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Isabel and Cloud

Isabel is having trouble getting along with other students, her teacher, and even her unicorn, Cloud, but another threat to Unicorn Academy brings them back together.

Ava and Star

When the sky berries that unicorns need to survive disappear, Ava and her unicorn, Star, must find more special berries before every unicorn's magic fades away.

Rebelwing

2021
At New Columbia Preparatory Academy in a near-future Washington, D.C., black market smuggler Prudence Wu and friends Anabel, Alex, and Cat become key players in a conflict with the United Continental Confederacy.

A school for brides

a story of maidens, mystery, and matrimony
In the early 1800s, in a remote corner of England with almost no eligible young men, the eight students at the Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy uncover a mystery while learning all the skills necessary to become a good wife.

The dark maidens

Itsumi, the leader of the literature club at the prestigious St. Mary's Academy for Girls, has died. A week after her death, the members of the club gather in her memory. But as they each tell their stories about what happened in the days leading up to Itsumi's death, questions are raised about why and how Itsumi really died.

The assassin game

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.

When the ground is hard

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.

The feminist agenda of Jemima Kincaid

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.

Cheshire Crossing

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.

Hope is our only wing

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.

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