Etiquette & espionage (Finishing School #1)
About this book
Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than in 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.
Subjects
- boarding schools
- boarding schools, fiction
- children's fiction
- deception
- espionage
- etiquette
- etiquette, fiction
- fiction
- friendship
- great britain, history, 19th century, fiction
- history
- intrigue
- juvenile fiction
- new york times bestseller
- nyt:young-adult=2013-02-24
- private schools
- robots
- robots, fiction
- schools
- schools -- fiction
- schools, fiction
- school stories
- science fiction
- spies
- spies, fiction
- spy stories
- steampunk fiction
- truthfulness and falsehood