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Seven-year old Sarah Crewe does indeed appear to be a princess, with every lovely possession a little girl could want, and dignity and graciousness too. While he travels abroad for his work, her father leaves her at Miss Minchin's Seminary. Suddenly, with the arrival of disastrous news about her father, Sarah's world changes completely. Fortunately, her sweet nature never deserts her and, despite her cruel treatment at the hands of Miss Minchin,...
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Whispers on the moors novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
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English
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When the master of Rosemere School returns to protect his birthright, putting Patience Creighton's job as headmistress in jeopardy, Patience must seek God's plans for her future--especially when the master's past is brought to light.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Taliban’s backyard
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised...
Anyone who despairs of the individual’s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain villagers and promised...
4) Madam
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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English
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"A riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls' boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula. For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs, CaldonbraeHall has sat untouched, a beacon of excellence in an old ancestral castle. A boarding school for girls, it promises that the young women lucky enough to be admitted will emerge 'resilient and ready...
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Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
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Unabridged.
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English
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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 Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
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English
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A century after the macabre deaths of several students at a New England girls' boarding school, the release of a sensational book on the school's history inspires a horror film adaptation that renews suspicions of a curse when the cast and crew arrive atthe long-abandoned building.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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After stints as an undercover grandmother and an undercover nanny, FBI agent Malcolm Turner adds 'undercover housemother' to his resume. In this hefty new comedy, Big Momma is hired to go deep undercover as the Headmistress of the Atlanta Girls' School for the Arts. Turner brings along his son to go undercover as a student in the school with hilarious results.
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Girls with sharp sticks volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Mena and the other girls of Innovations Academy enroll in Ridgeview Prep, seeking revenge against the corporation that traumatized them at Innovations Academy, but they still face many obstacles.
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English
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"When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The Ladies of the Lake, as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy,...
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The year is 1871. In Ashwell, Massachusetts, at the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel, whose fame as a philosopher has waned in recent years, takes the birds' appearance as an omen that the time is ripe for his newest venture. He will start a school for young women, guiding their intellectual development as he has so carefully guided his daughter's. Despite Caroline's misgivings, Samuel's...
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