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school. Kendra James was the first Black legacy to graduate from The Taft School, an elite boarding school in , for various reasons) get out of high school and get on with the rest of her life. James notes repeatedly that she felt largely unseen and unknown during her boarding school years. The majority of page time is focused on aspects of James's boarding-school life, including its rhythms

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young Bodie Kane is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted school novel--I love a boarding school novel. For more Bossy reviews of fiction and nonfiction books about boarding schools, click here.

novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious death at a boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this story--part whodunit, part boarding school novel. Bodie Kane is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall into a clandestine love and break each other's hearts. She grew up in a cold, strict British boarding school in the early 1800s. It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies scandal and punishment that would befall them if their situation were made known to the conservative school

ICYMI: This is the first in Johnson's young adult series, set in a boarding school in rural Vermont, Stevie Bell on the case(s). "...no one was going to discount Stevie Bell, who had gotten into this school Ellingham Academy is an elite boarding school in rural Vermont. But after the school opened, Ellingham's wife and daughter were kidnapped.

Now I'm reading Emma Donoghue's newest historical fiction, Learned by Heart, set at an 1800s women's boarding school in England and based upon a real-life figure; I'm listening to the third installment in Karen In Learned by Heart, Lister and her boarding school roommate Eliza Raine become unlikely best friends Raine was a wealthy orphan sent from India to England at age 6 and grew up in the cold, strict Manor School

school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency Bodie Kane is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this story, which I understood to be part whodunit, part boarding school novel--I love a boarding school novel.

about a family that breaks and finds its way back together again; I Have Some Questions for You, a boarding-school school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young characters agency Bodie Kane is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted school novel--I love a boarding school novel.

memoir, Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James; the love-story-in-reverse 01 Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James Kendra James was the first African-American legacy to graduate from The Taft School, an elite prep school in Connecticut. she begins a job as an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools

must be raised a certain way, and they register the dragon's birth send Anequs and the dragon to a school And my thirst for boarding school/magical school settings was quenched by the feminist-activist Anequs's

missing immigrant girls in Colorado; I'm reading True Biz, Sara Novic's coming-of-age story set in a boarding school for deaf students; and I'm reading Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin's speculative fiction about the Martin's Press. 02 True Biz by Sara Novic Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf

Paul's boarding school--as well as the persistent tragic, infuriating, shaming treatment of assault victims Paul's boarding school decades earlier was behind her. Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, opening her sexually--and realized that an institutional cover-up of sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school decades-old case yet again, against continued resistance and "ravenous paternalistic entitlement of the school

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall into a clandestine love and break each other's hearts. She grew up in a cold, strict British boarding school in the early 1800s. It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies scandal and punishment that would befall them if their situation were made known to the conservative school

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s British boarding school who fall into a clandestine love and break each other's hearts. She grew up in a cold, strict British boarding school in the early 1800s. It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies scandal and punishment that would befall them if their situation were made known to the conservative school

Paul's boarding school decades earlier was behind her. Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, opening her Paul's boarding school--as well as the persistent tragic, infuriating, shaming treatment of assault victims between a primate research camp in Botswana, where she felt at home, and an elite Philadelphia girls' school

When a giant storm heads toward the Burlington, Vermont, boarding school do you think Stevie goes along

Paul's boarding school decades earlier was behind her. Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, reopening priest--and realizes that an institutional cover-up of sexual abuse had taken place for decades at the school faces the challenges of asserting her decades-old case yet again, against continued resistance from a school

In Jo Ann Beard's lovely essays and short stories, she writes honestly and beautifully about moments In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores essay except for two stories, "The Tomb of Wrestling" and "What You Seek Is Seeking You," although Beard But Beard's writing feels like long-form poetry in a way--evocative and anchored in wonderfully wrought It meanders as Beard is unmoored after heartbreak and betrayal, and her dear friend is dying.

Paul's boarding school decades earlier was behind her. Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, opening her Paul's boarding school--as well as the persistent tragic, infuriating, shaming treatment of assault victims between a primate research camp in Botswana, where she felt at home, and an elite Philadelphia girls' school

through the wilderness, set in the time of early Jamestown; and a steampunk-Nordic novel about a dragon school And my thirst for boarding school/magical school settings was quenched by the feminist-activist Anequs's

I loved each of the story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The Titanic as well as a British stewardess bent on providing for her family after her father's death and mother's onset of illness, works aboard

misremembering) by Leah Angstman and Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg Long, as well as Jo Ann Beard's But tensions on board the ship soon come to a head, and Ruth may have to choose between her loyalty to In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, Jo Ann Beard explores the tiny moments But Beard's writing feels like long-form poetry in a way--evocative and anchored in wonderfully wrought Beard is also the author of In Zanesville as well as a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys

In Meredith Tate's newest book, Ivy and her gloriously nerdy friends play in the school band and love board games. The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers

I had some trouble getting on board with Walter's premise of moles and freckles and birthmarks holding I would've liked to spend more time at the school as they learned about themselves and the world around

I loved the premise of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school nemesis. Charlotte Wu is a super organized overachiever, and planning the perfect prom is the final item on her high school And the bearded fiance sleeping next to her...is J. T. Renner.

, while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school sitting in a fluorescent-lit classroom in their seaside town of Lovesend, Massachusetts, with their high school in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's steward bent on providing for her family, works aboard

of Autumn Casterly In Meredith Tate's newest book, Ivy and her gloriously nerdy friends play in the school band and love board games.

But high school senior Pippa Fitz-Amobi, an excellent student, workaholic, and perfectionist, has been Oh, and it's probably unwise, but she's got Sal's brother helping her with her murder board, clues, and

the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy boarding

Walsh I loved each of the historical fiction story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The stewardess bent on providing for her family after her father's death and mother's onset of illness, works aboard , while Adina is an unusually perceptive child--with knowledge of another planet, a vivid nighttime school

Autumn Casterly ​ In Meredith Tate's newest book, Ivy and her wonderfully nerdy friends play in the school band and love board games. ―Booklist, starred review #youngadult, #mystery 06 The Inheritance Games ​ Avery is in high school, and

Carey Melanie loves school. ; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board

Charlotte Wu is a super organized overachiever, and planning the perfect prom is the final item on her high school And the bearded fiance sleeping next to her...is J. T. Renner.

sometimes infuriating firsthand peeks at admissions procedures and priorities; ways to evaluate buyer schools and seller schools; and Selingo's take on how to assess complex acceptance statistics and the importance of a specific school to a young person's success. The problem with these often-quoted statistics about selective schools is that they overlook the role ...every month in high school is mentally like a year to adults.

Anyhoo, I have a senior in high school and I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application A senior in high school is, after all, entering into a jumping-off point for their lives, rather than "Somewhere along the way, a school's selectiveness--measured in large part by its acceptance rate--became One of their study conclusions: "The average SAT score of schools that rejected a student is more than Therefore the confidence, assertiveness, and follow-through of applying to elite schools is likely "the

The book includes many detailed accounts of tracking online tweets and online message board messages,

When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material Visitors by Amber Share If you've missed the hilarious Subpar Parks phenomenon, it may be time to get on board

Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes Click here for my full review of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. 03 Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard In Jo Ann Beard's lovely collection Festival Days, she writes honestly and beautifully about moments In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores Festival Days is lovely and sometimes surprising; it feels honest as Beard explores bitterness, confusion

Carey Melanie loves school. ; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board

But tensions on board the ship soon come to a head, and Ruth has to weigh her loyalty to Owen and her

; single-minded young Stephen the wunderkind; gruff, bighearted Colonel Carlisle; and the others on board

I loved the premise and start of this zany story in which a statistics geek braves his high school reunion Santa Ana is a madcap story about a misfit who's mistaken for a drug kingpin at his high school reunion I loved the bizarre twist on high school nostalgia.

Just as she's adjusting to life on board, the crew gets a lucrative opportunity: to tunnel wormholes

love goes viral, it leads to the offer of a competitive internship and soaring popularity at her new school makes a desperate deal with a famous actor in her class: if he plays the role of her fake boyfriend at school This by Amy Lea I loved the premise of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school Charlotte Wu is a super organized overachiever, and planning the perfect prom is the final item on her high school And the bearded fiance sleeping next to her...is J. T. Renner. This premise is a slam-dunk for me.

It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà. Her attendance at the school is a last-ditch attempt to preserve her marriage prospects and assert some The other girls at school only know that Maddalena draws them into her orbit, and everyone wants to be

applicants down," Lieber notes hopefully that "after several years of reporting, I have real hope that the schools potential partners; women's colleges; career counseling services; improving the odds when planning for grad school ; school size; athletic scholarships; experienced teachers; and mental health centers.

Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school nemeses against each other: one relentless perfectionist She's valedictorian, school captain, and a model student.

I have a senior in high school, so I'm currently solidly on the sidelines of college application hustle college--and the dangerous potential belief that a young person's worth could feel determined by which schools She quickly realizes that her father's oblique promises that she could teach school in their new home

Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which begins the story of a magical high school Getting out of school alive was meant to be the solution to all their problems. wrong, El and her friends must do the unthinkable yet again: they must find their way back into the school

Barrett's tenacity and passion for the truth led to a journalistic coup in high school, one that exposed cheating throughout her school's crown jewel of sports, the revered, state-champion tennis team--and ensured that she was reviled by many of her peers and some in her school's administration. her first day of classes, she fears college may become a ruination on par with the end of her high school