preparatory schools

"The Auradon and Villain Kids prepare to make the Neon Lights Ball a night to remember. Between the tea parties and fashion emergencies, the kids soon discover a mysterious someone is up to no good, scheming thefts and fashion faux-pas. When the Neon Lights Ball is interrupted by a series of sabotages, the A.K.s suspect that the V.K.s are behind all the trouble, once again"--Amazon.com.

Although the Ashley girls control Miss Gamble's Preparatory School for Girls, Lauren Page is determined to rise above them despite her bargain-basement clothes.

A new website mysteriously appears ranking all the popular girls at Miss Gamble's School for Girls on their style, social presence, smarts, and smile. Lauren sees a way to get to the top of the list putting all the Ashleys in jeopardy.

It's Open House at Royal Prep! Will Sofia and her friends get everything ready in time?.

Tara, an Indian American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and possible selves.

Willa leaves a small town in Iowa to begin a new life in the East at an ultra-exclusive prep school.

When Cedric makes Sofia his apprentice, she doesn't suspect that he is after her magical amulet yet again. But the magic of friendship is the true lesson to be learned when Sofia helps Cedric out of a "tricky" situation.

When girls start experiencing strange tics and other mysterious symptoms at her high school, only Colleen connects their fate to the ill-fated Salem Village, where a similarly bizarre epidemic occured three centuries ago.

"This Secrets of Auradon Prep handbook uncovers little-known fact about the elite school attended by heirs of some of the world's most well-known heroes. But when the sons and daughters of some of the world's most well-known villains are invited to go there, havoc breaks loose. Write-ins and secret notes reveal what Mal and her friends--as well as the Auradon kids--are really thinking about each other. Take a peek inside to see who says what next!"--Back cover.

"A shocking expos? of sexual abuse and the struggle for justice at one of America's most prestigious schools The Horace Mann School, located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, represents the pinnacle of private education. With all its accolades and prestige, few could have anticipated the scandal that erupted in 2012 when The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story by the journalist and Horace Mann alumnus Amos Kamil detailing a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse by teachers. In Great Is the Truth, Kamil and his coauthor, Sean Elder, uncover the full story of what happened at Horace Mann, and recount what has occurred in the aftermath of Kamil's watershed article. With craft and poise, they reveal a high-stakes environment of demanding academics and barely hidden debauchery, where many faculty members exploited their unchecked and undue influence to horrifying ends. Fast-forwarding to the present, Kamil and Elder relate how survivors emerged and petitioned for redress with the aid of celebrity lawyers while administrators and trustees scrambled to protect the school and themselves. They also look closely at how other schools have responded to scandal, often with far greater compassion and candor. How can institutions rectify their complicity in abuse and prevent it from recurring? How can victims achieve their due? "Great is the truth and it prevails," may be the motto of Horace Mann, but for many alumni, the truth remains all too hard to come by"--.