Description With revamped art and now in full color, One Year at Ellsmere is an endearing.and surprising.middle-grade friendship story from beloved author Faith Erin Hicks! Was boarding school supposed to be this hard? When studious thirteen-year-old Juniper wins a scholarship to the prestigious Ellsmere Academy, she expects to find a scholastic utopia. But living at Ellsmere is far from ideal: She is labeled a .special project,. Ellsmere's queen bee is out to destroy her, and it.s rumored that a mythical beast roams the forest next to the school.