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Gr 6–9—Sophronia is far from the proper Victorian young lady she is expected to be. She would rather climb, take apart machinery, and cause a general ruckus than sit for tea and crumpets, making her a blight on her mother's reputation. She is enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality to learn proper decorum. But she soon discovers that its students are learning more than a proper curtsy. The school is a fl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In a parallel Victorian England (the same steampunk setting of Carriger's adult series the Parasol Protectorate, but several years earlier) rambunctious, curious fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick is recruited by Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. As Sophronia discovers en route when a band of airborne bandits known as flywaymen attacks her carriage and de...Log In or Sign Up to Read More