flashed the whole school at a field hockey game, and gone up against the Di

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Frost

Marianna Baer

When Leena Thomas gets her wish to live in an old Victorian house with her two closest friends during their senior year at boarding school, the unexpected arrival of another roommate--a confrontational and eccentric classmate--seems to bring up old anxieties and fears for Leena that may or may not be in her own mind.

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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

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The Heirs

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé · 336 pages

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Foxglove

Adalyn Grace · 465 pages

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Twilight / Life and Death

Stephenie Meyer · 387 pages

Collects the novel in which Bella, moving in with her father, meets a boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not human, and a full-length reimagining of the original story. "Celebrate the tenth anniversary of Twilight with this special double-feature book! This new edition pairs the classic love story with Stephenie Meyer's bold and surprising

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Legacy

C.J. Daugherty · 388 pages

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Mind Games

Kiersten White

"Seventeen-year-old Fia and her sister, Annie, are trapped in a school that uses young female psychics and mind readers as tools for corporate espionage--and if Fia doesn't play by the rules of their deadly game, Annie will be killed"--Provided by pub.

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