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Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young

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Also by Suzanne Young:

Paradise Coast, March 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Girls with Rebel Souls, April 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Girls with Razor Hearts, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Girls with Razor Hearts, March 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Girls with Sharp Sticks, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
All in Pieces, November 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Epidemic, April 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
So Many Boys: A Naughty List Novel, June 2010
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GIRLS WITH SHARP STICKS
By: Suzanne Young

Girls with Sharp Sticks #1
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
March 2019
On Sale: March 19, 2019
400 pages
ISBN: 1534426132
EAN: 9781534426139
Kindle: B07GNV7ZL8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Young Adult

From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes the start of a thrilling, subversive new series about a girls-only boarding school with a terrifying secret and the friends who will stop at nothing to protect each other.

Some of the prettiest flowers have the sharpest thorns.

The Girls of Innovations Academy are beautiful and well-behaved—it says so on their report cards. Under the watchful gaze of their Guardian, they receive a well-rounded education that promises to make them better. Obedient girls, free from arrogance or defiance. Free from troublesome opinions or individual interests.

But the girls’ carefully controlled existence may not be quite as it appears. As Mena and her friends uncover the dark secrets of what’s actually happening there—and who they really are—the girls of Innovations Academy will learn to fight back.

Bringing the trademark plot twists and high-octane drama that made The Program a bestselling and award-winning series, Suzanne Young launches a new series that confronts some of today’s most pressing ethical questions.