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• I Am Not Jessica Chen

  Liang, Ann,

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  This novel stars Jenna Chen, who, after being rejected from Harvard, wishes to be her "perfect" cousin, Jessica. When she wakes up in Jessica’s body, she experiences the high-pressure, elite life she envied, only to discover the intense academic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Language of Dragons

  Williamson, S. F.,

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  In an alternate 1932 London, a girl breaks a truce between dragons and humans. To save her family she must work at Bletchley Park as a codebreaker, in a story about language, loyalty, love and redemption.

• Where Sleeping Girls Lie

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  A girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

• Draw Down the Moon

  Cast, P. C.,

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  This YA contemporary fantasy follows Wren Nightingale, who discovers she has magical powers on her 18th birthday despite being deemed a "Mundane." She joins her best friend and crush, Lee Young, at a secret island academy to train, where they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lilies

  Diacon-Furtado, Quinn,

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  Trapped in a mysterious time loop on the day after a member of the Lilies Society disappears, four Archwell Academy students discover they each hold a clue that will unlock the truth about the Lilies, but they're each harboring a secret they would…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Immortal Dark

  Girma, Tigest,

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  Nineteen-year-old orphan Kidan Adane, heiress to a fallen House of humans tethered to vampiric creatures called draniacs, navigates her duty to foster human-draniac relations, but when her sister is kidnapped, Kidan suspects a draniac and will do…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tender Beasts

  Sambury, Liselle,

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  Sunny Behre has lived a charmed life as part of the uber-wealthy Behre clan, a Black Canadian ranching family that also runs an elite school for underprivileged students. When a gruesome murder rocks Sunny's private school, with her own brother as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Promise Boys

  Brooks, Nick, 1989-

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  J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arrested.

• House of Marionne

  Elle, J.,

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  Seventeen-year-old Quell is reluctantly inducted into a magical debutante society of social elites where she must bind with her forbidden magic while evading the assassin who has been tasked with hunting her kind.

• A Study in Drowning

  Reid, Ava,

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  Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces, both mortal and magical,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Over My Dead Body

  Boo, Sweeney,

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  This graphic novel follows the main character Abby as she struggles with the disappearance of her friend, Noreen, who is like a sister. No one at the school seems to be taking Noreen's disappearance seriously. On top of that Abby is dealing with the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Dearest Darkest

  Cottingham, Kayla,

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  When transfer student Finch Chamberlin and popular senior Selena St. Clair accidentally wake something terrifying and ancient in the depths of their school, they must work together to stop the horror they unleashed before it consumes the town.

• Nothing More to Tell

  McManus, Karen M.,

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  Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process.

• The Chandler Legacies

  Nazemian, Abdi,

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  In 1999, five students with disparate identities are accepted into an exclusive writing club, the Circle, at elite Connecticut boarding school Chandler Academy. In this coveted writing group, life-changing friendships are born and secrets are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ace of Spades

  Àbíké-Íyímídé, Faridah,

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  This thriller novel focuses on Chiamaka and Devon, the only two Black students at an elite private academy, who are targeted by an anonymous bully known as "Aces." The texter exposes their darkest secrets, turning the school against them and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Lesson in Vengeance

  Lee, Victoria, 1989-

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  A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. 

• The Grimrose Girls

  Pohl, Laura,

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  While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inheritance Games

  Barnes, Jennifer Lynn,

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  When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. [Book one of The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legendborn

  Deonn, Tracy,

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  This book follows 16-year-old Bree Matthews as she uncovers a secret, Arthurian-themed magic society at UNC-Chapel Hill while investigating her mother's mysterious death. After witnessing a magical attack, Bree discovers she has her own "Rootcraft"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• They Wish They Were Us

  Goodman, Jessica, 1990-

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  At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.