The Academy · Book 1
The Academy
- Published
- 16 September 2025
- Pages
- 424
- ISBN-13
- 9780316567855
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Academy, co-written by Elin Hilderbrand and her daughter Shelby Cunningham, was published in 2025 at 424 pages and opens a planned two-book young-adult series set at Tiffin Academy, a New England prep school upended by an anonymous gossip app exposing every student's and staff member's secrets. It marks Hilderbrand's first genre pivot away from her more than two decades of Nantucket-set adult fiction, and her first published collaboration with her daughter.
Its place in The Academy
The Academy is book 1 in the The Academy series. See the full The Academy reading order.
After more than two decades of Nantucket-set adult fiction, Elin Hilderbrand's 2025 novel The Academy marks a deliberate change of both setting and audience: a young-adult boarding-school series co-written with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham. Set at Tiffin Academy, a New England prep school that jumps seventeen spots to become the country's #2-ranked boarding school just as an anonymous gossip app called Zip Zap starts exposing every student's and staff member's secrets, the book follows a rotating cast -- an…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316567855
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316597838
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529445237