What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

Books Where Main Character Goes To A Private Or Boarding School. A girl, Teenager. I like historical but only with magic and if new age it can have anything(:

It would help you when searching to remember to spell it "boarding".

Chloe Neill has a YA series that is urban fantasy/paranormalish called the Dark Elite set in a boarding school in Chicago

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls - kinda sorta a boarding school/summer camp - my understanding was that it turned into a year round school, but they didn't seem to show a lot of school type stuff

Viola in Reel Life - she is sent away to boarding school

There are many great series set at boarding schools.
- The Chalet School series by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer.
- Enid Blyton wrote many, including the The Naughtiest Girl In The School series, and Malory Towers series.
- Mabel Esther Allan also wrote many set at boarding schools.
- Trebizon series by Anne Digby.
- Boarding school books.
- Popular boarding school books.
- Boarding school books for young readers.

it's easy to search "boarding school" books on Google, you'll find heaps. Conduct similar searches for "private school" books, or try Google Books and search the phrases in quotes. Or try WorldCat.org. Thousands of results.

i read a series about girls in boarding school who have boy pen pals in another boarding school pen pals was the series i think. :p

I can recommend Luvvy and the Girls by Natalie Savage Carlson and The Great Brain Goes to the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald.

There is a list of books for paranormal boarding school books if you're into that just search for it in listopia. I have read several of the series and would recommend blue bloods.

Also the series I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You which is a series about the girls in a private school who are all from families where one or both parents are spies--and the girls are training to be spies as well.

Jennifer Estep has the series Touch of Frost which is PN.

Gail Carriger has a Steampunk series Etiquette & Espionage

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld

Looking For Alaska - John Green.

By the Light of the Study Lamp has a pair of sisters who attend a boarding school. It's by the same "author" as Nancy Drew, but as a kid I found these a bit more sophisticated than dear old Nancy.

The Twins at St Clare's series are the only ones I remember in English, but they were funny. There are a few good ones in German as well.

By the Light of the Study Lamp is about the Dana girls, Jean and Louise.

The Mandie Series by Lois Gladys Leppard

And Both Were Young -- a charming book set in the mid 1940s, right after WWII. An awkward girl goes to boarding school in Europe. It's by my favorite author, Madeline L'Engle. I love this book.

Hex hall by Rachel Hawkins

Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer is a time travel book about a girl who changes times w/ someone else 50 years earlier in the same boarding school in England.

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

A Separate Peace

The Hour Between

Arthur McDougal's parents ship him off to the Christian Science boarding school the Spooner School in Connecticut after he is kicked out of Manhattan's toniest boys' school. There he struggles with his sexuality and makes friends with the beautiful and troubled Katrina Felt, the daughter of a Hollywood movie star.

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The Little Princess. That's a classic.

I read a book about kids that were sent to a boarding school and there parents were killed for trying to lead some kind of revolt and one of the female main characters mother was amongst those killed. she also sings very well and she got it from her mother. also her boyfriend gets caught and sent to some sort of fighting camp where he has to fight for his life because the only other option from winning is dying.

Down a Dark Hall, by Lois Duncan

I've got a request still outstanding--long time now--for a specific book about prep school, which has never been solved. I'm hoping LobsterGirl saves the day.

I haven't read it but Unnatural

The Finishing School

You don't mention what genre you're looking for, but here are a bunch ranging from mystery to YA to fantasy to gothic romance:

The Secret Language
On the Night of the Seventh Moon
The Horsemasters
Cat Among the Pigeons
The Magicians
Among Others
All of Harry Potter (of course!)
Lace
Little Men and Jo's Boys

Heyy don't miss out
ecspecially if you love spies too! :D

Ohh how can I forgot!
This one is my one absolute favourite!

You have to read the Hex Hall series! It's good!

I looked up the definition of “boarding school” and it is defined as a place where the students live and reside during the semester as opposed to public school where the children merely attend classes and then get sent home for meals and sleeping. So I believe that the novel Jane Eyre should be part of this list since the title character went to Lowood. It is a charity school and there Jane Eyre suffers from poverty and privation. But, since she did indeed reside and take her meals there, I’m sure this book qualifies.

The Catcher in the Rye?

The Fog Comes on Little Pig Feet

Boy in the Water Stephen Dobyns

Oh. My. Gods. Like the Percy books, all the children there are descendents of Greek Gods/Goddesses.

For slightly older beings, there is Meg Cabot 's Size 12 Is Not Fat series. The MC, Heather Wells, is a former pop star who now works as a resident aid for a private college in one of their "dorms". These are cozies.

The Vampire Academy series I think would apply.

Agree with Ann, I enjoyedOh. My. Gods., a quick and fun read.
Meg Cabot always funny I love her The Princess Diaries. Princess Mia does go to a private school, but it's not like a main focus, but if you're looking for something fun and easy, these are good (there are over 10 books in the series).

Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy, starting with
A Great and Terrible Beauty

Great fantasy set in a Victorian girls' boarding school.

There is also The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson, it's nice. The boarding school is kinda cool too.

The Starboard Sea, by Amber Dermont. a MUST READ...

Anna and the French Kiss - an American girl is sent to a boarding school in France.

Classic: "The Little Princess," about a young girl whose life at her exclusive Victorian- era boarding school becomes nightmarish when her father is lost at sea and can no longer pay her tuition. She is made to move into an attic room and become a servant.

Oops, the title is "A Little Princess," not "The".

The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy.

Escape Theory

These haven't been mentioned yet, I believe:
-The Daring Game
-Back Home

The New Girls

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