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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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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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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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Wake Unto Me

Lisa Cach

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Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth · 640 pages

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Ravencliffe

Carol Goodman · 432 pages

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New Girl

Paige Harbison · 300 pages

Welcome to Manderley Academy I hadn't wanted to go, but my parents were so excited... So here I am, the new girl at Manderley, a true fish out of water. But mine's not the name on everyone's lips. Oh, no. It's Becca Normandy they can't stop talking about. Perfect, beautiful Becca. She went missing at the end of last year, leaving a spot open at Manderley— the spot that I got. And everyone ac

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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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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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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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Our Strange Duet

Erin A. Craig

Christine Daaé is visited by the Opera Ghost. Inspired by “The Phantom of the Opera.” (Ages 12 and up)

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Belladonna

Adalyn Grace · 400 pages

> Nineteen-year-old orphan Signa Farrow confronts Death – and her own deathly powers ­– when she investigates the mysterious murder of a relative at the Thorn Grove estate.

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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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Strange Sweet Song: A Novel

Adi Rule · 323 pages

"Outside Dunhammond Conservatory, there lies a dark forest. And in the forest, they say, lives a great beast called the Felix. But Sing da Navelli never put much faith in the rumors and myths surrounding the school; music flows in her blood, and she is there to sing for real. This prestigious academy will finally give her the chance to prove her worth--not as the daughter of the world-renowned da

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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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Fallen

Lauren Kate · 452 pages

Luce has been sent a school for wierd people. She doesn't really like it there until she find this boy who is pretty hot. Daniel a fallen angle has lived threw centeries but every time he falles for Luce she dies and gets reborn. Luce being as stubern as she is doen't want to believe Daniel. Will she get over her stuberness before its to late? Or will she just die like all those other times s

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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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House of Furies

Madeleine Roux · 416 pages

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Foxglove

Adalyn Grace · 465 pages

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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

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Harry Potter Boxset

J.K. Rowling

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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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