'Who in their right mind wants to go to boarding school?' Meet Alice Stone, an adventure-seeking twelve-year old who wants to go, and not just to any school. Convincing her parents to send her to Kylemore Abbey School for Girls, Alice gets more than she bargains for when she stumbles upon Ruth Stoker. But Ruth isn't any ordinary student at Kylemore. So begins the mysterious bond between Ruth and Alice, as Alice settles into school in the bleak but beautiful heart of Connemara. Alice soon discovers that becoming a true K-Girl is not so easy, even if you have a ghost for a friend.

Jen meets the girls of Rocklands School, and they become interested in county dance — though a new girl, Rhoda, does tell Jen she's been doing things wrong! (Which she learns in the aforementioned book). Rhoda and one of the Rocklands' mistresses begin teaching the other girls. After Jen returns, and a few adventures, both the school and Jen send teams to a dance competition.

When Tess transfers to New England's premier boarding school, Thorn Abbey, she quickly falls for mysterious, brooding Max. Max is still mourning the death of his girlfriend, BeccaNand Becca's ghost is not quite ready to let him go.

Abbey Brooks, Gila High freshman-to-be, never thought a hellish day of shopping at the mall with her best friend, Kate, could change her life. But when she orders French fries from the flirtatious Hot Dog on a Stick Chick, she gets more than deep-fried potatoes. Abbey tries to ignore the weird, happy feeling in her gut, but that proves to be as impossible as avoiding the very insistent (and—rumor has it—very lesbian) players on Gila High’s girls’ basketball team. They want freakishly long-legged Abbey to try out, and Abbey doesn’t hate the idea. But Kate made Abbey pinky swear to avoid basketball and to keep away from the you- know-who girls on the team. Sometimes promises can’t be kept. And sometimes girls in uniform are impossible to resist.