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Ideas & Inspiration for Etiquette & Espionage

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It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage--in the politest possible ways, of course. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education.



Awards & Honors

  • New York Times and Locus bestseller

  • Nominated for the Sakura Medal (Japan – 2015)

  • Nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award (2013)

  • YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list (2014)

  • ALA’s Notable Books for Children List (2014)

  • Top 10 YALSA’s Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults List (2014)

  • Prix Elbakin Award (France- 2014).


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Create your own dirigible school art, robotic pup, Pickleman hat, or any other item from the book or your imagination that draws inspiration from steampunk, etiquette and espionage. Don’t forget to wear your strongest string of pearls and serve tea!