private schools

While playing the traditional "game", Killer Game, at boarding school, Cate and her friends notice that this year it appears to be even more real than in the past.

At Swaziland's Keziah Christian Academy, where the wealth and color of one's father determines one's station, once-popular Adele bonds with poor Lottie over a book and a series of disasters.

Eighteen-year-old Jemima Kincaid is in her final year at Northern Virginia's elite Chawton School and is named to the senior prom committee. As a fierce feminist, she figures this is her chance to upend the school's patriarchal traditions and expose its toxic masculinity. Instead of waiting for the boys to ask the girls, Jemima suggests a website on which everyone enters the names of their secret crushes and the website will pair people as potential matches. However, in the midst of the prom planning, she also begins to recognize some of her own bias. Things become more complicated when she falls for a popular athlete.

Three teenage Victorian-era heroines from literature--Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, and Alice Liddell--meet at a special boarding school called Cheshire Crossing, operated by Dr. Ernest Rutherford, where they are supposed to learn how to harness their magical powers and defeat the villains that threaten their respective fantasy lands. Not content to sit in classrooms, the three begin traversing back and forth across universes, with devastating results. They must then rely on a team of unlikely allies to set things right.

After her father's mysterious death in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Shamiso and her mother move from England to Zimbabwe to be closer to family. At school Shamiso meets a student with a cancer diagnosis and as their friendship deepens, Shamiso finds the strength to try and discover what happened to her father.

"Margot is a junior at Beverly Hills Prep, on a partial scholarship since her parents' divorce. She finds herself entangled with a group of girls who sell designer handbags to their classmates at a highly discounted rate. Eventually Margot ends up in trouble. Her grades are dropping, and with her dad seeing someone new, everything is falling apart. Can she figure things out with her family--and with school--or will she have to start over?"--Back cover.

"Victoria Cambridge is a senior at Beverly Hills Prep, and one of the most popular girls in the school--but she's getting a little tired of putting on the facade of being the mean ice princess. Her real interest is mathematics. She begins to compete with the math team, and excels. She wants to go to a technical college to pursue her dream of being an engineer, but her father has other plans. Can Victoria make him understand? Or will she have to turn away from her passion forever?"--Provided by publisher.

When a mysterious being from Wonderland infects Ever After High with a strange magic, Lizzie Hearts, Cedar Wood, and Madeline Hatter must save their friends from a curse that threatens to give their school and their lives an unhappy ending.

At his boarding school for monsters, a young werewolf learns a devastating truth about his family while uncovering a plot to sabotage the world's finest training program for aspiring minions to evil overlords.

"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--Provided by publisher.