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Poor Little Dead Girls

Lizzie Friend · 285 pages

Starting her junior year at an exclusive East Coast girls' boarding school on a lacrosse scholarship, small-town Sadie uncovers a murder mystery after being inducted into a powerful secret society.

Dark AcademiaBoarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages

Boarding SchoolClassismWealthy FamiliesTense and Suspenseful
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The Heirs

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé · 336 pages

Boarding SchoolClassismTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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Hunted For SportClassismTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld · 427 pages

Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate famil

Boarding SchoolClassismWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult
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The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant

Joanna Wiebe · 296 pages

So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christy, a boarding school for the world's wealthiest teens, the hushed truths of this strange, unfamiliar land begin calling to her-sometimes as lulling drumbeats in the night, sometimes as piercing shrieks. One by one, unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is painted across the island or

Boarding SchoolDark AcademiaWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult
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Even in Paradise

Chelsey Philpot · 372 pages

"Seventeen-year-old Charlotte 'Charlie' Ryder, a girl from a working class family whose talent for the arts has gained her entry into the exclusive St. Anne's school, is drawn into the circle of the larger-than-life Julia Buchanan, a former senator's daughter"-- Seventeen-year-old "Charlie" Ryder, a girl from a working-class family, is drawn into the circle of the larger-than-life Julia Buchanan,

Boarding SchoolClassismWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult
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Private

Kate Brian · 227 pages

Boarding SchoolWealthy FamiliesTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The Julian Game

Adele Griffin

In an effort to improve her social status, a new scholarship student at an exclusive girls' school uses a fake online profile to help a popular girl get back at her ex-boyfriend, but the consequences are difficult to handle.

Boarding SchoolClassismTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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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

Boarding SchoolClassismWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult
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The Little Woods

McCormick Templeman

Entering St. Bede's Academy halfway through her junior year, Cally Wood is thrust into the complex social world of the upper echelon, but she is more interested in Iris, a girl whose recent disappearance is similar to that of Cally's own sister ten years earlier.

Dark AcademiaBoarding SchoolYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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The Year of the Gadfly

Jennifer Miller · 374 pages

A budding teen journalist and her enigmatic science teacher separately work to locate and infiltrate a secret society that threatens their elite prep school with a shady tragedy from the past, an event that challenges the student's allegiances.

Dark AcademiaBoarding SchoolYoung AdultSecret Society
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Beastly

Alex Flinn · 320 pages

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright — a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.You think I'm talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It's no deformity, no disease. And I'll stay this way forever — ruined — unless I can break the spell.Yes, the spell, the one the wit

Boarding SchoolWealthy FamiliesClassismYoung Adult
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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,

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulThrillerSecret Society
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Utopia

Ahmed Khaled Towfik · 176 pages

Hunted For SportClassismTense and SuspensefulFirst Person Narrator
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The School for Dangerous Girls

Eliot Schrefer · 341 pages

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultThriller
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Hysteria

Megan Miranda · 326 pages

After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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As I Descended

Robin Talley · 384 pages

Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school s ultimate power couple but one thing stands between them and their perfect future: campus superstar Delilah Dufrey. Golden child Delilah is a legend at exclusive Acheron Academy, and the presumptive winner of the distinguished Cawdor Kingsley Prize. But Delilah doesn t know that Lily and Maria are willing to do anything absolutely anything to unseat Del

Dark AcademiaBoarding SchoolYoung AdultFemale Lead
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The Vault of Dreamers

Caragh M. O'Brien · 425 pages

Rosie Sinclair, who attends an elite arts school where students are contestants on a high stakes reality show, skips her sleeping pill one night and discovers that the school is really a cover-up for the lucrative and sinister practice of dream harvesting.

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultThriller
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Quicksand

Malin Persson Giolito · 501 pages

"A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the novel opens, Maja has spent nine excruciating months in jail awaiting trial. Now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. But how did Maja, the good girl next door w

ClassismWealthy FamiliesTense and SuspensefulThriller
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Morning Glories, Vol. 6: Demerits

Nick Spencer

The Glories and the Truants are haunted by the things they've done and are more lost than they ever were before.

Dark AcademiaBoarding SchoolYoung AdultThriller
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Legacy

C.J. Daugherty · 388 pages

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultThriller
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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

Boarding SchoolClassismWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult
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Perfect

Sara Shepard · 308 pages

In a town where gossip thrives like the ivy that clings to its mansions, where mysteries lie behind manicured hedges and skeletons hide in every walk-in closet, four perfect-looking girls aren't nearly as perfect as they seem. Three years ago, Spencer, Aria, Emily, Hanna, and their best friend Alison were the girls at Rosewood Day School. They clicked through the halls in their Miu Miu flats, tann

Boarding SchoolTense and SuspensefulWealthy FamiliesYoung Adult

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