When it comes to Young Adult books, one of my favorite plot points is boarding schools. I love the comradery and found family that usually accompanies the boarding school setting. And then there’s the mischief and mayhem that the students usually find along the way.

Boarding schools make such a great setting because it gives a reason for not having parents to stop the children or teens from all of the mischief they get into. Teachers don’t have the same connection to the kids and tend to not pay as close attention, leaving plenty of space for them to sneak out at night, form secret organizations, solve crimes, or just fall in love.

Stand-alone boarding school books are fun, but series books bring deeper opportunities for continuing storylines. I love them both.

Here are the boarding school books on my shelves:

And They Were Roommates by Page Powars
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
But I Hate Him by Page Powars
Come As You Are by Dahlia Adler
The School for Good and Evil series by Soman Chainani

The Last Hope School for Magical Delinquents series by Nicki Pau Preto
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
Nobody in Particular by Sophie Gonzales

Hex Hall series by Rachel Hawkins
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner
XOXO by Axie Oh
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
Girls with Sharp Sticks series by Suzanne Young

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
Again Again by E. Lockhart
Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

St. Rosetta’s Academy series by Sandhya Menon
Slingshot by Mercedes Helnwein
RoseBlood by A.G. Howard
Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins