title: Isabel and the School for Sorceresses.
author: Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna
description: Svetlana Kovalkova-McKenna has studied Journalism and Broadcasting at Moscow State University in Russia and has a Liberal Arts Degree from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is a writer, an artist and a member of Nashville Artist Guild, mother of three, and a believer in fairytales.
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  ## Etiquette & Espionage
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Finishing School - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Gail Carriger
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to
  curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School._
  
  
  
  
  
  Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is
  more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper
  manners—and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious
  curtsy. Mrs. Temminick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady.
  So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for
  Young Ladies of Quality.
  
  
  But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have
  hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything.
  Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but they
  also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espio