private schools

When her high-achieving daughter Amelia supposedly commits suicide after she is caught cheating, lawyer and single mother Kate Baron must reconstruct the pieces of her daughter's life to find the truth and vindicate her memory.

Explores the controversial issue of private and for-profit schools versus public education, including how the privatization approach operates, how it is succeeding, and how it is failing.

"Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!"--Amazon.com.

Yumi and her cat Kansuke confront a dangerous situation when Spirit Beasts infiltrate Matabi Academy, inhabiting the bodies of students and teachers.

Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has tried to resist, including change.

In their second term at the Royal Ballet School, Ellie and her friends prepare for an important appraisal of their dancing while also trying to get along with Isabelle, an unfriendly new girl.

Maisie sets out to uncover the true identity of the new lodger at her gran's boarding house and uncovers a more complicated - and dangerous - mystery than she could have imagined.

After his mother dies, Jack Baker is sent to a boys' boarding home in Maine where he meets an unusual boy named Early Auden. Drawn to Early for reasons he can't explain, Jack joins him on a quest to find a legendary black bear in the nearby mountains, a quest that will test their friendship and reveal new truths about one another.

After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.

Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy and he quickly learns that the school is populated with students and faculty that are kind of odd. He and his new friends, Clark and Diana, become determined to solve the mystery of what is going on at this strange school.