The Founders' Circle

A hundred-year-old diary. A code almost no one alive can read. And the people who stole it need her to read it.

In October of her senior year, Maya Reyes is invited to Wyndham Hall in Vermont, for a weekend celebrating the founders of four old New England schools. She's going for a different reason. The school's elderly archivist has mailed her thirty pages of a diary written in 1927, in shorthand, by the caretaker's seventeen-year-old daughter, and promised to hand her the rest in person.

At ten o'clock on the first night, Maya climbs the clock tower to meet him. She finds him at the bottom of the stairs.

The school calls it an accident. The diary is gone. And the only person left at Wyndham Hall who can read what Josephine Ferris wrote a century ago is Maya.

With her roommate Priya, Theo, and a delegate from every founding school, Maya has three days to finish what Jo started in 1927, before the people who have kept the secret for a hundred years write its next page.

Learn 340 SAT words without a single flashcard

The Founders' Circle teaches high-value SAT vocabulary the way the Digital SAT tests it: in context.

• 340 words, all different from the other books in the series
• A Word Bank after every chapter with the definition and the exact sentence from the story
• 100 Digital SAT-style practice questions that mix all four reading types, like a real test section: words in context, rhetorical synthesis, text structure and purpose, and command of evidence
• An answer key that explains why the right answer is right and why the tempting wrong answer is wrong
• A complete glossary at the back

A complete story on its own

The final Maya Reyes mystery, and like every book in the series, it stands alone. No need to read the others first.

For teens getting ready for the SAT or PSAT, and for anyone who loves a dual-timeline mystery with a secret buried in the past.

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