The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

Grades 7-12.
On her return to Alabaster Prep, her elite boarding school, Frankie attracts the attention of gorgeous Matthew, who draws her into his circle of popular seniors. When Frankie learns that Matthew is a member of the Loyal Order of the Basset Hounds, an all-male Alabaster secret society to which Frankie’s dad had once belonged, she assumes a false online identity. By impersonating Matthew's co-leader over e-mail, Frankie takes control of the Bassets, secretly engineering campus-wide pranks such as fastening bras on paintings of the school's founding fathers. She hopes the boys will be awed by her ingenuity and finally acknowledge her brains. This is a funny and mischievous “chick lit” novel with a twist.

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Grades 9-12.
Feared as a killer since her childhood, Lady Katsa uses her unusual Grace(superhuman gift) as an assassin in the service of her uncle, King Randa. She rebels by forming the Council, a sort of social justice league, and it is through this affiliation that she is drawn into a mystery involving the kidnapping of an elderly cross-kingdom prince, the secret Grace of the king of nearby Monsea, and the kidnapped royal's wicked cute, super-sensitive grandson Po. Po convinces Katsa that she can stand up to the brutal king and put her gift to better uses. When Katsa joins Po on a quest, she throws herself headlong into a rescue mission and finds romance, self-knowledge, and justice along the way.
If you have enjoyed Tamora Pierce, you will enjoy Graceling. Look for the sequel:

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