A School for Unusual Girls

Written by Kathleen Baldwin

Book #1 in the Stranje House series

A school for misfit girls hides a secret purpose in wartime England.

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352 pages· 92,270 words· Est. 8.5 hour read· HL680L· AR 5.1 · 14 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

In 1814, with Napoleon exiled and Britain at war, society families send daughters who don't fit in to Stranje House to be reformed. Georgiana Fitzwilliam arrives after nearly burning down her father's stables, and finds the school is really training girls to help defend England. Her invisible-ink experiments draw her into danger and toward a mysterious young man.

From the publisher

A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure completely original and totally engrossing. It's 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England's dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don't fit high society's constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies-plans that entangle the girls in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war. After accidentally setting her father's stables on fire while performing a scientific experiment, Miss Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent to Stranje House. But Georgie has no intention of being turned into a simpering, pudding-headed, marriageable miss. She plans to escape as soon as possible-until she meets Lord Sebastian Wyatt. Thrust together in a desperate mission to invent a new invisible ink for the English war effort, Georgie and Sebastian must find a way to work together without losing their heads-or their hearts.... Enticing from the first sentence. -New York Times Book Review

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