Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger

 Carriger, G. (2013).  Etiquette & Espionage. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Etiquette & Espionage is a steampunk novel.  Steampunk is a novel written in the past with futuristic steam machines.  Sophronia is a fourteen-year old who is giving her mother fits.  She would rather be a tomboy than learn the proper manners of young ladies. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle
Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.  Once she arrives, she learns quickly that this is not the finishing school that her mother thinks it is. They not only learn the fine arts of proper manners, but they also learn about death, diversion, and espionage. This book is appropriate for 13 years old and up.  This is the first book in the Finishing School series.  Books 2+3, Curtsies & Conspiracies and Waistcoats & Weaponry are the follow-up books to this series.