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Author: Webster, Jean,
Title: Daddy-Long-Legs /
Publisher: Scholastic, [198-]

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View DescriptionOrphaned Judy Abbot relates her college adventures in letters to the mysterious benefactor that she calls Daddy-Long-Legs.

Subjects/Tags: Orphans Juvenile fiction. Benefactors Juvenile fiction. Letters Juvenile fiction. Boarding schools Juvenile fiction. Orphans Fiction. Letters Fiction. Universities and colleges Fiction.

Author: Donald, Anabel.
Title: In at the deep end /
Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1994.

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Subjects/Tags: Women detectives Fiction. Boarding schools England Fiction.

Author: Alcott, Louisa May,
Title: Little men :life at Plumfield with Jos boys /
Publisher: Little, Brown, c1994.

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View DescriptionFollows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family life New England Fiction.

Author: Alcott, Louisa May,
Title: Jos boys and how they turned out /
Publisher: Little, Brown, c1994.

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View DescriptionRecounts the further adventures, successes, and failures of the numerous young men of Plumfield school. Sequel to "Little Men."

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family life New England Fiction.

Author: Bemelmans, Ludwig,
Title: Mad about Madeline :the complete tales /
Publisher: Viking, 1993.

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Subjects/Tags: Childrens stories, American. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Stories in rhyme.

Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson,
Title: A little princess /
Publisher: Scholastic, c2000.

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View DescriptionSaras life at Miss Minchins London boarding school changes drastically when her father dies leaving her penniless.

Subjects/Tags: ind1"0" Boarding schools Fiction. ind1"0" Schools Fiction. ind1"0" Orphans Fiction.

Author: Golding, Paul,
Title: The abomination /
Publisher: Knopf :Distributed by Random House, 2000.

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Subjects/Tags: Gay men Fiction. Autobiographical memory Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Parent and child Fiction.

Author: Snicket, Lemony.
Title: The Austere Academy
Publisher: Harper Childrens Audio, p2001.

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View DescriptionAs their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.

Subjects/Tags: Orphans Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Humorous stories. Audiobooks.

Author: Bunting, Eve,
Title: Spying on Miss Muller /
Publisher: Clarion Books, 1995.

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View DescriptionAt Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own fathers drinking problem.

Subjects/Tags: World War, 1939-1945 Northern Ireland Belfast Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Northern Ireland Belfast Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Fathers and daughters Fiction.

Author: Alcott, Louisa May,
Title: Little men /
Publisher: G.K. Hall, 1995.

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View DescriptionFollows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Subjects/Tags: Large type books. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family life New England Fiction. Large type books.

Author: Korman, Gordon.
Title: Something fishy at Macdonald Hall /
Publisher: Scholastic, 1995.

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View DescriptionJust as the Headmaster of Macdonald Hall is on the verge of retirement, a wave of practical jokes hits the school, and roommates Bruno and Boots become prime suspects.

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Practical jokes Fiction. Humorous stories.

Author: Bunting, Eve,
Title: Cheyenne again /
Publisher: Clarion Books, c1995.

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View DescriptionIn the late 1880s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white mans ways.

Subjects/Tags: Cheyenne Indians Ethnic identity Juvenile fiction. Cheyenne Indians Ethnic identity Fiction. Indians of North America Great Plains Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction.

Author: Rogg, Carla S.
Title: The boarding school guide :the indispensable guide on leading schools throughout the United States /
Publisher: Carl Solutions, 1996]

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Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools United States Directories.

Author: Savage, Deborah.
Title: Under a different sky /
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

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View DescriptionA boy with Olympic dreams and an extraordinary horse struggles to transcend his impoverished family background as he falls in love with the emotionally troubled daughter of a wealthy family.

Subjects/Tags: Horsemanship Fiction. Horses Fiction. Love Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family problems Fiction.

Author: Ibbotson, Eva.
Title: A song for summer /
Publisher: St. Martins Press, 1998.

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Subjects/Tags: World War, 1939-1945 Austria Vienna Fiction. Boarding schools Austria Vienna Fiction. Housemothers Fiction.

Author:
Title: Louisa May Alcotts Little men
Publisher: Warner Bros. Home Video, [1998].

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View DescriptionFollows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Subjects/Tags: March family (Fictitious characters) Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family life New England Fiction. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Author: Creech, Sharon.
Title: Bloomability /
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, c1998.

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View DescriptionWhen her aunt and uncle take her from New Mexico to Lugano, Switzerland, to attend an international school, thirteen-year-old Dinnie discovers an expanding world and her place within it.

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction.

Author: Horne, Esther Burnett.
Title: Essies story :the life and legacy of a Shoshone teacher /
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, c1998.

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Subjects/Tags: Shoshoni women Biography. Women teachers North Dakota Biography. Indian youth Education North Dakota. Off-reservation boarding schools North Dakota History.

Author: Rubinstein, Gillian.
Title: Under the cats eye :a tale of morph and mystery /
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998.

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View DescriptionJai and his friends at a boarding school join forces with shape-shifters in their attempt to defeat the headmaster who steals the souls and futures of the students.

Subjects/Tags: Supernatural Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Fantasy.

Author: Child, Brenda J.,
Title: Boarding school seasons :American Indian families, 1900-1940 /
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, c1998.

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Subjects/Tags: Ojibwa youth Education. Ojibwa youth Correspondence. Ojibwa Indians Correspondence. Off-reservation boarding schools Kansas History. Off-reservation boarding schools South Dakota History.

Author: Rinaldi, Ann.
Title: My heart is on the ground :the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl /
Publisher: Scholastic, 1999.

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View DescriptionIn the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

Subjects/Tags: Dakota Indians Juvenile fiction. Dakota Indians Fiction. Indians of North America Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction.

Author: Cooper, Michael L.,
Title: Indian school :teaching the white mans way /
Publisher: Clarion Books, c1999.

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Subjects/Tags: Indians of North America Education Juvenile literature. Off-reservation boarding schools United States Juvenile literature. Indians of North America Cultural assimilation Juvenile literature.

Author: Kohler, Sheila.
Title: Cracks /
Publisher: Zoland Books, 1999.

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Subjects/Tags: Teenage girls Sexual behavior Fiction. Boarding schools South Africa Fiction.

Author: Snicket, Lemony.
Title: The austere academy /
Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000.

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Subjects/Tags: Orphans Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Humorous stories.

Author: Warner, Sally.
Title: Finding Hattie /
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

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View DescriptionIn 1882 Hattie, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkleys Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world.

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Orphans Fiction. Cousins Fiction.

Author: McGowan, Heather.
Title: Schooling /
Publisher: Doubleday, 2001.

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Subjects/Tags: Teenage girls Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Mothers Death Fiction. Americans England Fiction. Teacher-student relationships Fiction.

Author: Neel, Janet.
Title: O gentle death /
Publisher: St. Martins Minotaur, 2001.

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Subjects/Tags: McLeish, John (Fictitious character) Fiction. Wilson, Francesca (Fictitious character) Fiction. Police England London Fiction. Voice teachers Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction.

Author: Werlin, Nancy.
Title: Black mirror /
Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2001.

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View DescriptionConvinced her brothers death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.

Subjects/Tags: Murder Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction.

Author: Alcott, Louisa May,
Title: Little men :life at Plumfield with Jos boys /
Publisher: Amereon House, [1998].

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View DescriptionFollows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.

Subjects/Tags: Boarding schools Juvenile fiction. Schools Juvenile fiction. Families New England Juvenile fiction Boarding schools Fiction. Schools Fiction. Family life New England Fiction.

Author: Page, Katherine Hall.
Title: The body in the bonfire /
Publisher: William Morrow, c2002.

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Subjects/Tags: Fairchild, Faith Sibley (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women in the food industry Fiction. Caterers and catering Fiction. Boarding schools Fiction. Cookery Fiction.

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