I did watch Wild Wild West (the movie with Will Smith) back in the day, does that count? So THAT was my only exposure to Steampunk before this. This was my first experience with Steampunk!! Okay, I'm lying. and Spohronia and her friends are determined to find out what. The only person she doesn't fit with is is Monique, an older girl who takes an immediate dislike of Sophronia.
Sophronia fits right in with her fearlessness, resourcefulness, and rebellious nature. The school is actually on a floating ship and will prepare the girls to become skilled in fighting and defending themselves and other espionage. True, they still learn how to curtsy and dance, but this school is nothing like Sophronia imagined.
But this school isn't like other finishing schools. So when her mother sends her to Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality, she's expecting the worst. Set in the same world as the Parasol Protectorate, this YA series debut is filled with all the saucy adventure and droll humor Gail's legions of fans have come to adore.Sophronia would rather take things apart and climb than learn proper tea etiquette and act like a lady. Sophronia and her friends are in for a rousing first year's education. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but the also learn to deal out death, diversion, and espionage-in the politest possible ways, of course. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish.everything. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.īut Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. 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. Welcome to Finishing School.įourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time.
It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly.
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