private schools

Having become a human terminus--a human who can eliminate ghosts just with a touch--after her encounter with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has teamed up with the Shades, London's premiere, top-secret ghost-fighting squad. Back in London after an extended stay with her parents, Rory is troubled to learn of a new string of murders that seem to be ghost related, and are threatening the whole city.

While spending a year at a boarding school in London, teenager Rory Deveaux of Louisiana witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and sets out to uncover the identity of the mysterious man that police believe to be the prime suspect in a string of brutal murders.

Thirteen-year-old Dinnie finds her world expanding after her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school.

In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is surprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage.

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

Matt Krinsky is sent to boarding school, away from his friends and family, but he is quick to discover that his new classmates are actually zombies and must pretend to be undead in order to survive.

Homicide detective Alex Cross works with Secret Service supervisor Jezzie Flanagan to track down an elusive, murderous, serial kidnapper with multiple personalities after the daughter of a Hollywood actress and son of the Secretary of Treasury are taken, but Cross fears they will not be able to convict the killer even if they manage to bring him into custody.

Rotten School schemer Bernie Bridges is determined that Rotten House will beat Nyce House in the annual talent contest.

In order to hide a bulldog in his no-pets-allowed dorm, scheming fourth-grader Bernie Bridges enrolls his pet as a transfer student.

Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald have been best friends for years, but their friendship is tested when both girls fall for Nate and he is forced to choose between them, even if it means losing his best friends forever.