boarding schools

Young Antoinette has lost her father, metaphorically speaking, which means she will not find him in the shop where lost things go: he will never be sitting there among the favorite childhood toys and missing socks and misplaced headphones. Then, "Antsy" finds she has lost herself, literally, and must search through many worlds and doors to escape the shop and discover, as all must, that childhood and innocence cannot be retrieved once they are gone.

"When Sophia unexpectedly receives a mysterious invitation to a special school for horse riders, she begs her mom to let her go. Then she learns that the school is actually Unicorn Academy, where each student is matched with a magical unicorn! Sophia can't wait to discover her destiny and become a Unicorn Rider. But first, she must bond with Wildstar to unlock the unicorn's magical powers"--Provided by publisher.

When twelve-year old Ivy attends West Archer Academy, she is determined to graduate in two years and eventually follow her hero Ruth Bader Ginsberg to the Supreme Court, but after her roommate introduces her to a group of students who are hundreds of years old, she is forced to reexamine her priorities.

"At a secret Manhattan boarding school, the Descendants of the Chinese zodiac have hidden away since the source of their magic--the twelve zodiac statues--was vandalized and lost to time. Thus, a curse befell the Descendants, and they've lived as creatures of darkness . . . until now. When the lost statues suddenly resurface and a powerful student is found dead, all signs point to foul play from the fae. The Descendants finally have the chance to take back what's rightfully theirs and break the curse . . . but the wrath of the fae waits at every turn. One wrong move and the fate of their kind will come crashing down"--Provided by publisher.

After paying more attention to social media and dating than schoolwork, Ji-su's parents ship her off from Seoul to San Francisco. Ji-su will have to navigate a host family, a new city and school, and more dates. As she finds comfort in photography, Ji-su questions if she even wants to find the one.

"A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher while grappling with her first love, adolescent and academic pressures, and mysterious, personal notes"--Provided by publisher.

"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system. In Admissions Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which Kendra credits as playing a role in her career success, as well as the ways the school coddled her--perhaps, she now believes, too much. Through these stories, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture"--Provided by publisher.

"Heidi is settling in at Broomsfield Academy. She and Melanie are trying to get along and Heidi is getting used to her classes, all her new friends, and her very first crush, Hunter! The problem is: Hunter is really popular. How will Heidi get him to notice her? Her friends tell her to just be herself, but that sounds so boring! After all, Heidi is a witch-in-training. What good is having magic if you can't use it? She knows she can find the perfect love spell to make Hunter fall in love with her. What could possibly go wrong?"--.

Best friends Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael, who everyone believes are meant to be, must rely on each other and their lifelong friendship as they confront truths about their identities, relationships and the boys they love.

When transfer student Finch Chamberlin and popular senior Selena St. Clair accidentally wake something terrifying and ancient in the depths of their school, they must work together to stop the horror they unleashed before it consumes the town.