The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, by Julie Berry

(Paperback, 368 pages, first published in 2014)

There's a murderer on the loose―but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's in this rollicking farce.

The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home―unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong.

Julie Berry's The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place is a smart, hilarious Victorian romp, full of outrageous plot twists, mistaken identities, and mysterious happenings.

Storyglory Cautions: Mysterious murders are part of the plot (two people have been poisoned, which may prevent the girls' boarding school from continuing to operate, to their dismay). But the story is light hearted, entertaining, and not sinister.

Ages: 12-16