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902) Thorn Abbey
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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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Today, it's hard to grasp the casual carelessness and even hostility with which the middle and upper classes once approached the schooling of their daughters. Education, far from being regarded as something that would set a girl up for life, was seen as a handicap which could render her too unattractive for marriage, and with some notable exceptions such as Cheltenham, schools went along with the idea. In 'Terms & Conditions', author Ysenda Maxtone...
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Dark missions of Edgar Brim volume 1
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English
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"Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and he is bullied and ridiculed for his fears. But years later, when sixteen-year-old Edgar finds a journal belonging to his novelist father, he becomes determined...
907) Playing for keeps
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Chestnut Hill volume 4
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English
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Lani must convince her parents not to have her transferred from Chestnut Hill to another school.
908) Mała ksie̜żniczka
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Polish
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Opowieść o dziewczynce, wychowanej w Indiach, która zostaje oddana na londyńską pensję panny Minchin, aby zdobyć gruntowne wykształcenie. Sara jest mądra, piękna i bogata w związku z czym, nazywana jest przez wszystkich księżniczką. Gdy umiera ojciec dziewczynki, jej życie ulega dramatycznej zmianie, zostaje posługaczką, a jedynym jej majątkiem są przyjaciele i czułe serce.
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"Journey into Frances Hodgson Burnett's enchanting and charming tales in this collection of her beloved classics: Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden."--
Cedric Errol is a child living in poverty with his mother in New York City, when all of a sudden, his life is turned upside down. He learns that after the untimely deaths of several distant relatives, he is heir to an enormous estate in England, and has inherited the...
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Little Lucy Snow was meant to be enjoying her first day at the nice elementary school in town; however, a macabre twist of fate sees her enrolled instead at Miss Weaver's Academy for the Scientifically Gifted and Ethically Unfettered -- also known as Hollow Fields. The grim boarding school dedicates itself to raising the next generation of mad scientists and evil geniuses!
912) Hazed
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Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 14
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English
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Frank and Joe investigate a hazing incident at Eagle River Academy which might be connected with a death.
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It is 1940, the time of the Phoney War. Britain stands alone with German invaders waiting across the Channel and an anxious population preparing for the bloody battle ahead. In an isolated girls' boarding school, Judy Randall watches the encroachment of the war with a mixture of fascination and fear. She is sixteen-years-old, an anarchic misfit in an institution which prizes rule-keeping and conformity; a Catholic with a Jewish heritage when anti-Semitism...
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Calypso chronicles volume 1
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English
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Hoping to become more popular at her elegant English boarding school, fifteen-year-old Californian Calypso Kelly invents a fake handsome boyfriend, until she realizes that her wit and skill at fencing may be enough to attract the attention of a real-life handsome prince.
915) My so-called death
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After dying in a cheerleading accident, high school freshman Karen turns into a zombie and enrolls at a boarding school for the undead where she uncovers a murder mystery.
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White rose in bloom volume 1
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English
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Unable to go home for Christmas, Ruby must spend the holidays at her elite European boarding school with Steph, an aloof and beautiful fellow student to whom Ruby becomes increasingly attracted.
917) I am her revenge
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Enrolled at an English boarding school, Vivian targets an innocent senior as part of a revenge plot her manipulative mother devised, but as the plan's set into motion, Vivian starts to uncover secrets so dark and deadly they threaten to unravel the deceptive being that Mother worked so hard to create.
918) Sacrifices
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Shadow grail volume 3
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Spirit, Burke, Muirin, Loch, and Addie, desperate to stop the Shadow Knights from turning the students of Oakhurst Academy into soldiers wielding both weapons and magic, send Muirin to infiltrate the group but soon Spirit is questioning who can--and cannot--be trusted.
920) Shattered blue
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Light trilogy volume 1
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English
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Noa, grieving over the death of her sister, meets Callum, a transfer student to her boarding school, and senses that there is something different about him, Callum is Fae, banished from his world after a loss much like her own. To survive in Noa's world, Callum needs a special human energy, Light, to survive. But he is not the only Fae on the hunt. When Callum is taken, Noa must decide if she will sacrifice everything to save him, even if it means...