Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)

By Gail Carriger

Subjects: nyt:young-adult=2013-02-24, Science fiction, Schools -- Fiction, Etiquette, fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Steampunk fiction, Spies, Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction, Deception, Spies, fiction, New York Times bestseller, Etiquette, Boarding schools, Schools, fiction, Intrigue, Private schools, Fiction, Children's fiction, Espionage, School stories, Juvenile fiction, Robots, fiction, History, Robots, Truthfulness and falsehood, Spy stories, Schools, Friendship

Description: Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in proper manners -- and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage -- in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.