Navigating Early
After his mother dies, Jack Baker is sent to a boys' boarding home in Maine where he meets an unusual boy named Early Auden.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 87
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools [X], eccentrics and eccentricities, appalachian trail, maine, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, private schools, school stories, adventure stories, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / 20th century, adventure fiction
The Austere Academy
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 200
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1120
subjects: orphans, brothers and sisters, boarding schools [X], schools [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction, siblings, baudelaire, sunny (fictional character), chinese language, baudelaire, klaus, baudelaire, sunny, baudelaire, violet, private schools, school stories, humorous fiction
Madeline And The Bad Hat
When the Spanish ambassador moves in next door, Madeline and the rest of the twelve little girls discover that his son is not the best neighbor.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 52
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: paris (france), stories in rhyme, madeline (fictitious character), madeline (fictional character), picture books, boarding schools [X], schools [X], private schools
Missing The Piano
When Mike's mother and sister go on tour with "Les Mis?rables, " Mike's father and his new wife enroll Mike in St.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: military education, schools [X], school stories, boarding schools [X], family problems, coming of age
Black Mirror
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
Brother Hood
Sixteen-year-old Nate, an academically gifted student who attends an exclusive private boarding school, straddles two cultures as he returns home for occasional visits to see his family and "gangsta crew" in Harlem, New York.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: african americans, boarding schools [X], schools [X], private schools, harlem (new york, n.y.), large type books, gifted children
Looking For Alaska
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 277
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
Samurai Shortstop
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
Drawing A Blank, Or, How I Tried To Solve A Mystery, End A Feud, And Land The Girl Of My Dreams
Carlton Dunne IV, an outcast boarding school student with a secret identity as a graphic novelist, teams up with a beautiful Scottish girl who yearns to be an American police officer, to resolve an ancient feud and rescue Carlton's kidnapped father.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: cartoons and comics, vendetta, kidnapping, boarding schools [X], schools [X], scotland, caricatures and cartoons, cartoons and caricatures
Jellicoe Road
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: abandoned children, emotional problems of children, boarding schools [X], schools [X], individuality, australia, emotional problems, identity, school fiction
The Miles Between
Seventeen-year-old Destiny keeps a painful childhood secret all to herself until she and three classmates from her exclusive boarding school take off on an unauthorized road trip in search of "one fair day.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: secrets, emotional problems, friendship, boarding schools [X], schools [X], secrecy, private schools, school stories
Alphas
Skye Hamilton, invited to attend the exclusive Alphas-only boarding school, must gird herself for the intense competition between young members of the country's best and brightest.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
Breathless
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: schizophrenia, mental illness, brothers and sisters, boarding schools [X], schools [X], siblings, private schools, school stories
Freefall
Briar Academy senior Luke prefers avoiding conflict and letting others make his decisions, but he is compelled to choose whether or not to stand by the best friend whose reckless behavior has endangered Luke and may have caused another student's death.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: best friends, friendship, peer pressure, boarding schools [X], schools [X], family problems, death, youths' writings, school stories, private schools, dysfunctional families
Anna And The French Kiss
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: interpersonal relations, boarding schools [X], schools [X], foreign study, paris (france), france, school stories, private schools, high school seniors, teenage girls, love, high school students, romance fiction