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Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughter's exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kate's stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then it's already...

"Helen Fairchild is leading a privileged Pasadena existence: married to a pillar of the community; raising a water polo-playing son destined for the most select high school; volunteering on the most fashionable committees. It only bothers her a tiny bit that she has never quite fit in with the proper crowd, never finished that graduate degree in Classics, and never had that second baby. But the rigid rules of society in Pasadena appeal to Helen, the...

When Lucy overhears the headmaster of Overworld Academy make plans to take over Overworld, she has trouble convincing her friends to take a stand against the evil rising in their world.

Sadie Roper moved back to London determined to pick up the pieces of her shattered life. She needs to get her daughter settled into a most exclusive school in the city. She's going to get back the high-flying criminal barrister career she sacrificed for marriage ten years earlier. But Sadie finds herself on the outside as she navigates the fraught politics of the school gate. A scandalous, high-profile case is the perfect opportunity to prove herself...

Lip gloss addict Emerson Taylor and her best friend, Trina, have declared this year the Year of the Boy and vowed to find boyfriends. But for Emerson, there{u2019}s just one problem: she can read the mind of anyone whose lips touch hers. It{u2019}s totally creepy{u2014}and at first it seems like a curse. But Emerson soon realizes there are perks to her strange talent{u2014}like the ability to steal secrets, memories, and most importantly, test answers....

A doomsday prepper and private school custodian must rescue his genius hacker son, who is caught by a brutal drug cartel for electronically siphoning off their funds.

"In the aftermath of a thwarted alien invasion, teenagers across the globe have begun to develop incredible powers known as Legacies. While most are sent to the Human Garde Academy, countless others slip through the cracks--either by choice or by force. Desperately wanting to help these lost teens, Six and Sam have joined a covert group tasked with investigating suspicious incidents that might be Legacy-related. The Legacy Chronicles companion series...

" He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland's life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates--the highly-rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood...

Amy Flowers is starting seventh grade at a new school, the exclusive Allington Academy, but in order to fit in, she has to get on the right side of the League, the clique that controls the school, and its mean leader, Fiona.