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Books where Male Protagonist goes to a Private/Academy/Boarding School.
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Insignia is the first in a series that features an academy where teens are trained in VR combat. The main character is a boy, but the school is co-ed.
Moving this to requests for books in general.
Also: check out this thread.
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Also: check out this thread.
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The White DevilThe Magicians
The Horsemasters (has boys and girls)
The Fracking King: A Novel
A Separate Peace
The Catcher in the Rye (main character is expelled from prep school)
Then of course there's the Harry Potter series :)
Might also check this Goodreads list: Boarding school books
My favorites are To Serve Them All My Days
Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
A Separate Peace
Also check this list
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The guys in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" went to a private school before the whole... you know... Right? Didn't they?(I'm on mobile so i can't link, sorry)
'Spud' and its sequels by John van de Ruit. A recent series revolving around a boy sent to a South African boarding school in the early 1990s (the period where Apartheid was being dismantled). Very funny and thought provoking at times.
The 'Among the Hidden'series by Margaret Peterson Haddix. It's about a dystopian society where third children aren't allowed due to population. So they get sent to a school with aliases.
Young Bond Haven't read this series, but the premise is of a teenage James Bond doing investigations around his school.
The Summoner
The first book is mostly set in an academy, the following books (excluding the prequel) had the school setting less so.
The IslandThis Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall! The Bruno and Boots books are "younger YA"/MG, but they're wacky and fun.
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Books like this that I've read are "The Academy Series by chad leito"/"Evil Genius by catherine jinks"/"Zero Sight by B. Justn Shier"/"No Ordinary Hero by Dee J. Stone"/Psion Beta by Jacob Gowans"/"Kid Sensation by kevin hardman".
This is my favorite genre and i would like to find more book series like these.