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- Review of Voyage of the Damned by Frances White
The twelve heirs of Concordia are aboard, each with a special magical power (a Blessing).
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The unreliable narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day of
- Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik
A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with But she fears she'll be killed in one of the school's daily unfortunate incidents before she can finish her of being capable of dark magic, but it's not like she's summoning her mortal flame or blowing the school feel like the page time spent on extensive explanations (of how enclaves do and don't work, how the school's I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
A Deadly Education is the first in Novik's Scholomance series, which is set at a magical school with I loved that Novik began putting more of the school's fate in the hands of her young characters--and The magical school setting reminded me of Naomi Novik's A Deadly Education, although the tone of this
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/13/24 Edition
She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/11/22 Edition
Edinburgh society. 02 Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett Emma Starling is a natural healer and a med-school Then Emma discovers that her best friend from high school is missing.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny Scholomance series about a magical school Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling In Novik's second book of the trilogy, El is determined to help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
Atlanta to her rural North Carolina town to track her family's history and finish her thesis for graduate school
- Review of Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter
adorable young adult rom-com Better Than the Movies is about Liz Buxbaum, a fabulously eccentric high schooler Liz is a hopeless romantic who has been waiting her whole high school career to be swept off her feet
- Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school
- Review of True Biz by Sara Nović
Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain
- Review of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition
Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the Family. 03 How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang In high school
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
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
- Review of The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik
Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling this second book of the trilogy, El is determined to somehow help her classmates escape their deadly school She hasn't exactly ingratiated herself to many people at school the past few years.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition
01 Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine It's early 1700s Vienna at a prestigious music school, the Ospedale
- Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
Students at the residential River Valley School for the Deaf are trying to get through finals, maintain Kimmery Martin's Doctors and Friends begins with a group of seven women, friends since medical school And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
to piece together her complicated feelings about David, who she kissed), her parents pull her out of school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition
The untrustworthy narrator gathers friends from primary school to compare accounts of that pivotal day
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition
She's valedictorian, school captain, and model student.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/23/22 Edition
High school was largely a nightmare, so her time at her state university is bound to be an improvement first day of classes, Barrett fears that college may end up a ruination on par with the end of her high school
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Tom Hazard is a high school English teacher. So when Tom begins to fall for the French teacher at school, it may renew his faith in the world and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/23/23 Edition
She's got to raise the money to send her bright younger brother Jacob to a private school where he can
- Review of Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- Review of The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
The Paris Novel is the first novel by food writer, memoir author, food critic, and James Beard award-winner
- Review of American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
I liked Curtis Sittenfeld's peek at prep schools in Prep, and I loved her short story collection You
- Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
Beasts of a Little Land tracks Jade's schooling, found family, artistic expression, and her social position
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
though My Best Friend's Exorcism has already passed lovingly hand to hand through your entire grade at school visiting Bookshop.org to support independent booksellers if you're adding to your pandemic-era book hoard
- Review of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
history such as that of Black music and appropriation; decades of racial impacts on the modern public school
- Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
And it isn't just that being in her teen body again shocks her, or that seeing her high school crush
- Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin
Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding a Wallflower, Borderland Ladies, The London School
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school and living at home when she meets James It's early 1700s Venice at a prestigious music school for orphans, the Ospedale della Pietà.
- Review of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
role in her view of the world and how she approached her life--and resulted in her expulsion from high school
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
university student working in a Cork bookstore, dating a boring but reliable young man from her high school
- Review of Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
He went to grad school, he went to therapy, and he began to let go of the guilt surrounding the idea
- Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman
like the symptom of all the biggest world problems...relentless greed, disregard for the environment, hoarding
- Review of The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
village where girls are often married off by age fourteen and are frequently made to stop attending school emotional, physical, familial, and societal hardships, yet she keeps her sights set on getting back into school
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
experiences in the US—with her sister and family on weekends in inner city Chicago and her weekday life and schooling
- Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
He explores various schools of thought about ethics and morality to consider more complex issues, including
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Polly's connection to the young ladies she teaches in her school becomes more evident to her and to the
- Review of Alias Emma (Alias Emma #1) by Ava Glass
Ava Glass is a pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, author of the YA Night School thrillers.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/14/24 Edition
through the plane as if in a trance, announcing expected ages of and causes of death for each person aboard
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
In high school, Helen Zheng's life was upended by the tragic, sudden death of her sister Michelle.
- Review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
teachers, smoking cigars, and drinking jug wine, among other things) appear on the scene of the Sunday School
- Review of Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Solomon
It's the last day of high school, and senior nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every title, position, honor, and moment of recognition during their high school careers. Solomon's young adult novel feels authentically set in high school, yet offers appeal for anyone who
- Review of Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
When cool Leo at school reveals that he's into comedy too, Haylah jumps at the chance to write material
- Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry
emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years of schooling
- Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading
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
- Six More Contemporary Novels I Loved in the Past Year
James crafts a tender, funny story with zing about a secretly trans high school teacher in a small town
















































