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Cheshire Crossing

Three teenage Victorian-era heroines from literature--Wendy Darling, Dorothy Gale, and Alice Liddell--meet at a special boarding school called Cheshire Crossing, operated by Dr. Ernest Rutherford, where they are supposed to learn how to harness their magical powers and defeat the villains that threaten their respective fantasy lands. Not content to sit in classrooms, the three begin traversing back and forth across universes, with devastating results. They must then rely on a team of unlikely allies to set things right.

Hope is our only wing

After her father's mysterious death in a car accident, fifteen-year-old Shamiso and her mother move from England to Zimbabwe to be closer to family. At school Shamiso meets a student with a cancer diagnosis and as their friendship deepens, Shamiso finds the strength to try and discover what happened to her father.

Dr. Critchlore's school for minions

At his boarding school for monsters, a young werewolf learns a devastating truth about his family while uncovering a plot to sabotage the world's finest training program for aspiring minions to evil overlords.

Ms. Rapscott's girls

"At Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students How to Get Lost on Purpose, resulting in a series of fantastical adventures that makes each learn a little something about courage, strength, bravery, and teamwork"--Provided by publisher.

The murder game

2021
When someone attempts to frame his best friend for murder at St. Benedict's boarding school, junior Luke Chase starts investigating on his own and discovers multiple suspects with darks secrets in their past.
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Covet

Grace may have reached her breaking point. As if trying to graduate from a school of supernaturals isn't stressful enough, her relationship status has gone from complicated to a straight-up dumpster fire. And the Bloodletter has decided a drop a bomb of epic proportions. Then again, when has anything at Katmere Academy not been intense? And the hits just keep coming. Jaxon has turned colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle is splintered over Grace's upcoming coronation. As if things couldn't get worse, now there's an arrest warrant for Hudson's and Grace's supposed crimes, which apparently means a lifetime prison sentence with a deadly, unbreakable curse. Choices will have to be made, and Grace fears not everyone will survive.
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A lesson in vengeance

2021
Felicity Morrow returns to the Dalloway School after her girlfriend's tragic death, only to meet Ellis Haley--a new student and a teenage literary prodigy--who enlists Felicity's help in researching the school's bloody, occult history for her new book.
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City of dragons

2021
"When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight. The dragon has immense powers that Grace has yet to understand. And that puts them both in danger from mysterious forces intent on abusing the dragon's power. And now it's up to Grace and her school friends to uncover the sinister plot threatening the entire city!"--Provided by publisher.
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Astronaut Academy

2021
When Hakata Soy returns to the Astronaut Academy for spring semester, he discovers that someone is literally stealing the hearts of students.

Don't breathe a word

2021
After joining the school's elite secret society, Eva gets curious on the secrets the Fives are hiding about the school. Sixty years earlier, Connie and five other students volunteer to test the school's nuclear fallout shelter. However, Connie and the other students quickly discover there is more to the test than they thought, as they are forced to follow a series of commands that start to get deadly. Separated by sixty years, Eva and Connie's stories become intertwined as Eva discovers the mystery of how six students went into the fallout shelter, but only five came out.

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