A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1)
Author: Libba Bray
Desc: In this debut gothic novel mysterious visions dark family secrets and a long-lost diary thrust Gemma and her classmates back into the horrors that followed her from India. (Ages 12+) It's 1895 and after the suicide of her mother 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence a proper boarding school in England. Lonely guilt-ridden and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?