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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

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsHorrorLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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The Dreaming, Vol. 3

Queenie Chan

Where dreams turn into living nightmares...Where did the ghostly girls come from? And what do they want? Before the students know it, the missing girls enter the school, where Amber spots Millie, who speaks to her almost as if to warn her of something. Is there more to this supernatural mystery than just the school itself? The answers to why these girls have come back and what caused their death a

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsGraphic Novel & MangaHorror
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Heartstopper

Alice Oseman · 336 pages

Boarding SchoolBullyingGraphic Novel & MangaLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth · 640 pages

Boarding SchoolHorrorGhosts & HauntingsLGBTQ+ Protagonist
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The War at Ellsmere

Faith Erin Hicks

Boarding SchoolBullyingGraphic Novel & MangaYoung Adult
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Say Her Name

James Dawson, Juno Dawson · 284 pages

Roberta 'Bobbie' Rowe is not the kind of person who believes in ghosts. A Halloween dare at her ridiculously spooky boarding school is no big deal, especially when her best friend Naya and cute local boy Caine agree to join in too. They are ordered to summon the legendary ghost of 'Bloody Mary': say her name five times in front of a candlelit mirror, and she shall appear ... But, surprise surprise

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsHorrorYoung Adult
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Black Hole

Charles Burns · 368 pages

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s not turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have

Boarding SchoolGraphic Novel & MangaBullyingHorror
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The Name of the Star

Maureen Johnson · 400 pages

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsHorrorYoung Adult
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Mortal Danger

Ann Aguirre · 388 pages

Agreeing to join the mysterious Kian's magical faction to exact revenge on a group of bullies who have tormented her, Edie transforms into a beautiful girl and begins to sabotage the bullies' inner circle only to discover dark truths about Kian's world. Edie is being bullied, and she's come to the end of her rope, until mysterious Kian shows up to make her dreams come true if she signs an agreeme

Boarding SchoolBullyingYoung AdultRevenge Plot
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Skim

Mariko Tamaki · 146 pages

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with he

Boarding SchoolGraphic Novel & MangaLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Burn for Burn

Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian · 368 pages

BullyingBoarding SchoolYoung AdultRevenge Plot
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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

BullyingBoarding SchoolLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Ghost Hunt, Vol. 2

Shiho Inada, Fuyumi Ono · 208 pages

Graphic Novel & MangaHorrorGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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Christine

Stephen King · 503 pages

A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly.

BullyingGhosts & HauntingsHorrorRevenge Plot
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Down a Dark Hall

Lois Duncan · 181 pages

Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsHorrorYoung Adult
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Hana-Kimi, Vol. 1

Hisaya Nakajo · 184 pages

Boarding SchoolGraphic Novel & MangaLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Bizenghast, Volume 1

M. Alice LeGrow

A young girl named Dinah has just moved to the forgotten town of Bizenghast following the deaths of her parents. There, she encounters the lost souls of the residents of Bizenghast. She and her new friend Vincent must help free these souls before time runs out or Dinah will die.

Graphic Novel & MangaHorrorGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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Anya's Ghost

Vera Brosgol · 221 pages

Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost for a friend.

Ghosts & HauntingsGraphic Novel & MangaHorrorYoung Adult
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Possessions

Nancy Holder

The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn't help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dila

Boarding SchoolGhosts & HauntingsHorrorYoung Adult
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Runaways: Battleworld

Noelle Stevenson, Jeremy Whitley, Marguerite Bennett

"Final exams are looming at Battleworld's Institute for Gifted Youths, a prestigious school in the planet's capital. But the new class doesn't react so well when they discover that the school's beloved headmaster is actually a diabolical super villain...and their final exam is a brutal deathmatch between students! Faced with harsh lessons and an even harsher truth, the students take to the road--a

Boarding SchoolGraphic Novel & MangaLGBTQ+ ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Midnight Alley

Rachel Caine · 245 pages

Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

BullyingHorrorGhosts & HauntingsYoung Adult
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The List

Siobhan Vivian · 333 pages

Every year at Mount Washington High School somebody posts a list of the prettiest and ugliest girls from each grade--this is the story of eight girls, freshman to senior, and how they are affected by the list.

BullyingBoarding SchoolYoung AdultFemale Lead

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