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Where girls come first Where girls come first Ilana DeBare "Twenty years ago, all-girl schools seemed headed for extinction, a minor footnote in the broad story of American education. Today they are experiencing a dramatic revival. In this book, Ilana DeBare… OL16027175W
The Secret Place The Secret Place Tana French Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to join Dublin’s Murder Squad when sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey arrives in his office with a photo of a popular boy whose body was found at a … OL17371637W
The good sister The good sister Wendy Corsi Staub "Sacred Sisters Catholic girls' school has hardly changed since Jen Archer was a student. Jen hoped her older daughter would thrive here. Instead, shy, studious Carley becomes the target of vicious b… OL17692427W
The Ashley Project The Ashley Project Melissa De La Cruz "Lauren thought her plan was pretty simple: get a fabulous makeover, become one of the Ashleys, and once she's securely in their good graces, completely destroy them from the inside. There's only one… OL17898302W
Three cups of deceit Three cups of deceit Jon Krakauer Argues that author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, noted for his campaign to open schools for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan, has not been truthful about his past, his reasons for opening schools… OL19950171W
Crush Crush Maureen Chadwick "It's 1963 and the Dame Dorothea Dosserdale School for Girls has a proud tradition of fostering free spirits from all walks of life. So it's a crushing blow when the new headmistress turns out to be … OL20059305W
Plain Bad Heroines Plain Bad Heroines Sara Lautman,Emily M. Danforth Our story begins in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of… OL21177398W
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School Kim Newman A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns tha… OL21622866W
Crush Crush Jane Futcher In her final year at a prestigious boarding school, reserved, artistic Jinx is badly hurt by the treachery of the rich, pretty girl she has considered her best friend. OL2632209W
Se chan ŭi ch'a Se chan ŭi ch'a Greg Montenson One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through… OL26445825W
The Mathematics of Love The Mathematics of Love Emma Darwin The mathematics of love defies arithmetic . . . The Mathematics of Love is an intimate, poignant story of two people whose lives—amazingly, impossibly—become interwoven in a brilliant tapestry of tra… OL278073W
Sealed with a Diss Sealed with a Diss Lisi Harrison Massie Block: Stands at the threshold of the most ah-mazing secret room at OCD. But to prove the Pretty Committee is worthy of the honor, the girls need dates to Skye Hamilton's "famous couples" cost… OL5711691W
Bratfest at Tiffany's Bratfest at Tiffany's Lisi Harrison Massie Block: The Briarwood boys have invaded OCD and are taking over everything. Worse, the soccer boys have become so popular that the Pretty Committee's alpha status is in serious jeopardy. So Mas… OL5711693W
Stones into schools Stones into schools Greg Mortenson From the author of the #1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's efforts to promote peace through educationIn this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg … OL5844963W