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The Dragonfly Pool

author: Ibbotson, Eva
Tally and her friends at Dalderton Boarding School form a dance troupe and travel to Bergania, where she befriends Karil, the crown prince, and helps him flee the Nazis after his father is assassinated.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: private schools, dance companies, princes, historical fiction [X], boarding schools [X]

The Education Of Patience Goodspeed

author: Frederick, Heather Vogel
In 1836, fourteen-year-old Patience Goodspeed, daughter of a ship's captain, is unexpectedly sent to a boarding school along with her brother when danger arrives at sea, and she soon suspects that her etiquette teacher is seeking out her father for a husband.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
subjects: boarding schools [X], father and child, historical fiction [X], private schools, father-child relationship, hawaii

Someone Named Eva

author: Wolf, Joan M.
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

A Great And Terrible Beauty

author: Bray, Libba
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: magic, supernatural, boarding schools [X], schools, historical fiction [X], england, great britain, school stories, private schools

Little Men

author: Alcott, Louisa May
With two sons of her own, and twelve boys at the Plumfield school, Jo March--now Jo Bhaer--couldn't be happier.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1260
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools, family life, private schools, historical fiction [X], family, new england, school stories

The Strictest School In The World

author: Whitehouse, Howard
Fourteen-year-old tomboy Emmaline Cayley is sent away to St. Grimelda's School for Young Ladies in hopes of ridding her of her unladylike ways.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: femininity, boarding schools [X], flying machines, historical fiction [X]

Cheyenne Again

author: Bunting, Eve
In the late 1880's, a Cheyenne boy named Small Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: cheyenne indians, boarding schools [X], schools, historical fiction [X]

Finding Hattie

author: Warner, Sally
In 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920
subjects: boarding schools [X], schools, orphans, cousins, historical fiction [X], tarrytown (n.y.)

The Acad?mie

author: Dunlap, Susanne Emily
Told in separate voices, teenaged Eliza Monroe, the daughter of a future United States President, Hortense de Beauharnais and Caroline Bonaparte, relatives of Napoleon I, and Madeleine, daughter of an actress, come together at L'Acad?mie Nationale ? St.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:

The Island Of Mad Scientists

author: Whitehouse, Howard
Fourteen-year-old Emmaline Cayley, her friend, and Princess Purnah of Chiligrit try to avoid the government's attempts to return Purnah to her school and a man who collects mad scientists and wants to capture the children.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: historical fiction [X], adventure and adventurers, scientists, boarding schools [X], girls

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