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Little men

life at Plumfield with Jo's boys
1994
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

A little princess

2005
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. Includes review questions.

A little princess

2007
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. Includes study guide.

Bonaparte

2000
When a young French boy goes away to school, he and his dog are sad to be separated until they find a way to change the school's rules about dogs.

The last academy

Fourteen-year-old Camden Fisher arrives at a boarding school after a falling-out with her best friend, but Lethe Academy is a strange place, where students disappear suddenly, and as she searches for answers Camden begins to fear what she will find.

The little woods

2012
Entering St. Bede's Academy halfway through her junior year, Cally Wood is thrust into the complex social world of the upper echelon, but she is more interested in Iris, a girl whose recent disappearance is similar to that of Cally's own sister ten years earlier.

The bad apple

2012
After accidentally killing a substitute teacher with an apple, twelve-year-old Seamus Hinkle is sent to Kilter Academy where, in order to excel as he always has, he must behave badly and pull pranks on his teachers, but along with new friends Lemon and Elinor he discovers that there is more to the Academy than meets the eye.

Dark mirror

2011
When sixteen-year-old Lady Victoria is discovered to have magic powers, she is banished to a reform school where she falls in with rebellious students who have pledged to protect England from conquest. Using her full powers, Victoria and the others are led into a dangerous and challenging world.

Sidekicks

the transfer student
2003
Terry Highland, daughter of an ex-superhero sidekick, transfers to a school full of "superteens" and sets out to learn the identity of three rebels known as Pow, Biff, and Bam, who are causing a commotion by breaking the school's cardinal rule: no using special powers on campus.

Gunnerkrigg Court

Materia
2013
Antimony Carver and her best friend Kat learn more about their eccentric school, Gunnerkrigg Court, and Annie and her fellow Mediums In Training learn there is more to their powers than they first thought.

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