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The Briar Club employs nine points of view to tell the story of life in a female-only boarding house

phone is always at hand, and if her bosses call, she drops everything to pick up and be a sounding board

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

installment of the series, and her publisher and fans are losing patience, to the point that online message boards

Now he's about to set off on a cross-country road trip to track down his high-school sweetheart following that he's had three heart attacks (and secretly given away almost all of his money, while living in a hoarding-type

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

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

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

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

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

Whitehead, inspired by a real-life reform school that abused and terrorized boys for over a century, wrong guy to his first day of scholarship university classes, he's unfairly sent to a boys' reform school In the midst of becoming pawns in the crooked trading away of the school's supplies to line the pockets The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that, horrifyingly, abused boys for 111 years

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

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.

Dunlap's debut novel explores early Edinburgh surgical schools, questionable methods of obtaining study taken a negative turn, leaving him with a passion for studying medicine but no resources to pursue schooling fascinating underworld of Edinburgh to life, while also exploring the burgeoning surgery and medical school

growing up in Iceland; I'm listening to Colson Whitehead's fiction based upon a real-life boy's reform school wrong guy to his first day of scholarship university classes, he's unfairly sent to a boys' reform school The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that abused boys for 111 years.

I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Gail Carriger's young adult steampunk mystery Finishing School 01 Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing 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

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

stop to openly admire her, and the most high-achieving and most beloved student at a cutthroat high school When Jenna finds out she didn't get into Harvard (or any Ivy League schools--side note: her strong but not remarkable school performance doesn't seem to align with expectations around this) and suffers through She quickly realizes that being a top student at a competitive school and having others distracted by

In Kristy Boyce's young-adult charmer, high schoolers Riley and Nathan, coworkers who have nothing in High schooler Riley has a grand plan to become a Broadway director. But the always-epic school musical has been canceled because the school thinks there isn't enough support

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.

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

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

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

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

Sebastian de Castell's worldbuilding is fascinating, the magic-school setting is a favorite, and the living up to the family's powerful name by demonstrating more powerful magic than any student in their school

Outer Banks" of North Carolina and is finishing her freshman year in college at a small liberal arts school She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life. odd shed access, the creepy hidey hole, the hunting and game and jerky element, and the staying at school

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.

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

with financial pressures and relationship issues, while young Vera tries to simply make a friend at school Enjoy the simulacrum of actual learning," Stella the Car said as the deposited them in front of the school

Sally Samuelson was eight, her idolized golden-boy older brother Ellis went missing after his high school Wright, the former principal of Sybil's school), which adds to the sometimes-disjointed feeling of the

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

Sebastian de Castell's worldbuilding is fascinating, the magic-school setting is a favorite, and the living up to the family's powerful name by demonstrating more powerful magic than any students in their school

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

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

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

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.

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.

Laurie Woolever is fresh from culinary school and realizing that she doesn't want to be a chef when she

died, her mother fell apart, her older sister Beth became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart--and after Jo moved in with the young married couple while she finished high school.

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

Yet she secures herself a position at an art school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality

died, her mother fell apart, her older sister Beth became pregnant by (and married) her beloved high school sweetheart--and after Jo moved in with the young married couple while she finished high school. Ships . 05 I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang Ann Liang's newest young adult rom-com pits high school She's valedictorian, school captain, and a model student.

Yet she secures herself a position at an art school, where she struggles with imposter syndrome and individuality

Wes's dad dies only weeks into their first semester, Wes leaves behind his D1 baseball future, his schooling funding for coverage of and for the extent of filming and featuring the new player Wes, including a school-funded

McPhillips's upcoming debut, a suspense novel about a working-class student in a prestigious Dublin private school Press. 02 When We Were Silent Fiona McPhillips Louise Manson is new to Dublin's most exclusive private school

In the fifth in Maureen Johnson's Truly Devious series, skilled amateur high school sleuth Stevie Bell