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The Thoroughbreds

by Elin Hilderbrand

A charged senior year at Tiffin Academy

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A charged senior year at Tiffin Academy

September brings the sixth formers back to Tiffin Academy for college applications, parties, and a final season before graduation. The school’s social order is unsettled by fractures among friends and couples, a new student’s arrival, and the head of school’s struggle to save her position after a financial mistake. A question surrounding an email sent before a student’s death adds a mystery to the mix. The novel brings together the pressures of a boarding-school community with questions of loyalty, ambition, and growing up.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in ensemble stories set in New England boarding schools.
  • For readers drawn to friendship dramas involving social hierarchies, ambition, and secrets.
  • For readers who enjoy a coming-of-age story with a school-centered mystery.

Themes

Friendship and betrayalAmbition and social hierarchyGrowing upBoarding-school lifeSecrets and mystery

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Book overview

Class is back in session! New York Times bestselling authors of The Academy Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham return with The Thoroughbreds: what has more high-stakes drama, tension, and intrigue than senior year at a New England boarding school?

September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class--"sixth formers," in Tiffin-speak--a season of college applications and intense pressure, of partying hard and last hurrahs. As the chapel bells ring in students and staff, everyone has something to look forward to--but in the midst of the anticipation and excitement, nagging questions and dark secrets lurk beneath the surface...

Are Tiffin's It Couple, Charley and East, on the rocks? What sparked the rift between football star Dub and his best friend Hakeem? Will Pippa Sacks, posh day student, topple the delicate social hierarchy--or wreak even worse havoc? Can Head of School Audre Robinson save her job--and the school--after a disastrous financial mistake? And what was in that email attachment Cinnamon Peters sent to Dub before she died?

Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham answer these questions and more in The Thoroughbreds, a page-turning story about friendship, treachery, ambition, and growing up, at any age.
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