The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma: Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home, unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their housekeeper, their neighbors, and potential suitors that nothing is wrong; maintaining this charade, however, will only get harder. An ALA Odyssey Honor title and named one of the Wall Street Journal's Best Children's Books of 2014, Julie Berry's novel for readers 10 to 14 is a smart, hilarious Victorian romp, full of outrageous plot twists, mistaken identities, and mysterious happenings.