416 p. (Gr. 9+) Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school, after being home-schooled all her life and feeling like a magnet for misfortune. What she doesn’t expect is…
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Dark Academia for Teens @ SCCLD
School is back in session with these tales to chill and thrill! Check out these Dark Academia stories for teens.
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- 336 p. (Gr. 9+) Andrew finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for his best friend Thomas, whose abusive parents have mysteriously vanished. Desperate to figure out what's wrong with Thomas, Andrew follows him into the off-limits…
- 330 p. (Gr. 9+) Amy's best friend Sarah and Sarah's boyfriend are brutally murdered in their dorm room, and now Amy is the prime suspect. To prove her innocence, she must team up with Liz, editor of the school newspaper and social outcast, who is…
- 418 p. (Gr. 9+) At prestigious Regent Academy, a student is murdered—but by the next day no one remembers him having ever existed, except for Douglas and the groundskeeper's son, Everett. In his determination to uncover the truth, Douglas awakens a…
- 512 p. (Gr. 9+) Blackwood Academy is a legendary school located at the fringes of the afterlife, where students are fated to spend the rest of eternity shepherding lost souls. Once a pupil enters the school’s arched gates, there is no way out……
- 384 p. (Gr. 9+) Cal wins a scholarship to an elite New England boarding school, but his classmates only see his cheap clothes and old iPhone. Things turn around when Cal learns about a secret society on campus—the key to becoming Essex royalty.
- 357 p. (Gr. 8+) Radcliffe Prep is the third most haunted school in the country, so Este enrolls with the hopes of finding her dead father but instead meets Mateo, who is (maybe) a real ghost—and an annoying one at that. When Mateo frames Este for…
- 368 p. (Gr. 8+) Within the walls of Wodebury Hall, reputation is everything. But when aspiring photographer Iyanu’s photos are stolen and splashed across the school the week before the Valentine’s Day Ball—each with a juicy secret written on it—the…
- 376 p. (Gr. 9+) Effy is given the dream chance to redesign the estate of her favorite author—but musty, decrepit Hiraeth Manor is an impossible task, and its residents are far from welcoming, including Preston, a stodgy young literature scholar…
- 324 p. (Gr. 9+) Luna’s twin sister Solina told Luna she was dropping out of Kingswood Academy, but when Luna refused to let her throw away her future, Solina disappeared—and twelve hours later, she was dead. There’s a reason Solina didn’t want to go…
- 374 p. (Gr. 9+) In spite of Prohibition, Gertrude, Clara, and Milly are determined to get a taste of freedom and liquor, but after sneaking out of the Washington Female Seminary to visit a speakeasy, they return to discover that their headmistress,…
- 400 p. (Gr. 9+) The students in Corbin College’s elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all—free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate, so when first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she…
- 381 p. (Gr. 9+) After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. But when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s…
- 452 p. (Gr. 9+) After the deadly incident that destroyed Page's only friendship at her old school, Page receives a scholarship offer from Agathion College, an elite boarding school folded deep within the moors of Scotland. But her perfect new school…
- 424 p. (Gr. 8+) Vivian is going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class—but by midnight, Viv has started a civil war. A lifeline is offered in the…
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