An English translation of the German novel about Benjamin Lebert, a sixteen-year-old with a disability who has been sent to a remedial boarding school where he embarks on a discovery of life, friends, love, booze, girls, and sex.
In a world where everyone possesses magical abilities, powerless twelve-year-old Abby, an Ordinary, is sent to a special school to learn how to negotiate a magical world with her unmagical "disability"--and to avoid becoming a victim of kidnappers, carnivores, and goblins ready to prey upon the Ords.
Bernie Bridges finds himself caught in a schoolyard battle between the Clucks and the Quacks after his idea to sell t-shirts featuring a popular cartoon character backfires.
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.
Cammie Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston and the two escape a kidnappers' plot using their espionage skills, and when Macey goes on the campaign trail with her father, the vice-presidential nominee, Cammie and other friends use their spy training as part of the security team.
When Hailey Kendrick decides to break the rules for a change, she becomes a partner in crime with an unexpected partner who leaves her to take the fall alone and her formerly perfect life spirals downward.
In an alternate Victorian England, orphan Henry Grim, a servant at an exclusive school, begins a new life when he unexpectedly becomes the first commoner to be accepted at Knightley Academy, a prestigious boarding school for knights.
