![]() ![]() ![]() “Etiquette & Espionage” shares the same setting as Ms. A semester of schemes and secrets culminates in a covert battle at Sophronia’s first fancy ball, in which all her newfound skills of fan-waving, eyelash-fluttering and villain-vanquishing will be put to the test. Like the vicious and cagey Monique, who seems to know something about the mysterious missing “prototype” that teachers, pirates and shadowy government agents alike are after. She makes friends all over the ship, including a resourceful sootie from the engine room called Soap, and Vieve, a junior mechanical genius. It turns out that the students won’t be the only ones being finished around here. The schedule includes classes on not just dancing and deportment, but also deception, poisonmaking and knifethrowing. Its staff includes a vampire and werewolf. ![]() ![]() To begin with, Mademoiselle Geraldine’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality is an airship, suspended under giant balloons above the foggy moors. It’s the school itself that defies expectation. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is bold, adventurous and, in her mother’s own words, a “cracking great bother.” It’s not really much of a surprise that she finds herself sent to finishing school. ![]()
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