Sylvia Bishop: The Midnight Thief (Scholastic 2021)
Freya Robinson is a student at a prestigious boarding school. She doesn’t like it because she doesn’t find it interesting enough. She preferred to live with her archaeologist father, but when he found all seven legendary Eldrida Dragons, the statues featured in Anglo-Saxon legends, he decided that his daughter would receive a proper education. Freya is disliked by both the headmistress and her classmates at school. Her situation is not too rosy, as breaking the rules is part of her everyday life. However, that bat changes everything. Or maybe the Dragons are responsible for this turn of the story?
Jacqueline Harvey: Alice-Miranda series (Penguin Books Australia)
We all know the protagonists who get into trouble with their every move throughout their history. Alice-Miranda is not like that. She is a phenomenal seven-year-old girl who enrolls herself in a boarding school called the Winchesterfield-Downsfordvale Academy for Proper Young Ladies to conquer everyone there with her kindness. Very cute book. For younger ones (and bigger ones also) it promises perfect summer relaxation. The 20th volume will be published this year.
Robin Stevens: Murder Most Unladylike (first published by Corgi Books 2014)
The main characters of the story are Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong, who attend Deepdean School for Girls. Since Daisy is very fond of detective novels, they establish the Wells and Wong Detective Agency in complete secrecy, which sheds light on the mysterious cases that occur at the school. So far, there hasn’t been much of anything interesting to investigate. However, one night, Hazel finds one of their teachers, Miss Bell, dead in the gym. But by the time she returns with help, the body has disappeared. Of course, no one believes her, except for Daisy, who gets the opportunity so that the detective agency can finally get a real case to solve.
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Bloomsbury Publishing first published in 1997)
Harry Potter lives at his aunt’s house, which cannot be said to be pleasant at all, then one day he receives a letter when he gets 11 years old. He doesn’t know from whom, because his foster parents destroy it. But the letters keep coming until it turns out that Harry has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry because he is a wizard himself. Adventures, friends, and even enemies await him here, which he never dreamed of until now. The Harry Potter series has become a classic of our time.
Julia Nobel: The Mystery of Black Hollow Lane (Sourcebooks 2019)
Our protagonist, Emmy is sent to a boarding school in England by her mother, the famous child psychologist (“parenting guru”). The little girl is sure she won’t be able to fit into Wellsworth’s strict world, but she soon finds friends (which hasn’t happened to her before) and also stumbles upon a mystery: a secret society is working within the school walls.
