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Secrets at Alfred Nobel Academy

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Goodreads Choice Awards finalist

    The book is described as a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards.

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  • Critical praise

    Shelf Awareness starred review

    A starred review praises the book as a beautifully written coming-of-age mystery.

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Secrets at Alfred Nobel Academy

After years of homeschooling, Sade Hussein arrives at a prestigious boarding school and is quickly drawn into the mystery of her missing roommate, Elizabeth. Suspicion falls on Sade, while the school’s social world—especially the group known as the Unholy Trinity—complicates her efforts to understand what happened. When another student is found dead, Sade and Elizabeth’s best friend, Baz, pursue answers amid rumors and concealed histories. The school setting brings together a missing-person investigation, a death, and Sade’s adjustment to high school, with questions of trust and belonging threaded through the suspense.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Young adult readers interested in boarding-school mysteries and suspense
  • Readers who enjoy stories combining a missing-person investigation with school friendships and social tensions
  • Readers seeking a coming-of-age story centered on a newcomer navigating high school

Themes

Secrets and suspicionBelonging and adjustmentFriendship and social dynamicsInvestigation

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Book overview

A girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets after her roommate disappears, in this "beautifully written coming-of-age mysterythat should appeal to fans of Tiffany Jackson, Kara Thomas, and Jumata Emill." (Shelf Awareness, starred review)

Finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards!


After being home-schooled, Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school. Misfortune has been a constant companion throughout her life, but even she doesn't expect her new roommate, Elizabeth, to disappear after Sade's first night. Or for people to think she had something to do with it.

With rumors swirling around her, Sade catches the attention of the girls known as the Unholy Trinity. Between learning more about them--especially Persephone, who Sade is inexplicably drawn to--and playing catchup in class, Sade already has so much on her plate. But the police are hardly looking into what happened to Elizabeth, so it's up to her and Elizabeth's best friend, Baz, to investigate.

And then a student is found dead.

As Sade and Baz try to make sense of it all, she realizes there's more to Alfred Nobel Academy and its students than she thought. Secrets lurk around every corner and beneath every surface...Secrets that rival even her own.

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