03235cam a2200433 i 4500 1464414594 TxAuBib 20240724120000.0 230516s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022056339 9781665922425 hardcover 1665922427 hardcover 9781665922432 paperback 1665922435 paperback (OCoLC)1347428722 TxAuBib rda Wellington, Joelle, author. Their vicious games / Joelle Wellington. First edition. New York, New York : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, [2023] 407 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy--a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted from her top choice Ivy League college and any other. Her only chance to regain the future she's sacrificed everything for is the Finish, a high-stakes contest sponsored by Edgewater's founding family in which twelve young, ambitious women with exceptional promise are selected to compete in three mysterious events: the Ride, the Raid, and the Royale. The winner will be granted entry into the fold of the Remington family, whose wealth and power can open any door. But when she arrives at the Finish, Adina quickly gets the feeling that something isn't quite right with both the Remingtons and her competition, and soon it becomes clear that this larger-than-life prize can only come at an even greater cost. Because the Finish's stakes aren't just make or break... they're life and death. Adina knows the deck is stacked against her--it always has been--so maybe the only way to survive their vicious games is for her to change the rules..."-- Book jacket. Eighteen-year-old Adina Walker, a scholarship student at a prestigious academy, faces the consequences of a single mistake and competes in a high-stakes contest hosted by the wealthy Remington family, where she uncovers unsettling truths about the sponsors and the contest's high stakes. Ages 14 and Up. Simon & Schuster. Grades 10-12. Simon & Schuster. 20240724. Contests Juvenile fiction. Social classes Juvenile fiction. Private schools Juvenile fiction. High schools Juvenile fiction. Young women Juvenile fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Teenage girls Juvenile fiction. Universities and colleges Admission Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction.