Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....

Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her daughters' private school, money that has paid for European vacations, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, and perpetually unused state-of-the-art exercise equipment. When the school faces an audit, Marion pulls piles of rubber-banded cash from their basement hiding places and flees, leaving her family to grapple...

"Nene Yashiro serves as the assistant to the School Mystery Hanako-kun. When she is invited by enigmatic playboy Natsuhiko to a mysterious tea party, she meets Hanako-kun's girlfriend and his little brother ...!? On top of that, she learns that one of the Seven Mysteries is mixed in with her classmates..."--Provided by publisher.

"'Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?' At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom... but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined!...

Out of nowhere, Nene finds herself being dragged inside a mirror, where she meets the spirit of a young boy calling himself Mitsuba. As the two attempte to escape together, they soon find that danger worse than mere imprisonment lurks within the boundary of School Mystery No. 3, the Hell of Mirrors. Nene may have finally gotten herself into a mess that even Hanako-kun can't save her from--but will someone else come to her rescue?

If Nene and Kou want to return to their own world, they have to kill "Amane Yugi" and "Sousuke Mitsuba"--or rather, the versions of them living within the canvas of No. 4's boundary. Faced with that cruel choice, Nene instead proposes a way to escape from this fake world to the boy she can't help but call "Hanako-kun." At the same time, Kou tries to win over Mitsuba... but just who exactly is this "Mitsuba"?

Dear America series. In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.

"When strange things start happening at Auradon Prep that threaten the school's big Spirit Weekend, Ally is determined to find who's behind the madness"--Back cover.

The Littlest Bigfoot is a story of twelve-year-old Alice, a misfit who is ignored by her own family and shipped off to boarding school. She'd love a friend, and one day she rescues mysterious Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake. Millie, it turns out, is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods. Alice swears to protect Millie and her tribe, and the two girls try to find a place where they both fit in.

Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an atmosphere of uncertainty, as the magical world begins to face the fact that the evil wizard Voldemort is alive and active once again.