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The Secret Life Of A Boarding School Brat

author: Gordon, Amy
Unhappy to be sent to boarding school after her parents' divorce and her father's remarriage, seventh-grader Lydia chronicles her experiences, secret feelings, and changing outlook about her situation in the diary that her grandmother gave her before she died.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools [X], self-perception, interpersonal relations, divorce

Return Of The Emerald Skull

author: Stewart, Paul
Weird and evil events at a London boarding school provide messenger Barnaby Grimes an opportunity to test his budding knowledge of the ancient Chinese art of yinchido, in which one focuses on silences and empty spaces.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020

The Bad Apple

author: Burns, T. R.
After accidentally killing a substitute teacher with an apple, twelve-year-old Seamus Hinkle is sent to Kilter Academy where, in order to excel as he always has, he must behave badly and pull pranks on his teachers, but along with new friends Lemon and Elinor he discovers that there is more to the Academy than meets the eye.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

Bonaparte

author: Chall, Marsha Wilson
When a young French boy goes away to school, he and his dog are sad to be separated until they find a way to change the school's rules about dogs.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 410
subjects: dogs, boarding schools [X], schools [X], private schools, france

Mad About Madeline

author: Bemelmans, Ludwig
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

A Little Princess

author: Zamorsky, Tania
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: orphans, boarding schools [X], schools [X], private schools, london (england)

Sara Crewe

author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
When she is orphaned, the star pupil of Miss Minchin's boarding school in London becomes a penniless, friendless ward of the cruel Miss Minchin.
FIC
year: 1981
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools [X], orphans, london (england)

Jo's Boys

author: Alcott, Louisa May
Recounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1210

The Perils Of Peppermints

author: Wallace, Barbara Brooks
Left at a New York boarding school by Aunt and Uncle Twice, eleven-year-old Emily finds horrors even greater than those she faced at Sugar Hill Hall, especially after she gets word that her inheritance is lost.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970

Dudes, The School Is Haunted!

author: Stine, R. L
When the most timid boy in Rotten School's fourth grade becomes the target of its biggest bully, Bernie Bridges decides to fight brawn with brains by convincing the bully that a ghost is out to get him.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 470
subjects: bullies, ghosts, boarding schools [X], schools [X], school stories, ghost stories

Constance And The Great Escape

author: Le Gall, Pierre
Constance's parents and teachers decide that she needs to be sent to a strict boarding school but Constance, determined to reunite with her beloved cat, Tiny, devises a plan to return home.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools [X], human behavior, parent and child

A Little Princess

author: Colln, Louise
An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel in which Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: boarding schools [X], orphans, schools [X], london (england), great britain

Little Men

author: Alcott, Louisa May
Sequel to "Little Women" Aunt March's house has been turned into a school by Jo and her husband.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1260

Hysteria

author: Miranda, Megan
After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: death, memory, private schools, boarding schools [X], schools [X]

The War Of Jenkins' Ear

author: Morpurgo, Michael
Toby Jenkins' friendship with an unusual new boy who claims to be Jesus makes life at boarding school somewhat more tolerable, even when conflict arises between the students and the boys from town.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools [X], interpersonal relations, christian life, private schools

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