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The evil within

2010
Lindsay discovers that she is possessed and must return to Marlwood Academy in order to free herself from the demon that is telling her to do things she does not want to do.

Something fishy at Macdonald Hall

1995
Just 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.

Switched

2007
Laura and Willa, born the same night seventeen years ago on opposite sides of Darien, Connecticut, are both unhappy with their lives and when they discover they look remarkably alike, they decide to try out one another's lives for four months.

Back home

1984
Sent to America from England at age seven to escape war-torn England, Rusty returns five years later to go to a strict English boarding school and renew her relationship with her family, who now seem like strangers to her.

Jellicoe Road

2010
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.

Emma Brown

2004
A gentleman and a childless widow search nineteenth-century England for a mysterious young girl who disappears from a provincial girls' school after the headmistress learns that her tuition has not been paid and her name is a fake. Based on a twenty-page novel fragment left by Charlotte Bront? at her death.

Little men

1986
Follows 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.

The strictest school in the world

being the tale of a clever girl, a rubber boy and a collection of flying machines, mostly broken
2006
Fourteen-year-old tomboy Emmaline Cayley is sent away to St. Grimelda's School for Young Ladies in hopes of ridding her of her unladylike ways.

A little princess

1990
Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

A little princess

2005
An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel in which Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

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