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The official preppy handbook

1980
The first guide to the preppy tradition, mannerisms, etiquette, dress codes, and family.

Dead Poets Society

2006
Passionate English teacher John Keating challenges his students at the exclusive Welton Academy to live life to the fullest, and their efforts to take his message to heart change their lives forever.

Chosen #3

A House of Night Novel
2008
Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead.

Openly straight

2013
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.

Lucky fools

2012
Eighteen-year-old David Ellison, a senior at Oak Fields Preparatory School which is only a few miles away from the Stanford University campus, tries to reconcile his desire to attend Juillard instead of an Ivy League university as is expected of him, while also wondering why he seems dissatisfied with his long-term girlfriend after being cast opposite an interesting new student in the school play.

A touch of Scarlet

As events within Emma Townsend's life begin to take their toll, she finds her experiences beginning to mirror the plot of "The Scarlet Letter," which she has just begun reading. As she attempts to discover what is going on, she must make a choice that will decide her future.

Another Faust

2009
Years after five children mysteriously disappeared from cities across Europe, they reappear at an exclusive party in New York City under the tutelage of a suspicious benefactor, but their unique gifts--reading minds, stopping time, seducing with false beauty, and more--begin to bring them more consequences then benefits.

The Paladin prophecy

A fifteen-year-old boy who has spent his entire life trying to avoid attention finds himself in the middle of a millennia-old struggle between titanic forces when he is simultaneously recruited by an exclusive prep school and followed by sinister agents.

Epic fail

2011
In this modern take on "Pride and Prejudice," Elise Benton, who has just moved to California, is a junior at an exclusive prep school where, in spite of her initial bad impression, she finds herself attracted to the moody and handsome son of Hollywood's most famous celebrity couple.

Barry Trotter and the unauthorized parody

2002
Presents a parody of the Harry Potter stories in which Barry Trotter, Ermine Cringer, and Lon Measly are brought to Hogwash to vanquish the evil Lord Valumart.

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