Forging inseparable bonds in childhood that reinforce them throughout their teen years, two girls and three boys go their separate ways as adults and encounter respective tragedies and transformations.

Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.

Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Olivia knows that Gallant...

“A riveting story [about] the intensity of young love and the intensity of self-hatred . . . Marvelous” (Elizabeth Strout).
 
St. Ebury, an elite Ottawa boarding school, might appear to an outsider like a place steeped in rules and traditions. But the animal instincts of the boys who reside there are only barely restrained. A handful of girls are also in attendance—among them, Fall, a beautiful...

"The disappearance of a brilliant scholarship student and a young, charismatic teacher from an all-girls Catholic boarding school in Ireland is an unsolved mystery that has captivated the whole country. Year after year the media revisit it, and the conspiracy theories persist. Now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearances, a journalist who grew up on the same street as the missing girl delves into the past to write a series of articles...

The cruel world of the early Victorian England. The novel describes the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man that has to support his family - his mother (a Dickens portrait own mother) and sister - after the death of his father.

Madeline Dare goes to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Once there she finds a disturbing realm where students and teachers must follow the dean's bizarre therapies. She quickly discovers that many of her colleagues are devout followers of the dean. Maddie forms an unlikely alliance with a small group of rebellious students whose constant resistance to authority may be...

"Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants— the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming— until one of them mysteriously disappears... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan...

With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March now Mrs Jo Bhaer couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for the warm and affectionate support of the whole March family to help avoid disaster.

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.