Tag Archives: Eleanor Beresford

Fave Five: Queer MG/YA Set at Magic School

Gallowgate by K.R. Alexander (MG)

It Ends in Fire by Andrew Shvarts (YA)

Scholars and Sorcery series by Eleanor Beresford (YA)

A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien (YA)

My Name is Magic by Xan van Rooyen (YA)

Bonus: These are all prose novels, but for a YA graphic novel set at a magical culinary school, check out Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

Double Bonus: The anthology The Grimoire of Grave Fates ed. by Hanna Alkaf and Margaret Owens is set at a magic school and has plenty of queer content

 

Fave Five: Queer Boarding School YAs

 Without Annette by Jane B. Mason

Openly Straight and Honestly Ben by Bill Konigsburg

The Scholars and Sorcery series by Eleanor Beresford

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Girlhood by Cat Clarke

Bonus: Complementary and Acute by Ella Lyons is another one, separated out simply because it’s a novella under 50 pages

Double bonus: Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert isn’t set at boarding school, but does flash back to the bisexual MC’s relationship with her roommate there

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