Prep (2005) (Quality Paperbacks Direct, by arrangement with Picador)Curtis Sittenfeld
Grade: A-
Genre: young adult
Sex scenes: mild
Source: own
TBR RBC 2015: A classic YA novel
When 15-year-old Lee Fiora is
offered a scholarship at prestigious boarding school Ault, her parents, though
puzzled about why she would choose this education, reluctantly allows their
eldest child to move away. But boarding school isn’t quite what Lee envisaged
after the glossy brochures and her preconceived ideas about what life and
classes would be like. Very much an outsider for her four years at Ault, Prep follows Lee as she establishes a
tenuous position in the school’s hierarchy, until one thoughtless mistake
throws her life into the balance …
