Books like The secret life of a boarding school brat by Amy Gordon

At Culver Creek Boarding School, Miles "Pudge" Halter leaves his uneventful home life to find adventure, only to be drawn into the complex world of Alaska Young – a brilliant, enigmatic student whose presence challenges and changes him forever.

On a private Massachusetts island, teen Cadence spends a summer with her cousins and a boy named Gat, only to wake up with amnesia and a tangled web of secrets, friendships, and loss that threaten to destroy the Liars.

Twelve‑year‑old Reuben discovers a magical watch that turns him invisible, setting him on a perilous adventure to outwit the villain The Smoke and protect his city.

A grieving teen learns to move forward when a sudden job at a catering business introduces her to new friends and unexpected challenges.

When the commended five siblings of the Vanderbeeker family learn they must leave their Harlem brownstone after Christmas, they set out to convince their reclusive landlord to keep them in place.

After Sara Crewe’s departure, life at Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies changes as new friends and challenges emerge for Lavender, Lottie, and Ermengarde. Can Ermengarde find happiness and rebuild her friendship with the missing Sara?

In California’s Central Valley, six friends form a Jane Austen book club, spending six months debating her novels while navigating marriages, affairs, and new love.

Five Alaska Native teens—Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq—navigate the challenges of a Catholic boarding school in the early 1960s, discovering friendship and belonging across diverse tribal backgrounds.

During a summer at a camp, twelve‑year‑old Derek, labeled a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, learns key lessons about life and secrets even as he sidesteps his assigned reading list.

A socially awkward teenager who has endured trauma and a parental divorce moves to a new high school, where he uses diary entries to confront and reinvent himself amid complex family dynamics and adolescent relationships.

Betty Gordon and Bob Henderson leave Oklahoma to return east to Washington. Betty is to attend Shadyside School, and Bob is to attend Salsette Military Academy, which is just across the lake from Shadyside. Betty's friends, Bobby, Louise, and Libbie Littell, and Betty's friends, Norma and Alice Guerin, are also to attend Betty's school. Betty and her friends quickly become settled into their new routine, but Norma and Alice Guerin sadly reveal that they may have to leave at Christmas. Their family has run out of money, in part because their grandmother's treasure is lost. It just so happens that the treasure was lost at the bottom of Indian Chasm, which is near Shadyside School. Over the years, various people have searched for the treasure, but no trace has ever been found. A spoiled, snobbish girl, Ada Nansen, learns of the financial problems of the Guerin family and belittles the girls at every opportunity. Betty gets into trouble as she valiantly defends the Guerins, and in the back of her mind is the thought that she might somehow locate the treasure of Indian Chasm and help her friends.

Ellie’s first term at the Royal Ballet School is a whirlwind of excitement, hard work, homesickness, a surprising performance opportunity, and fresh friendships, shadowed by the snide cruelty of Lara, a fellow student she met at audition.

In "The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau‑Banks," sophomore Frankie falls for senior Matthew Livingston, only to discover he keeps a secret about an all‑male society. Determined to stay in the crowd, Frankie infiltrates the group to add flair to their dull pranks.